American Medicine, Volume 19American-Medicine Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... known as the starting points of tuberculosis , but now typhoid fever has been discovered to be the most potent of all the infections in this re- spect . Since attention has been called to it , certain investigators have expressed ...
... known as the starting points of tuberculosis , but now typhoid fever has been discovered to be the most potent of all the infections in this re- spect . Since attention has been called to it , certain investigators have expressed ...
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... known , and a saving of more than 5,000 lives over 1911. The rate for 1908 was 16.3 and that for 1904 , 18. The highest mortality was in the maritime district , and the lowest in the southern tier . During 1912 tuberculosis caused ...
... known , and a saving of more than 5,000 lives over 1911. The rate for 1908 was 16.3 and that for 1904 , 18. The highest mortality was in the maritime district , and the lowest in the southern tier . During 1912 tuberculosis caused ...
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... known the patient from her birth , entered the room weeping in sympathy with those gathered at the bed side . She pleaded with the mother for permission to try one more remedy she felt sure might even yet save the life of the patient ...
... known the patient from her birth , entered the room weeping in sympathy with those gathered at the bed side . She pleaded with the mother for permission to try one more remedy she felt sure might even yet save the life of the patient ...
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... known to the general practitioner is that , for obvious . reasons , it is impossible to get union in good position , in fractures of the lower end of the tibia and fibula , unless the foot is held absolutely at right angles . If repo ...
... known to the general practitioner is that , for obvious . reasons , it is impossible to get union in good position , in fractures of the lower end of the tibia and fibula , unless the foot is held absolutely at right angles . If repo ...
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... known patients to receive these in- jections once or more weekly , throughout the course of an entire year and to the complete exclusion of all other treatment . As every one who takes the trouble to in- form himself , knows these ...
... known patients to receive these in- jections once or more weekly , throughout the course of an entire year and to the complete exclusion of all other treatment . As every one who takes the trouble to in- form himself , knows these ...
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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.
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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.