New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon (PDF)

11/14/2016

Boylston, about 1720, read or heard of direct inoculation with smallpox material. He must have been … by the general surgeons at the in- stigation of and under the direction of the neurolo- gists. However, even …

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Safe Management of Fractures

11/14/2016

infection. Nonunion may result from distraction, easily accomplished by direct traction on bone. Treatment …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism (PDF)

11/14/2016

profession can exert direct control and cure. To understand what Bigelow meant by self- limited diseases … is being tried usually exerts a very direct effect on the mind of the patient, and improvement may result … as to say that the entire antituberculosis campaign has been unproductive of any direct result …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress (PDF)

11/14/2016

, countercurrents, shoals, rapids, and occasional stagnant pools, is it pos- sible to determine the direction … to be sure are not lacking along the way, but the multiplicity of conflicting directions bewilders …, but the mechanized civilization of to-day is destroying its thousands and maiming its hundreds of thousands by direct …

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The Physical Examination of Apparently Healthy Individuals: Its Importance, Limitations and Opportunities

11/11/2016

its battle against mortality and morbidity, is, in addition, directing its attention towards … of physical examination, and particularly of repeated physical examinations, that directions for changes … important general directions. It is unsafe, however, to give individuals, either singly or as a group, any …

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The Relations of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the Public

11/11/2016

. Clinical knowledge and experience, the ability to inspire and direct students, even the ability to teach …, safer and more prompt than can be obtained by conservative means. Fortunately the direct responsibility … and for the most part abortive attempts to combine spiritual and medical healing have been the direct result …

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The Physician as Custodian of the Health of the People: But Who Shall Guard the Custodian Himself?

11/11/2016

by the physician, who nevertheless undertakes to prescribe and direct treatment and accepts a fee for so doing … will be the direct continuation of the present age of scientific medicine. It has passed successively through the age …

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The Physician as Custodian of the Health of the People: But Who Shall Guard the Custodian Himself? (PDF)

11/11/2016

'." Resolved, "That the Committee on Publications be directed to print a statement to that effect …, who neverthe- less undertakes to prescribe and direct treat- ment and accepts a fee for so doing …, in ability to prevent and cure disease and injury, but these years will be the direct continuation …

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The Relations of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the Public (PDF)

11/11/2016

in any future similar discourses." Resolved, "That the Committee on Publications be directed to print … and direct students, even the ability to teach have been made at times matters of secondary importance … be obtained by conservative means. ' Fortunately the direct responsibility for the teaching of medical …

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The Physical Examination of Apparently Healthy Individuals: Its Importance, Limitations and Opportunities (PDF)

11/11/2016

the Committee on Publications be directed to print a statement to that effect at the commencement of eachAnnual … and morbidity, is, in addition, directing its attention towards perfecting health. The present generation …, for example, can, of course, be given important general directions. It is unsafe, however, to give individuals …

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