The Medical Gazette: A Weekly Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and the Collateral Sciences, Volume 3

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Bermingham & Company, 1878
 

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Page 246 - No person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery shall be allowed to disclose any information which he may have acquired in attending any patient in his professional character, and which information was necessary to enable him to prescribe for such patient as a physician, or to do any act for him as a surgeon: Prnrldcd, however.
Page 245 - Papers appropriate to the several sections in order to secure consideration and action, must be sent to the Secretary of the appropriate section at least one month before the meeting which is to act upon them. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to whom such papers are sent, to examine them with care, and, with the advice of the Chairman of his section, to determine the time and order of their presentation, and give due notice of the same.
Page 242 - Each State, county and district medical society entitled to representation shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Page 241 - The delegates shall receive their appointment from permanently organized State Medical Societies, and such County and District Medical Societies as are recognized by representation in their respective State Societies, and from the Medical Department of the Army and Navy of the United States.
Page 122 - ... the lower part of the abdomen and upper part of the thigh, and was for over a year under treatment, with every likely remedy, including change to the seaside.
Page 188 - ... and it will most accurately prognosticate the weather. If the weather is to be fine, the leech lies motionless at the bottom of the glass and coiled together in a spiral form ; if rain may be expected, it will creep up to the top of its lodgings and remain there till the weather is settled ; if we are to have wind, it will move through its habitation with amazing swiftness, and seldom goes to rest till it begins to blow hard...
Page 242 - The chairmen of the several Sections shall prepare and read in the general sessions of the Association, papers on the advances an.i discoveries of the past year in the branches of science included in their respective Sections; the reading of such papers not to occupy longer than forty minutes for each.
Page 364 - Resolved, That in the opinion of this Association medical men ought to have a voice in the construction and location of public school buildings ; in the question as to the age at which children should be admitted, the hours of study, and the general management of these institutions ; and to this end it is believed to be necessary that one or more intelligent physicians should be placed upon Boards of Education, Boards of Trustees, and upon other similar boards having the control of public education...
Page 244 - SEC. 5. The Committee on Applications shall consist of five members. It shall be the duty of this committee to examine and report upon all applications for aid, and to ascertain and report whether the amount of any aid granted should be increased, reduced, or discontinued. ARTICLE V APPLICATION FOR AID All applications for aid must be made in writing on such forms as shall be provided by the Managers.
Page 364 - Physiology, was then introduced and delivered an able, exhaustive and interesting address. He noticed some of the important advances made in Practical Medicine, Physiology and Materia Medica, and also discussed at length the climatic treatment of pulmonary phthisis.

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