American Medicine, Volume 19

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American-Medicine Publishing Company, 1913

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Page 75 - He had raised money and squandered it, by every artifice of acquisition and folly of expense. But let not his frailties be remembered ; he was a very great man.
Page 412 - And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Page 566 - Be strong! We are not here to play — to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do and loads to lift. Shun not the struggle — face it; 'tis God's gift.
Page 16 - To-day is your day and mine: the only day we have ; the day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great whole we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is our time.
Page 675 - Of thinking too precisely on the event, A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward, I do not know Why yet I live to say " This thing's to do " ; Sith I have cause and will and strength and means To do't.
Page 124 - Philadelphia, to report on the Operative and Non-operative treatment of Closed and Open Fractures of the Long Bones and the value of radiography in the study of these injuries. Surgeons, who have published papers relating to this subject within the last ten years, will confer a favor by sending two reprints to the Chairman of the Committee. If no reprints are available, the titles and places of their publication are desired.
Page 606 - That this Congress records its conviction that experiments on living animals have proved of the utmost service to medicine in the past and are indispensable to its future progress.
Page 568 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 422 - When a foreign body in the nose is not easily removable with forceps, remember Felizet's simple method — the injection of warm water into the opposite nostril. Use a syringe or douche nozzle that snugly fits the naris. Begin gently and slowly, then increase the force. As the resistance suddenly ceases, the foreign body is shot out, or at least is dislodged, by the pressure of the fluid reflected from the posterior wall of the pharynx.
Page 446 - ... Welfare of Infancy under the patronage of the King and Queen, and will convene immediately preceding the opening of the International Medical Congress. A tentative program has been issued by the Committee which indicates that the papers will consist largely of medical opinion. The subjects treated will be: — The Responsibility of Central and Local Authorities in Infant and Child Hygiene.

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