The Passing of Surgical Yeomen

11/14/2016

the toll. On the other side of the sheet yeomen not at all rarely find themselves of a sudden faced … of the commonest abdominal ailments yeomen have the edge. The finding was most pleasing, too, for surgery today … in the findings of their own eyes, ears and fingers, and put their trust rather in new-found guides who, though …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon (PDF)

11/14/2016

written of the beginningsof medicine in New England, and through their writings we find something … of the colonies to Zabdiel Boylston's time we find cer- tain changes in the practice of our profession …, but he no longer played the dual role of med- ical adviser and minister to the soul. We find that medical …

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The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts (PDF)

11/14/2016

and insulted in public and in private and it is not to be wondered at that one finds allusions to "people who … of opponents at the be- ginning "yet finding my account in the encour- agement of good ministers I resolved …. Waterhouse finding, as he says, the evidence in support of the efficacy of vaccination too great …

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The Trend of Medicine In The Twentieth Century (PDF)

11/14/2016

take over many of the ac- tivities of his department but he finds that often they are not prepared … to elimi- nate preventable disease from the Commonwealth as well as helping to find the cause of disease … to look upon his medical problems from a broad point of view he may find him- self consulting some …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine (PDF)

11/14/2016

or strange, such as oroya fever, sodoku, or tsutsugamushi disease. It may be a surprise to find nearly two … of the lepra bacillus in 1874, Koch's finding of the cholera vibrio in 1883, Kitasato and Yersin's demonstra- …. Meanwhile, in a coun- try which is prospering as no country has ever prospered before, we find …

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

11/11/2016

. Our standards of health have been erected entirely on the foundation of the physicians' findings … of organic disease, we find only a small percentage. In the figures which I have collected for students … examiners at Harvard University find little trouble with the teeth. The dental propaganda seems fairly …

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The Relations of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the Public

11/11/2016

facts. The increased interest in the microscopic findings in tumors that is coming about as a result … of observations made. And again in the absence of positive laboratory findings there has at times been a tendency … to findings which have but limited application. The viewpoint of the student is distorted. The practitioner …

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

11/11/2016

that the bewildered layman finds that his family has been attended by a baker's dozen of specialists in order to care … find out just what the surgeon did. A settled policy of obtaining the cooperation of patients by making …

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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

into such minute areas that the bewildered layman finds that his family has been attended by a baker's dozen … state that they never could find out just what ¡the surgeon did. A settled policy of obtaining …

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

11/11/2016

findings there has at times been a tendency to assert that there is no organic disease in cases in which … the persuasive power of an investigator leads others as well as himself to attach undue weight to findings which … and obscure disease, but the value of the findings must always depend upon the assembling of all the facts …

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