From Cow-Path to State Road

11/14/2016

, And where Physicians had no work, Now finds them work enough. Now colds and coughs, Rhewms, and sore-throats …

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The Passing of Surgical Yeomen (PDF)

11/14/2016

yeomen not at all rarely find themselves of a sudden faced with most diffi- cult operations … yeomen have the edge. The finding was most pleasing, too, for surgery today suffers no more stinging … in the findings of their own eyes, ears and fingers, and put their trust rather in new-found guides who, though …

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Postgraduate Medical Education

11/14/2016

license, as practice begins to grow, may find the young doctor knowing less than he did when he started …, and the library of many a doctor should ultimately find its way to the hospital's shelves. There is a great deal … opportunity were being neglected. In order to find out exactly what the situation in this respect was, I wrote …

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The Passing of Surgical Yeomen

11/14/2016

the toll. On the other side of the sheet yeomen not at all rarely find themselves of a sudden faced … of the commonest abdominal ailments yeomen have the edge. The finding was most pleasing, too, for surgery today … in the findings of their own eyes, ears and fingers, and put their trust rather in new-found guides who, though …

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New England, Neurosurgery and the Neurosurgeon (PDF)

11/14/2016

written of the beginningsof medicine in New England, and through their writings we find something … of the colonies to Zabdiel Boylston's time we find cer- tain changes in the practice of our profession …, but he no longer played the dual role of med- ical adviser and minister to the soul. We find that medical …

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The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts (PDF)

11/14/2016

and insulted in public and in private and it is not to be wondered at that one finds allusions to "people who … of opponents at the be- ginning "yet finding my account in the encour- agement of good ministers I resolved …. Waterhouse finding, as he says, the evidence in support of the efficacy of vaccination too great …

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The Trend of Medicine In The Twentieth Century (PDF)

11/14/2016

take over many of the ac- tivities of his department but he finds that often they are not prepared … to elimi- nate preventable disease from the Commonwealth as well as helping to find the cause of disease … to look upon his medical problems from a broad point of view he may find him- self consulting some …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine (PDF)

11/14/2016

or strange, such as oroya fever, sodoku, or tsutsugamushi disease. It may be a surprise to find nearly two … of the lepra bacillus in 1874, Koch's finding of the cholera vibrio in 1883, Kitasato and Yersin's demonstra- …. Meanwhile, in a coun- try which is prospering as no country has ever prospered before, we find …

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The Physical Examination of Apparently Healthy Individuals: Its Importance, Limitations and Opportunities

11/11/2016

. Our standards of health have been erected entirely on the foundation of the physicians' findings … of organic disease, we find only a small percentage. In the figures which I have collected for students … examiners at Harvard University find little trouble with the teeth. The dental propaganda seems fairly …

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The Relations of the Massachusetts Medical Society to the Public

11/11/2016

facts. The increased interest in the microscopic findings in tumors that is coming about as a result … of observations made. And again in the absence of positive laboratory findings there has at times been a tendency … to findings which have but limited application. The viewpoint of the student is distorted. The practitioner …

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