The New Hampshire Journal of Medicine ..., Volume 3Edward Hazen Parker 1853 - Medicine |
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Page 222 - It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements, or private cards, or handbills, inviting the attention of individuals affected with particular diseases...
Page 52 - ... radical cures ; or to publish cases and operations in the daily prints, or suffer such publications to be made — to invite laymen to be present at operations, to boast of cures and remedies — to adduce certificates of skill and success, or to perform any other similar acts. These are the ordinary practices of empirics, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician.
Page 186 - A mere variation of shade does not alter the fixation of color, and we imagine it does not require a very great stretch of the imagination to conceive a shade which, in contradistinction to white or grey, may be called black opacity.
Page 196 - Each communication must be accompanied by a sealed packet, containing the name of the author, which will be opened only in the case of the successful competitors. Unsuccessful communications will be returned on application, after the 1st of June 1853.
Page 28 - Give them," said he in 1810, and in a far higher strain of eloquence, "a corrupt House of Lords; give them a venal House of Commons ; give them a tyrannical Prince ; give them a truckling Court, — and let me but have an unfettered press ; I will defy them to encroach a hair's-breadth upon the liberties of England...
Page 168 - Smith offered the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed by the...
Page 223 - Equally derogatory to professional character is it for a physician to hold a patent for any surgical instrument or medicine ; or to dispense a secret nostrum, whether it be the composition or exclusive property of himself or of others. For, if such nostrum be of real efficacy, any concealment regarding it is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and if mystery alone give it value and importance, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice. It is also...
Page 11 - I have many times seen children lie for a day or two in this kind of stupor, and recover under the use of wine and nourishment. It is often scarcely to be distinguished from the coma which accompanies diseases of the brain.
Page 102 - ... with an organization of the kind, radiating from a National Pharmaceutical Association as a common centre. It would be of vast benefit to the community at large, as well as eminently useful to the medical profession ; for as all must admit, it is of the most vital importance to the success of the physician that his remedial agents are properly prepared by a well-bred and perfectly educated Chemist and Pharmaceutist; and I may add my conviction, that medical and pharmaceutical chemistry, a part...
Page 11 - ... and get in plenty of nature's nutriment, and as I succeeded in this, the drowsiness went off, and the child revived. If it could have reasoned and spoken it would have told this practitioner how wrong he was ; any one, who from long defect in the organs of nutrition, is reduced so that he has neither flesh on his body, nor blood in his veins, well knows what it is to lay down his head and doze away half the day without any congestion or inflammation of his brain.