Trends in Medical Education

3/29/2017

for emotional instability and the high rate of ineffectives having "nonorganic" disease brought home … a deeper involvement with society and social problems: ... For example, in the middle years the death rate … from heart disease per 100,000 population is 485.2 as compared with a rate of 2,958.5 …

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Swinging Copy and Sober Science

3/29/2017

by revolutionary demands and ideas. Which will be rated, 100 years hence, as brilliant advances, which … therapeutic efficacy in pharyngitis caused by beta-hemolytic streptococcus. The committee demurred. It rated …

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The Physician in a Changing Social Structure

3/29/2017

at the rate of over 2000 per year; the numbers emigrating who do not obtain a license are unknown …

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Thoughts on Future Contributions of Virology to Medicine

3/29/2017

, as in infection of chicken cells with Rous sarcoma virus, virus units are completed, but the rate … and division. Both these situations, then, incomplete replication of viral subunits and suppression of the rate …, or an even higher, level, and the rate of antibody decay retarded by repeated administration of antigen after …

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The Effects of Hemorrhage on Body Composition

3/29/2017

criterion. Rates and Volumes of Plasma-Volume Refill The curve of plasma-volume refill is a slope … of decreasing magnitude convex upward. The initial rates of refill, during the first two hours, range as high … as 90 to 120 ml. per hour (1.5 to 2.0 ml. per minute). The fastest maintained rates are those during …

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On Caring for the Patient with Cancer

3/29/2017

in a single focus, growing steadily at a rate fixed for that particular cancer, reaching a certain size … the Canadian Cancer Registry showing by the actuarial method that the rate of dying is constant at five, 10 …

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Youth in Protest — Overtones for Medicine

3/29/2017

are such changes frequent, but their rate is continuously increasing. Communication through the mass media is now …

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The Involuntary Plight of the Voluntary Hospital

3/28/2017

, something can be learned from the management of proprietary hospitals. Generally speaking, their rates …. To be sure, most of the patients have common ailments, and pay full rates. There is no teaching or research … departments by hospitalizing Workmen's Compensation and welfare cases at rates below those charged …

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The Massachusetts Medical Society and the Organization of Public-Health Services — Retrospect and Prospect

3/28/2017

that grew out of the Civil War — spoke eloquently, too. Diphtheria reached a fearsome peak; the death rate … this program reduced the tuberculosis death rate of that community from 121 to 38 per 100,000 population …

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Reflections on the Challenge to the Medical Profession in India

3/28/2017

in the rate at which basic education and an elevation of the standards of living can be introduced. This rate … for the disease of poverty. Measures to reduce the birth rate have been instituted, and there are neither … and acceptable method. Actually, the rate of population growth in India is not unusual considering what is going …

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