The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 137Cupples, Upham & Company, 1897 |
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Page 274 - The American Pediatric Society is making a Collective Investigation of Infantile Scurvy as occurring in North America, and earnestly requests the cooperation of physicians, through their sending of reports of cases, whether these have already been published or not. No case will be used in such a way as to interfere with its subsequent publication by the observer. Blanks containing questions to be filled out will be furnished on application to any one of the committee. A final printed report of the...
Page 220 - We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. While we were doing it, that is in the eighteenth century, we did not allow it to affect our imaginations or in any degree to change our ways of thinking; nor have we even now ceased to think of ourselves as simply a race inhabiting an island off the northern coast of the Continent of Europe.
Page 22 - If the plant be an herb two or three feet high, it may be doubled to bring it within these measurements. If it possess root leaves, some of these should be included. Lay the specimen flat in a fold of newspaper and place this in a pile of newspapers, carpet felting, or some other form of paper which readily absorbs moisture, and place the pile in a dry place under a pressure of about twenty to thirty pounds, sufficient to keep the leaves from wrinkling as they dry.
Page 221 - In writing, therefore, such a natural history of diseases, every merely philosophical hypothesis should be set aside, and the manifest and natural phenomena, however minute, should be noted with the utmost exactness.
Page 226 - He was never seen to be transported with mirth, or dejected with sadness ; always cheerful but rarely merry, at any sensible rate; seldom heard to break a jest ; and when he did, he would be apt to blush at the levity of it : his gravity was natural, without affectation.
Page 220 - we owe the love of science, the love of art, the love of freedom — not science alone, art alone, or freedom alone, but these vitally correlated with one another and brought into organic union.
Page 221 - Laennec and Louis laid the foundation of modern clinical medicine ; Virchow and his pupils of scientific pathology ; while Pasteur and Koch have revolutionized the study of the causes of disease ; and yet, the modern history of the art of medicine could almost be written in its fulness from the records of the Anglo-Saxon race.
Page 45 - April, 1894, for the examination of candidates for appointment to the Medical Corps of the United States Army, to fill existing vacancies. Persons desiring to present themselves for examination by the board will make application to...
Page 138 - Diseases of the Eye. By EDWARD JACKSON, AM, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine...
Page 22 - Franks which will carry specimens, when of suitable size, together with descriptions and notes, free of postage through the mails, will be forwarded upon application. Should an object be too large for transmission by mail the sender is requested, before shipping it, to notify the Institution, in order that a proper authorization for its shipment may be made out. Respectfully, (Signed) SP LANGLEY, Secretary.