The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession

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have done. How vain and preposterous is the slander, that we keep the knowledge of our profession … of these I have already referred, when speaking of the mischief done to our profession by quacks, and by men …. And it is the province of our profession to live them down in the future, as it has done in the past. But there are yet …

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The Principles and Objects of the Massachusetts Medical Society

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of its founders? Has it done all it could do to raise the standard of medical education? Has it been … prosperity and usefulness. Before we inquire what the Society has done, let us ask, What are the principles … for the support of the Society against all the attacks of its enemies. What has the Society done to carry out …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation

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determines the question of right, and that whatever has been done by Him, who rendereth no account to man … as those of health. This done, the Profession will acquire a dignity before unknown to it …

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

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of fact always determines the question of right, and that whatever has been done by Him, who rendereth … and inflexible as those of health. This done, the Profession will acquire a dignity be fore unknown …

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Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science

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the mischief which Hippocrates has done, by first marking Nature with his name and afterwards letting her loose … retirement had been twenty years sooner, and the opinion that no man had done so much to destroy …, as is constantly done by that class of incompetent observers who find their “golden tooth” in the fabulous effects …

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Rational Medicine: The Past and Present; Its True Relations to Specialists, to the Partisans of Exclusive Systems, and to Empirics

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, and a profound sense of the compliment paid me by its Board of Councillors, I shall do as I have ever done … for French surgery, what Hunter had done for the whole science in Britain, and the genius of his illustrious … that many of them have done good service to medicine, in spite of their theories. The 19th century opens …

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Medical Jurisprudence (pdf)

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paid the cost. Our ancient legislators have merely done a plain and very simple duty … years in this department in Massachusetts: much still re mains to be done by the individual …, and the treatment of the insane, much yet remains to be done to perfect our system of medical police …

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Medical Jurisprudence

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of reaping the advantage, while we have paid the cost. Our ancient legislators have merely done a plain … in Massachusetts: much still remains to be done by the individual or united efforts of the Fellows of this Society … the smallpox, the burial of the dead, and the treatment of the insane, much yet remains to be done to perfect …

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The Progress of Medical Science (pdf)

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, should be in abeyance. This being done, the clear and natu ral phenomena of the disease should …

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Search Out the Secrets of Nature

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they have done for the benefit of the College, with an exhortation to men to imitate; and an exhortation …, is seldom done. The pupil conceives the idea that the vocation of his life is to ferret out and contend … powers, than has physiology. Yet, to show how much an application of physical laws has done for medicine …

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