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A. A. Gould Adams Admitted Annual Meeting Barnstable Bartlett Bedford Belchertown Benjamin Benjamin F Berkshire Bigelow Boston Bowditch Bristol South Cambridge cause of consumption Chapin Charles Charlestown Committee Councillors cure damp deaths by consumption died of consumption disease districts Dorchester Ebenezer Edward Essex South fact fever Fitchburg fracture Francis Minot Franklin George Haverhill Henry Homans Hooker influence injection Jamaica Plain James John Joseph Josiah JOSIAH BARTLETT Librarian localities Lowell Massachusetts Medical Society medicine ment Middlesex East Middlesex North moist moisture motion of Dr neuralgia Newburyport NORTH.-Drs Northampton operation P. M. Crane pain patient phthisis physician Pittsfield Plymouth practice present prevalence profession Recording Secretary remarks Residence Retired river Roxbury Salem Samuel soil SOUTH.-Drs spot Springfield statistics Suffolk sumption Surgeon Taunton tion town townships Treasurer treatment Vice-President Wakefield Warren West West Newbury William Woburn Worcester wounds
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Page 380 - Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 249 - I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption ; and further...
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