Medical Council, Volume 9

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1904

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Page 384 - Roll the patient over on the dressed side and complete the application. Then stitch the front of the jacket. Prepare everything beforehand and work as rapidly as possible. The dressing should be renewed when it can be easily peeled off, generally in about 24 hours.
Page 186 - It was found that at the last session of the legislature a bill was passed...
Page 78 - good heads" are more prone than others toward plenary belief in the doctrine. It is so hard to prove a negative, that, if a man should assert that the moon was in truth a green cheese, formed by the coagulable substance of the Milky Way, and challenge me to prove the contrary, I might be puzzled. But if he offer to sell me a ton of this lunar cheese, I call on him to prove the truth of the caseous nature of our satellite, before I purchase, It is not necessary to prove the falsity of the phrenological...
Page 78 - I shall begin, my friends, with the definition of a Pseudo-science. A Pseudoscience consists of a nomenclature, with a self-adjusting arrangement, by which all positive evidence, or such as favors its doctrines, is admitted, and all negative evidence, or such as tells against it, is excluded.
Page 270 - Lindley. the editor of the Southern California Practitioner, has recently been elected Dean of the Medical College of the University of Southern California.
Page 78 - 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 345 - This genus has received its name from fanciful persons among the first Spanish settlers in America, imagining that they saw in its flowers a representation of our Lord's passion ; the filamentous processes being taken to represent the crown of thorns, the nail-shaped styles the nails of the cross, and the five anthers the marks of the wounds.
Page 341 - ... astringent influence is desirable, and so did the old Arabians for the same special reason. The value of castor oil in its chief use was familiar, probably for ages, to the natives of the East and of the West Indies before it was made known in Europe by a physician from Antigua one hundred and fifty years ago. Aloes was employed in the same way long before the time of Dioscorides and Pliny. The knowledge of the...
Page 307 - We have been requested to announce that "the Thirtieth Annual Session of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 11, 12, 13, 1904, under the presidency of Dr. Hugh T. Patrick, of Chicago. The headquarters and meeting places will be at the Grand Hotel. " The annual orations will be delivered by Dr.
Page 78 - It is invariably connected with some lucrative practical application. Its professors and practitioners are usually shrewd people; they are very serious with the public, but wink and laugh a good deal among themselves. The believing multitude consists of women of both sexes, feeble-minded inquirers, poetical optimists, people who always get cheated in buying horses, philanthropists who insist on hurrying up the millennium, and others of this class...

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