American Practitioner and News, Volumes 13-14

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1892 - Medicine
 

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Page 415 - We may say it is better to have tried and failed, than never to have tried at all, and in saying that, we still have at the bottom of it the real idea of success.
Page 5 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Page 32 - In prescribing the products of Manufacturing Pharmacists, we should be guided, to a great extent, by the business standing of the manufacturers. No other house in the South or West has a better reputation for strict integrity than the Robinson-Pettet Company, Louisville, Ky.
Page 187 - After five years' service, assistant surgeons are entitled to examination for promotion to the grade of passed assistant surgeon. Promotion to the grade of surgeon is made according to seniority, and after due examination as vacancies occur in that grade. Assistant surgeons receive sixteen hundred dollars, passed assistant surgeons two thousand dollars, and surgeons twenty-five hundred dollars a year.
Page 248 - The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.
Page 239 - Adjunct Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, New York PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital; and William A. White, MD, Superintendent of St.
Page 1 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 187 - The following is the usual order of the examinations: 1, physical; 2, oral; 3, written; 4, clinical. In addition to the physical examination, candidates are required to certify that they believe themselves free from any ailment which would disqualify them for service in any climate. The examinations are chiefly in writing, and begin with a short autobiography of the candidate.
Page 256 - Robinson's Lime Juice and Pepsin" (see page — this number) we can recommend as possessing merit of high order. The fact that the manufacturers of this palatable preparation use the purest and best Pepsin, and that every lot made by them is carefully tested before offering for sale, is a guarantee to the physician that he will certainly obtain the good results he expects from Pepsin.
Page 182 - ... but there can be no doubt that by far the greater part of them would be eager to escape from their present precarious subserviency.

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