Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine, Volume 1

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American Academy of Medicine., 1895 - Medicine
 

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Page 401 - The benefits accruing to the public, directly and indirectly, from the active and unwearied beneficence of the profession, are so numerous and important, that physicians are justly entitled to the utmost consideration and respect from the community. The public ought likewise to entertain a just appreciation of medical qualifications; to make a proper discrimination between true science and the assumption of ignorance and empiricism...
Page 20 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and f heat.
Page 329 - The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.
Page 329 - The world is nothing, the man is all ; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends ; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.
Page 609 - ... condition of the eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town, or district in which the parents of the infant reside. SECTION 2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.
Page 611 - Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 681 - Nothing in this act shall apply to commissioned medical officers of the United States army or navy, or of the United States marine hospital service. Nor shall it...
Page 16 - The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Page 16 - ... what patients partially under the influence of chloroform describe, who see all the operation, but feel not the knife. This singular condition was not the result of any mental process. The shake annihilated fear, and allowed no sense of horror in looking round at the beast. This peculiar state is probably produced in all animals killed by the carnivora ; and if so, is a merciful provision by our benevolent Creator for lessening the pain of death.
Page 677 - ... person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold office during the unexpired term of the member whose place he fills.

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