Physician and Surgeon, Volume 32

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Keating & Bryant, 1910
 

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Page 388 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 388 - Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.
Page 400 - THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By American Teachers. Edited by WILLIAM PEPPER, MD, LL.D., Provost and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 382 - Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full. This narrow cell was life's retreat, This space was thought's mysterious seat. What beauteous visions filled this spot, What dreams of pleasure long forgot ! Nor hope, nor joy, nor love, nor fear, Have left one trace of record here.
Page 381 - And thou who, mindful of the unhonour'd dead, Dost in these notes their artless tale relate, By night and lonely contemplation led To wander in the gloomy walks of fate : Hark ! how the sacred calm, that breathes around, Bids every fierce tumultuous passion cease ; In still small accents whispering from the ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace.
Page 386 - I lectured with men of power, to young men thirsting for knowledge, but the image still hovered round me. I was then invited to Louisville, became a member of one of the ablest faculties ever embodied in the west, and saw the halls of the University rapidly filled. But when I looked on the faces of four hundred students, behold ! the image was in their midst. While there I prosecuted an extensive course of personal inquiry into the causes and cure of the diseases of the interior of the continent...
Page 307 - Behring, the discoverer of the anti-diphtheritic serum. Thanks to the discovery of this serum thousands of young lives are now saved which would formerly have fallen victims to the terrible disease known as malignant diphtheria. This was made possible by the opportunity given to the workers in the Reichs-Gesundheitsamt and Imperial Institute for Infectious Diseases.
Page 368 - Text-Book upon the Pathogenic Bacteria. By JOSEPH McFARLAND, MD , Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the MedicoChirurgical College of Philadelphia, etc. Octavo volume of 497 pages, finely illustrated.
Page 192 - MODERN SURGERY : General and Operative. By John Chalmers DaCosta, MD, Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Handsome octavo volume of 1099 pages, with over 700 illustrations, some in colors.
Page 93 - ... had been in the habit of occasionally preaching at the principal chapels of that sect."* JOSEPH ALLEN, MD was born in Ireland, and bred a surgeon, in which capacity he accompanied Lord Anson in his celebrated voyage round the globe. On his return to England he was chosen master of Dulwich college. He obtained the degree of doctor of medicine from the university of St. Andrew's 23rd April, 1754 ; and was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 30th September, 1765. Dr. Allen retained...

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