The Character and Qualifications of the Good Physician

6/9/2016

. My pen is unskilled in all arts of composition, save the com-position of prescriptions (and perhaps … has but little in that). I should despair, therefore, had I to rely solely on my own ability … in the exercise and discharge of this profession. I have never returned from one of these meetings to my …

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On Irritation of the Nerves

6/9/2016

counsellor, in which capacity it has been my good fortune to have enjoyed a few hours of instructive … each of my audience able to sift out and save the former, and to prevent the latter from disseminating … by Marshall Hall, agrees best with my ideas of what is otherwise called the muscular tissue,—the extremities …

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

6/9/2016

infringed in this Commonwealth; I wish it were in my power to add, never by a member of this Society …. Nevertheless, as it was my privilege at one period to attend on his instructions, it may not be improper …

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On the Practical Method of Ventilating Buildings

6/9/2016

of the assembled profession of a great commonwealth. I feel that the highest ambition which fills my mind …, in some measure, the representatives, as well as the protectors, may not be unbenefited by my …, — I have selected as the topic of my address, the directly practical or mechanical applications …

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On Some of the Diseases of the Knee-Joint

6/9/2016

be either new or instructive to those whom I have the honor to address. But it may be in my power to suggest … on some of the morbid affections of the knee-joint. It will, of course, be in my power to make only a few … its effects. My own experience has taught me, even when issues are to be made about the knee-joint …

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The Factory System in its Hygienic Relations

6/9/2016

country, in the confidence and respect of the community, the teachers of my youth, the counsellors of my … riper years. I need not say, then, that I meet all of you with a distrust of my ability to do justice … upon the other side of the water, and the weight of its accompanying evidence, may be estimated by my …

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Condition and Prospects of the Medical Profession

6/9/2016

and Gentlemen, It was my original purpose, in addressing this Society to-day, to have fallen in with the general …, through the whole of my medical life, and under circumstances which have generally presented the strongest … as useless those classical acquirements which form so large a part of a liberal education. But, for my own …

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Pulmonary Consumption, Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment

6/9/2016

upon me, nor of the disproportion of my limited knowledge and capacity, under the most favorable … consequences for more than two months, with inflammation and disease of my eyes at least four months …, had my health permitted. More than once, within the last five months, have I decided that I ought …

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On Fractures

6/9/2016

of us, on the most common practical topics are worthy of attention. I have endeavored to arrange my …;” and I hope my hearers will not be startled, if I should imitate this celebrated English surgeon … the skin, and even into the substance of adjacent bodies. A seaman was brought under my care, who …

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Medical Education

6/9/2016

and discharge the duties which have called us now to assemble. In my efforts this day to respond to your call … and responsible profession. Says the country doctor, “On my return home, after having gone the rounds …, and witnessed scenes of the most thrilling interest, ongoing into my office I found a person there who had been …

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