Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 43

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American Medical Association., 1904 - American Medical Association
Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.
 

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Page 89 - Seriously, is it not an astonishing fact, that though on the treatment of offspring depend their lives or deaths, and their moral welfare or ruin ; yet not one word of instruction on the treatment of offspring is ever given to those who will hereafter...
Page 161 - Cicero remarks, that not to know what has been transacted in former times, is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
Page 86 - A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 440 pages, 28 illustrations. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid to any address. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10.00. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.
Page 263 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Page 3 - A Pseudo-science does not necessarily consist wholly- of lies. It may contain many truths, and even valuable ones. The rottenest bank starts with a little specie. It puts out a thousand promises to pay on the strength of a single dollar, but the dollar is very commonly a good one.
Page 49 - On motion, the secretary was instructed to cast the unanimous ballot of the department for the nominees.
Page 96 - FRCS (Hon.), Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, etc.
Page 295 - While these conditions were caused in great part by septic processes, there can be no doubt that in a large proportion of cases the injury to the epithelium of the peritoneum from excessive washing and mopping was the cause of adhesions. Nothing has done so much to lessen the frequency and extent of postoperative...
Page 221 - General that the complainant was engaged in a scheme to obtain money through the mails by means of false and fraudulent pretenses...
Page 250 - Beaumont found in the man with the fistulous opening into the stomach " that anger or other severe mental emotions would sometimes cause its inner or mucous coat to become morbidly red, dry, and irritable ; occasioning at the same time a temporary fit of indigestion

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