Modern Medicine: Its Need and Its Tendency (pdf)

8/9/2016

MEDICINE : experienced. The present period in its history, as Dr. Aitken has truly said, " is one … during the last half century, it may safely .be said, that as much has been accom plished as could … NEED AND ITS TENDENCY. 161 4. What shall be said of Mercury ? In its varied forms, especially …

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Organic and Parallel Relation of Some of the Truths and Errors of Christianity and Medical Science

8/9/2016

, in a most felicitious after-dinner speech, in Music Hall, the reverend chaplain of the day said …, especially the country or frontier physician. There is, in fact, said he, no life more self-sacrificing, none … to an idea, in this way, said he, has a historical origin, about which there can be no question …

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Modern Medicine: Its Need and Its Tendency

8/9/2016

history, as Dr. Aitken has truly said, “is one of probation as well as of progress.” While, on the one … of our profession in past times, and especially during the last half century, it may safely be said …, the propriety of continuing to employ it in such cases becomes, at least, questionable. 4. What shall be said …

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Massachusetts Medical Society States Support of Attorney General’s Assault Weapons Ban

8/9/2016

. James S. Gessner, M.D., in separate letters to the state’s highest elected officials, said …

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Search Out the Secrets of Nature (pdf)

8/8/2016

remedy for every disease, may not be far from the truth. But it is also said, that, though this may …, and prematurely wearing them out by excess of action. It is said to be thus with no other people besides … SECRETS OF NATURE. 37 "life." Indeed, one of the principal effects of life was said …

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Morbid Anatomy

8/8/2016

in every country where medical science can be said to exist; and I have thought, without any feeling …, it was said, was a new mode of observation by which we might decide whether a structure was cancerous or not …. Cells of a certain specific character were said to exist in growths of this nature, that were …

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The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession (pdf)

8/8/2016

. Yes, we have duties to perform. I need not have said this to you, because all medical men who … pass sea and land for a useless thing that is puffed in the newspapers, merely because it is said …, vexatious ; and they hurt us, as eels are hurt by being skinned alive, until, as the old woman said …

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The Reality and Certainty of Medicine

8/8/2016

not by the lamp of experience, but who, as has been said, bear about a dark lantern of theory, bright indeed … had supposed them to be. ‘Well, then,’ said the philosopher, ‘have the goodness to tell me what …, as appeared by the “log-books,” duly vouched. Insurance offices are said to have looked upon it with favor …

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The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession

8/8/2016

of the Medical Profession. Yes, we have duties to perform. I need not have said this to you, because all medical … it is said to possess some mysterious healing quality, unknown to anybody but the ignorant pretender …, vexatious; and they hurt us, as eels are hurt by being skinned alive, until, as the old woman said, “They …

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The Principles and Objects of the Massachusetts Medical Society

8/8/2016

of this Society to be at the present time. In what I have said, I may not have brought my ideas before you …

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