Medicine and the Doctor in Word and Epigram

11/16/2016

that you have conferred upon me by electing me to this office carries with it an obligation that my … predecessors have discharged with such a diversity of subjects as to allow free rein to my imagination … obvious from words and facial expression of the friends to whom I confided my plan that they thought very …

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The New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society

11/16/2016

before you in substitution for my friend, John Fallon. Had he survived the year since last we met, he … me conclude by congratulating my professional brethren on the acquisition of a mode of mitigating … in the Journal; my grandfather had come up from Gloucester to report it before the Obstetrical Society of Boston …

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How Specialized Is a Specialty?

11/15/2016

, as it happens, my father, Dr. John C. Munro, received this same distinction forty-one years ago. It is not often … Dr. Harvey Cushing in my own field, — but none of their titles suggested any concern … with the specialty per se or its impact on general medicine and surgery. Knowing nothing but my own branch of surgery …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television

11/14/2016

to New York. I happen remotely to know something of this for my great-grandfather practised … may be able to ripen his own time—which I hasten to add is not a fancy of my own—is worthy of thought … placed at my disposition, of which twenty-five were vaccinated. A fortnight afterwards, the fifty sheep …

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Some Responsibilities of Medical Education

11/14/2016

. This experience is the reason for my choice of subject and presumably the basis of the Society's choice … of an orator. The organization and progress of medical education have been my chief preoccupation … for these fourteen years, and I welcome the opportunity to place on record my faith and my optimism regarding it …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

Annual Oration 1930 By Henry A. Christian, M.D. When my … and was proud of the honor. At once my thoughts turned to an annual discourse delivered almost one hundred years …, in my opinion, more skepticism needs to be exercised by practitioners than is the case at present …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia (PDF)

11/14/2016

of the honor be-stowed on me by the invitation to deliver this oration. As you are aware, my distinguished … of patients, at least in my experience. In growing experimental animals, carefully deprived of access … and simple to administer. To my mind, how- ever, it has the theoretical objection that all the hematopoietic …

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The Trend of Medicine In The Twentieth Century

11/14/2016

community and the department is called upon to help out that it steps in. My impression … is the more effective she becomes other things being equal. My prediction is that there will be no let-up … as a whole and appreciate the relationship of their environment to their medical problems. My guess …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television (PDF)

11/14/2016

happen remotely to know something of this for my great-grandfather practised in the Berk- shires till … is not a fancy of my own—is worthy of thought. One traces the conception of contagium vivum to early times … in a few words. Fifty sheep were placed at my dis- position, of which twenty-five were vaccinated …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon

11/14/2016

can remember removing a poultice from a carbuncle in my early days—an amateur poultice, to be sure … that would make us cringe. There are two treasured legends in my own family, one concerning my … to be the operators. As we have seen in the earlier reports, Bradford was one. My father was another. His …

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