James Thacher, M.D., of Plymouth, Mass.

8/11/2016

your attention to the subject of my paper, — James Thacher, M.D., of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Dr … have no servants in my family, and I had rather be chained to a galley oar than wait upon you myself … in my professional pursuits, motives of patriotism and private interest prompted me to hazard my future …

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The Relation of Pathology to Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

be due to the persistence of the primaryshock ; but in my experience it haB been a common observation … of the originalexciting cause. I might cite numerous illustrations of this from my case-book. Still another phenomenon …

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The Advancement of Medicine by Research (pdf)

8/11/2016

that the attempt will be repeated during the next session of the Legislature, may serve as my excuse for asking you … to listen to Ambrose Parti's description of an amputation as performed in his time : " I observed my masters …. . . . Let me illus- trate my argument by showing you the two processes at work in identical provinces …

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Realism in Medicine (pdf)

8/11/2016

invariably found that my idea was false." Here is the testimony of an honest man, striving after … said: " God is my witness, and men are not ignorant of it, that I have labored more than forty … striven so hard to attain my end, that the ancients have nought wherein to excel us, save the discovery …

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An Epoch in Medicine in an Age of Delusion (pdf)

8/11/2016

mistake me and deny me physic when I am sick ; for my part I am well per- suaded of physic. 1 can …, physicians or not? But there is something still more to my purpose in this unique book. Burton enumerates … and omega of my practice." Such a method may have much to do with the art of healing the sick, but it has …

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The Medical Problems of the Day

8/10/2016

, embracing several distinct nationalities, my attention was early called to this difference in birth-rate …

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The Prevention of the Spread of Typhoid Fever (pdf)

8/10/2016

measures are founded. I have chosen the subject, therefore, as the theme of my remarks under … the influence of a strong impression, derived from all the evidence I have at my command, that the proposed … ever yet, to my knowledge, been overtaken by such a calamity as that which befell, in 1872, the little …

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Undercurrents of Modern Medicine

8/10/2016

of the obstetrician. The increasing frequency of non-union in fractures, if I can trust my own observation, shows …

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State and Preventive Medicine in Massachusetts (pdf)

8/10/2016

as State Medicine. What these now are and should become, will be my topic for the short time during … to a communication upon this subject Jenner replied:— "I never was so sanguine in my hopes of seeing … the plague extinguished by vaccine inoculation as some of my friends were I will just drop a hint …

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Undercurrents of Modern Medicine (pdf)

8/10/2016

trust my own observation, shows that they are not so skilfully treated as formerly. The acne …

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