The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession

8/8/2016

several spheres of practical life. We have turned aside, for the purposes of this meeting, from the toils … as a practical man, having with yourselves a common experience. I come from real life to meet medical … practitioners, with whom also, as with myself, “life is real, life is earnest.” You will not, therefore …

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The Principles and Objects of the Massachusetts Medical Society

8/8/2016

biography.” I believe that almost every man, after he has passed the meridian of life, finds his true level …, true to principle. What man of commonsense would knowingly trust his life one moment in the hands … facts on medical subjects up to the end of the last century, we can form some idea of the rapid change …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation

8/8/2016

course of treatment,” as it is called — lies the chief end and aim of their calling. So thoroughly … at last does this idea permeate the very life and thought of daily routine of our profession … existence), life has been subject to dangers, disorders and diseases, such as beset it in these latter days …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation (pdf)

8/8/2016

unsatisfac tory experience ; to some, a whole life of disappoint ment ending in utter scepticism … " a course of treat ment," as it is called—lies the chief end and aim of their calling. So thoroughly … at last does this idea permeate the very life and thought of daily routine of our profession …

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Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science

8/8/2016

the kindly, mutually dependent life of the country, can tell how near the physician who is the main reliance … and life in the service of humanity. I have great pleasure in referring to this excellent movement, which … to the rules of their craft, and asking no questions of the past or of the future, or of the aim and end …

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The Reality and Certainty of Medicine (pdf)

8/8/2016

, and that inward peace which be longs to an honest man and good physician looking back upon a well-spent life …. Others were in the midst of life and usefulness. Others again, full of hope and high aspirations … geon who ends his career in the faithful discharge of duty deserves and ever will receive …

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The Physician and Surgeon in War (pdf)

8/8/2016

of Dcsgenettes to the French surgeon-in-chief, that it was the duty of the physician to save life …, for the practice of their profession in civil rather than in military life, now that the hazards of war … inexperienced of our number will be first called upon to stay the ebbing tide of life, and, on the spur …

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Medical Jurisprudence (pdf)

8/8/2016

; to dwell upon the varied scenes of their professional life ; to sympathize in each other's sorrows … wounded by insolent interrogatories and unkind insinuations, long after every end of justice has … the most important means, of fulfilling the ends of justice, — of removing suspicions, which may have …

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Medical Jurisprudence

8/8/2016

or to strengthen their friendships; to dwell upon the varied scenes of their professional life; to sympathize … every end of justice has been answered by his testimony. Or, should he be so fortunate as to pass … important means, of fulfilling the ends of justice,—of removing suspicions, which may have existed …

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The Physician and Surgeon in War

8/8/2016

, that it was the duty of the physician to save life, not to destroy, undoubtedly occurred to the mind of every gentleman … and surgeons have been, for the practice of their profession in civil rather than in military life, now … and most inexperienced of our number will be first called upon to stay the ebbing tide of life, and …

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