Medicine's Responsibility in the Propagation of Poor Protoplasm

11/14/2016

death rate for cancer has shown some increase for each decade from 20 to 75 years over the past 35 years …. For example, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company reports that the cancer death rate for insured groups … death rate for all ages rose from 60 per 100,000 in 1900 to 130 per 100,000 in 1940, but it must …

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The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts

11/14/2016

of good ministers I resolved to carry it on". The death rate after inoculation in this 1721 epidemic had … where vaccination is not in fact universally compulsory. The death rate is at present in most countries …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress

11/14/2016

, travelling at the rate of ten miles a day. But the ice over which they travelled was drifting straight … towards the equator, at the rate of twelve miles a day, and yet no man among them would have known that he …. This extraordinary advance has been accomplished largely by a decrease in the mortality rate of infants and children …

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The Passing of Surgical Yeomen (PDF)

11/14/2016

to rate the quality of surgery done anywhere, resort must be had to figures. That is always a risky … statistics are too sensitive to warping to be nice measuring rods. The death rate, on the contrary, is, save …, the general sur- gical death rate at the hands of six master surgeons is 4.6 per cent; of thirty scattered …

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Some Remarks on Therapy for Anemia

11/14/2016

is inherently of such a kind or its rate of progress is so rapid that irradiation is not only useless …

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The Passing of Surgical Yeomen

11/14/2016

perhaps one or two, or even less a week, can remove goiters with the dexterity they do. In order to rate … statistics are too sensitive to warping to be nice measuring rods. The death rate, on the contrary, is, save …, the general surgical death rate at the hands of six master surgeons is 4.6 per cent; of thirty scattered …

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The Story of Smallpox in Massachusetts (PDF)

11/14/2016

to carry it on". The death rate after inoculation in this 1721 epidemic had been 2.4%, after natural …. Thedeath rate is at present in most countries low,but its virulence may at any time increase as it has …

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The Interdependence of Tropical Medicine and General Medicine (PDF)

11/14/2016

will be discussed later. No one in Massachusetts should question the propriety of rating malaria as a tropical … (inclusive) is compared with the rate for pneumonia during the same period, a still more remarkable con- … trast is revealed. The mortality rate for malaria in hospital is only 11.76 per 1,000 against 400.6 per …

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The Practitioner's Need of an Intelligent Skepticism (PDF)

11/14/2016

, while slowing this rate of flow brings improvement in the arthritis. So far, I know of no positive … this is not true, but at any rate there is enough ground for doubt to justify an enquiring skepticism …

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The Objectives of Medical Progress (PDF)

11/14/2016

towards the pole, in one of their Arctic expeditions, travelling at the rate of ten miles a day …. But the ice over which they travelled was drifting straight towards the equator, at the rate of twelve miles … accomplished largely by a decrease in the mortality rate of infants and children. The mortality rate of adults …

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