The New England Medical Gazette, Volume 39

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Medical gazettee pub., 1904
 

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Page 530 - A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, for the use of Students and Practitioners. By James Nevins Hyde, AM, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases in Rush Medical College, Chicago.
Page 569 - REFRACTION AND How TO REFRACT. Including Sections on Optics, Retinoscopy, the Fitting of Spectacles and Eye-Glasses, etc. By James Thorington, AM, MD, Adjunct Professor of Ophthalmology in the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine ; Assistant Surgeon at Wills...
Page 471 - ... everywhere are called on for advice and counsel. Public sentiment is turning to medical men for authoritative facts and conclusions to enable them to realize the causes, means of prevention and cure of this evil. This new society comes to meet this want by enlisting medical men as members and stimulating new studies and researches from a broader and more scientific point of view. As a medical and hygienic topic the alcoholic problem has an intense personal interest, not only to every physician,...
Page 4 - In making this comparison the more prominent, uncommon and peculiar (or characteristic) features of the case are especially and almost exclusively considered and noted; for these in particular should bear the closest similitude to the symptoms of the desired medicine, if that is to accomplish the cure.
Page 480 - Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing. By EDWARD P. DAVIS, AM, MD, Professor of Obstetrics in the Jefferson Medical College and Philadelphia Polyclinic ; Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Philadelphia Hospital.
Page 4 - The more general and indefinite symptoms, such as want of appetite, headache, weakness restless sleep, distress, etc.. unless more clearly defined, deserve but little notice on account of their vagueness, and also because generalities of this kind are common to every disease, and to almost every drug.
Page 470 - June 8, 1904, by the union of the American Association for the Study of Inebriety and the Medical Temperance Association.
Page 470 - Third, to correct the present empirical treatment of these diseases by secret drugs and so-called specifics and to secure legislation, prohibiting the sale of nostrums claiming to be absolute cures containing dangerous poisons. Fourth, to encourage special legislation for the care, control and medical treatment of spirit and drug takers. The alcoholic problem and the diseases which center and spring from it are becoming more prominent and its medical and hygienic importance have assumed such proportions...
Page 294 - The accepted definition of a homoeopathic physician is "one who adds to his knowledge of medicine a special knowledge of homoeopathic therapeutics and observes the law of similia. All that pertains to the great field of medical learning is his by tradition, by inheritance, by right.
Page 86 - With all our varied instruments of precision, useful as they are, nothing can replace the watchful eye, the alert ear, the tactful finger, and the logical mind which correlates the facts obtained through all these avenues of information and so reaches an exact diagnosis, institutes a correct treatment, and is rewarded by a happy result.

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