The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 15J. McCafferty, 1859 |
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Page 138 - The Science and Art of Surgery ; being a Treatise on Surgical Injuries, Diseases, and Operations. By JOHN ERIC ERICHSEN, Senior Surgeon to University College Hospital, and Holme Professor of Clinical Surgery in University College, London.
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Page 445 - H. DOUGHTY, Ga. The following Special Committees were continued or altered : — On Microscope. — JOHN C. DALTON, Jr., NY ; DAVID HUTCHINSON, Ind. ; AR STOUT, Cal. ; CALVIN ELLIS, Mass. ; CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON, Md.
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Page 251 - Resolved, That we recommend to all the medical colleges entitled to a representation in this body that they appoint delegates, especially instructed to •represent them in a meeting to be held at Louisville on Monday, the day immediately preceding the convention of the American Medical Association, for the year 1859, at ten o'clock, at such place as the committee of arrangements shall designate.
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Page 271 - Atlantic coast for a little while, they bring us air saturated with moisture from the Gulf Stream, and we complain of the sultry, oppressive, heavy atmosphere ; the invalid grows worse, and the well man feels ill, because, when he takes this atmosphere into his lungs, it is already so charged with moisture that it cannot take...