The New England Journal of Medicine and the Massachusetts Medical Society

11/16/2016

dollars a year; in the succeeding fifty-four years three dollars have been added to the rate … of cowpox — or the Reverend Stephen Hales, who in the same century measured the blood pressure and the rate …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television

11/14/2016

modern astronomers as to whether the universe is expanding at such a rate it will some day wholly … are in the process of formation. We might well ask whether Medicine too is not expanding at such a rate it is likely …. At this rate, with a fivefold increase every fifty years, by the time of our two hundredth Greater Boston …

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Some Responsibilities of Medical Education

11/14/2016

achieved. At any rate, a systematic study of the factors that lead men to enter or to refrain from entering …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism

11/14/2016

through the gut in many arthritis patients, while slowing this rate of flow brings improvement … in spite of all of this. Perhaps this is not true, but at any rate there is enough ground for doubt …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia (PDF)

11/14/2016

, however, that in acute leukemias the process is inherently of such a kind or its rate of progress is so …

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One Hundred and Fifty Years — From Tallow-Dip to Television (PDF)

11/14/2016

. ing at such a rate it will some day wholly dis- integrate, or whether it is constantly regenerat- ing … whether Medicine too is not expanding at such a rate it is likely to disintegrate and whether something … 1,500,000 are crowded in your metropolitan area. At this rate, with a five-fold increase every fifty …

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The Medical Society and Maternal Mortality

11/14/2016

, our Mortality Statistics and Mortality Rates are evolved. Under strict interpretation of the rules … source of discrepancy is to be found in the manner in which mortality rates are expressed. For example … rates were calculated in New York City per 1,000 live births while for the State they were calculated …

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Postgraduate Medical Education (PDF)

11/14/2016

hundred and fifty cases of hypertrophie arthritis, one-third showed basal metabolic rates below minus 15 … in excess in myxedema as con-trasted with its normal level in other conditions causing low metabolic rates …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine

11/14/2016

the propriety of rating malaria as a tropical disease, for although it is common in subtropical latitudes … cases of malaria admitted to hospitals in the years 1915 to 1925 (inclusive) is compared with the rate … for pneumonia during the same period, a still more remarkable contrast is revealed. The mortality rate …

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The Medical Society and Maternal Mortality (PDF)

11/14/2016

and towns. From the data thus obtained, our Mortality Statistics and Mortality Rates are evolved. Under … in the manner in which mortality rates are ex- pressed. For example, the Committee of the New York Academy … of Medicine for the study of Maternal Mortality found that birth and death rates were calculated in New York …

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