Search Out the Secrets of Nature

8/8/2016

. These are, for the most part, laws which relate to mere matter; but the laws of life, those relating … our researches are to be made subservient to our calling as medical men; namely, to prolong the life …. Though, strictly speaking, physiology is termed the science of life, yet, as ordinarily understood …

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Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science (pdf)

8/8/2016

ent life of the country, can tell how near the phy sician who is the main reliance in sickness … brothers who wear out health and life in the service of humanity. I have great pleasure in re ferring … 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 Principles and Objects of the Massachusetts Medical Society (pdf)

8/8/2016

dian of life, finds his true level in society. His principles, the secret or avowed motives which … a true man, true to principle. What man of common sense would knowingly trust his life one moment … subjects up to the end of the last century, we can form some idea of the rapid change. Since …

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Vital Signs Summer 2016 (pdf)

6/20/2016

, as one of her role models. At the end of the day, she said, he would call all the patients he … in their last year of life — and health care proxy forms available. Proxy forms can be found at www.massmed … New PMP Slated to Launch at the End of the Month BY BRENDAN ABEL MMS ASSISTANT COUNSEL …

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Remarks on the Pathology of the Typhoid Fever of New England

6/13/2016

physical appearances during life, and as constantly exhibit certain uniform changes of structure after … during life, is not of much value as a pathognomonic sign. This organ is occasionally felt below the ribs … life, with constancy enough to be often available as a pathognomonic sign; yet, since it is rarely …

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A Discourse on Mental Philosophy as Connected with Mental Disease

6/9/2016

but for that no action could attend, And but for this were active to no end.” “On life's vast ocean diversely we sail … clearly marked group or assemblage, as the phenomena, which are common to vegetable and animal life …. There are mental deviations, however, which relate to the ordinary affairs of life and the daily experience of all …

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The Character and Qualifications of the Good Physician

6/9/2016

to greater fidelity and industry, and thus indirectly, in the end, help to make us better physicians … dependencies and reciprocal obligations which runs through all the various callings of life, forming them all …, the key to the gate of life. He cannot always stay the progress of disease, nor roll back the approaching …

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Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress of the Massachusetts Medical Society

6/9/2016

. Have the ends of the institution been attained? and have the reasonable expectations of the Legislature … to lengthen the mean term of human life, and to relieve an untold amount of human suffering. It is only about …, with one exception, they were all gentlemen far advanced in life, who had retired from the active duties …

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On the Practical Method of Ventilating Buildings

6/9/2016

in the reach of a single individual’s whole life, however prolonged, that to him can be expected to fall … in the support of life, and can hardly be over-estimated. But, believing with Mr. Brande, and other distinguished … of the multiform diseases, connected with that deterioration of the medium of life, which it is the object …

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On Some of the Diseases of the Knee-Joint

6/9/2016

of limb or life. From the great degree of obscurity that not unfrequently attends some of these cases … to ulcerate, and, in a great majority of such cases, amputation is the only means we have of saving the life … penetrates the joint, will sometimes be followed by the most disastrous consequences. If life and limb …

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