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Page 466 - Essays on Puerperal Fever, and other Diseases peculiar to Women. Selected from the Writings of British authors previous to the close of the eighteenth century. Edited by Fleetwood Churchill, MD
Page 600 - either to the Jews, or to the Gentiles, or to the Church of God.' They may prefer one course of practice to another, and no man has any cause to be offended. I hope the articles in your paper may assist them to pursue a prudent course. S. OSGOOD. " Springfield, July 16, 1850.
Page 596 - wanted by the young practitioner in his future career of responsibility. 18. The things to be avoided by medical teachers, are technicalities which are unintelligible to beginners—gratuitous assumptions and citations of doubtful authorities—prolix dissertations on speculative topics, excessive minuteness in regard to subjects, which are intricate and but little used, and therefore destined to be speedily forgotten. To these
Page 492 - Medical Topography, Meteorology, and Prevalent Diseases in the following States : Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas; to be published annually. Edited by ED FENNER, MD, of New Orleans ; Member of the American Medical Association, &c. &c.
Page 593 - PRACTICAL VIEWS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION. The undecided state of public opinion in regard to some of the fundamental points in a course of medical education, including among other things the portion of the term of pupilage proper to be spent in attendance on lectures, is thought, by the undersigned, to justify a further consideration of the subject. In some
Page 594 - 3. In Chemistry, at the present time, a thorough adept is unknown. No man living knows all the recorded facts, or all that is to be known and taught, in that science. Organic chemistry alone fills large volumes, though yet in its infancy.
Page 594 - 7. In Therapeutics, many hundred volumes exist, such as would not have existed, could a knowledge of the cure of diseases be made so easily tangible, that it could be spread before the student in the three or five years of his pupilage.
Page 596 - added controversies, superfluous personal eulogiums and criminations, and all self-exaggeration, personal or local. JACOB BIGELOW, Prof, of Materia Medica and Clinical Medicine WALTER CHANNING, Prof, of Midwifery and Med. Jurisprudence. JOHN WARE, Prof, of Theory and Practice of Medicine. JOHN BS JACKSON, Prof, of Pathological Anatomy. OLIVER W. HOLMES, Prof, of Anatomy and Physiology. HENRY J. BIGELOW, Prof, of
Page 444 - has never given less than from two to three drachms per diem, nor more than twenty, and he has never observed the slightest inconvenience from these large doses ; and it is his custom to give it to the children in his hospital by spoonfuls or tablespoonfuls, without observing more exactitude, so innocuous is it. So
Page 526 - dreaded to touch the floor with them, and shooting up the limbs to the lumbar region with dreadful suffering. There was also at this time a new source of suffering, shooting pain through his testicles, of such severity, as almost to produce fainting ; indeed, to see him in his suffering, was the most