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Page 253 - ... did provide definitely that there should be complete medical attendance — that there should be medical, surgical, hospital treatment, and all the things recounted. It merely did not lay out particular ways in which it should be done. Since that time we have had much cooperation by the committees of the American Medical Association and of the State Medical Society of Xew York, together with the committees of several other organizations — representatives of some of these, at least, are in the...
Page 63 - Officer or some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town or district, in which the parents of the infant reside.
Page 62 - That it is the sense of this section of the American Medical Association, that a committee of five be appointed by the chair to urge in all parts of the country, by personal application, by circular to physicians and legislators, and by blank forms of a desirable law, such legislation as will tend to lessen the blindness caused by this disease.
Page 63 - SECTION 1. Should any midwife or nurse having charge of an infant in this State, notice that one or both eyes of such infant are inflamed or reddened, at any time within two weeks after its birth, it shall be the duty of...
Page 63 - Any failure to comply with the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.
Page 213 - Surely common sense and common sanity both dictate to the human mind that it is utterly impossible that any such dose, from any such an inconceivable ocean, medicated by a single grain of any drug dissolved and mixed in it, can have any possible medicinal effect...
Page 214 - In no case is it requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicinal substance at one time...
Page 202 - Britain," when speaking of Edward the Confessor, says " that the prince cured the king's evil is beyond dispute ; and since the credit of this miracle is unquestionable, I see no reason why we should scruple believing the rest.
Page 73 - ... shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court...
Page 147 - Daniel is a graduate of Columbia College and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

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