Medical Record, Volume 10George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman W. Wood., 1875 - Medicine |
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Page 361 - DUTIES OF THE PROFESSION TO THE PUBLIC, AND OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE PUBLIC TO THE PROFESSION. ART. I.—Duties of the profession to the public. § 1. As good citizens, it is the duty of physicians to be ever vigilant for the welfare of the community, and to bear their part in sustaining its institutions and burdens...
Page 231 - No, the romance and the beauty were all gone from the river. All the value any feature of it had for me now was the amount of usefulness it could furnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat. Since those days, I have pitied doctors from my heart. What does the lovely flush in a beauty's cheek mean to a doctor but a 'break' that ripples above some deadly disease?
Page 279 - Papers appropriate to the several sections, in order to secure consideration and action, must be sent to the Secretary of the appropriate section at least one month before the meeting which is to act upon them. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to whom such papers are sent, to examine them with care, and, with the advice of the chairman of his section, to determine the time and order of their presentation, and give due notice of the same.
Page 348 - We believe that proper measures should be instituted to commemorate this great achievement and do appropriate honor to its author ; therefore, Resolved, That this association recommend to each of its members, and to the profession generally, to contribute annually such sums as they may think proper, until the amount of...
Page 135 - Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc., etc., etc.
Page 348 - Independence, have taken the initiatory steps for the formation of an International Medical Congress, by the appointment of delegates from their respective bodies, who were empowered to organize and perfect a scheme...
Page 31 - When Diphtheria is in the House or in the Family. — The well children should be scrupulously kept apart from the sick in dry, well-aired rooms, and every possible source of infection through the air, by personal contact with the sick, and by articles used about them or in their rooms, should be rigidly guarded. Every attack of sore throat, cough, and catarrh should be at once attended to ; the feeble should have invigorating food and treatment.
Page 68 - ... from which impulses are sent down through various motor nerves to the muscular structures engaged in the act. 4. This nervous centre is probably closely connected with the respiratory centre, but is not identical with it. 5. It is usually set in action reflexly by irritation of the pharyngeal, gastric, hepatic, enteric, renal, uterine, ovarian, and possibly also by the pulmonary and vesical nerves, which come from the periphery towards it. It may also be excited by impressions sent down to it...
Page 159 - Previously to this discovery, the portio dura was often cut by surgeons for the cure of neuralgia ! 3. Discovery of the functions of the anterior and posterior roots of the spinal nerves by Sir Charles Bell. 4. Discovery of the functions of the anterior and posterior columns of the spinal cord by Sir Charles Bell and others.
Page 64 - At a recent meeting of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Mr.