Transactions of the Antiseptic Club

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E.B. Treat, 1895 - 206 pages
 

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Page 5 - Generosity he has, such as is possible to those who practice an art, never to those who drive a trade; discretion, tested by a hundred secrets; tact, tried in a thousand embarrassments; and what are more important, Heraclean cheerfulness and courage. So it is that he brings air and cheer into the sickroom, and often enough, though not so often as he wishes, brings healing.
Page 5 - He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilisation; and when that stage of man is done with, and only remembered to be marvelled at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the defects of the period, and most notably exhibited the virtues of the race.
Page 9 - The seemingly perverted use of medicated pulp and carbolized ink is not always abortive of beneficial results. Truth Is often a nauseous pill to swallow; .here It has the sugar-coating of humor flavored with unalloyed sarcasm. In the transactions of the Antiseptic Club the thoughtful physician will find much to awaken his curiosity and Interest; from the organization of the club, the various papers read and discussed, the testimonials considered, the cases submitted, the .hypoderm, and finally the...
Page 9 - A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market." Here a hundred laughs may be provoked to animate the muscles of mirth, atrophied from the disuse incident to the cares and anxieties of medical practice. Those in quest of a case find here a needed repose in the refreshing outbursts of wit and humor which bubble and sparkle with health-giving cheer as the tale is told, and not a line will be found to be
Page 8 - These sayings are true at all times, and equally true that " a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
Page 3 - Transactions of the Antiseptic Club. Reported by ALBERT ABRAMS, a member of the San Francisco Medical Profession. Illustrated.
Page 162 - Case No. 2. Rejected on account of sugar in the urine. An antidiabetic die.t caused the sugar to disappear temporarily from the urine, and the candidate was accepted.
Page 162 - Rejected on account of a severe eruption on the skin of questionable character. The use of a flesh-colored paint artistically applied resulted in the acceptance of the candidate by another company.
Page 37 - Out of respect to the Germans, who had done so much toward elevating the moral tone of microbes, the latter were called " germs," a term which certainly needed revision when applied to microbes of French extraction.

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