American Medicine, Volume 30American-Medicine Publishing Company, 1924 |
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... United States , included large groups of men who under ordinary conditions of war would have been excluded from military service . During the latter part of the war period , influenza became epidemic and its ravages helped to raise the ...
... United States , included large groups of men who under ordinary conditions of war would have been excluded from military service . During the latter part of the war period , influenza became epidemic and its ravages helped to raise the ...
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... United States during 1923 was slightly higher than that for 1922. While the peak of fatality would appear to have occurred during the first three months of the year , the mortality rate for all months , thus far statistically compiled ...
... United States during 1923 was slightly higher than that for 1922. While the peak of fatality would appear to have occurred during the first three months of the year , the mortality rate for all months , thus far statistically compiled ...
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... United States . According to the 1920 census , more than a million boys and girls between ten and fifteen years of age are classified as being laborers . More . than one - third of these are under fourteen years of age , which is the ...
... United States . According to the 1920 census , more than a million boys and girls between ten and fifteen years of age are classified as being laborers . More . than one - third of these are under fourteen years of age , which is the ...
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... United States , where the stag- gering number of millions spent on laxatives is an index of its frequency . Contrary to the prevailing conception , constipation is not peculiar to modern civilization only , but seems to have existed ...
... United States , where the stag- gering number of millions spent on laxatives is an index of its frequency . Contrary to the prevailing conception , constipation is not peculiar to modern civilization only , but seems to have existed ...
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... United States Department of Agriculture showed that a tumor - like disease in plants called " crown- gall " could be transplanted to a healthy plant by the inoculating with a pure culture of bacteria , that he called " bacteria tume ...
... United States Department of Agriculture showed that a tumor - like disease in plants called " crown- gall " could be transplanted to a healthy plant by the inoculating with a pure culture of bacteria , that he called " bacteria tume ...
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Page 229 - And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay ; but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Page 185 - Each essay must be typewritten, distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto and containing the name and address of the writer. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The Committee will return the unsuccessful essays, if reclaimed by their respective writers, or their agents, within one year. The Committee reserves the right...
Page 123 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price thereof at the time of exportation to the United States...
Page 47 - It isn't the thing you do, dear, ft 's the thing you've left undone Which gives you a bit of heartache At the setting of the sun.
Page 274 - I don't know but you ought," said Mrs. Van Arsdel, who was always convinced by the last speaker. "You see," continued Eva, "the priest and the Levite who passed by on the other side when a man lay wounded were just of Aunt Maria's mind.
Page 185 - The conditions annexed by the testator are that the prize "shall be awarded every five years to the writer of the best original essay, not exceeding one hundred and fifty printed pages, octavo, in length, illustrative of some subject in Surgical Pathology or Surgical Practice, founded upon original Investigations, the candidates for the prize to be American citizens.
Page 186 - ... distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto, and containing the name and address of the writer. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers, or their agents, within one year. The committee reserves the right to make no award if the essays submitted are not considered worthy of the prize.
Page 240 - ... preparation, the scientific attitude, sincerity, and constant hospitality to new knowledge and improved methods. The spirit of modern medicine is, then, scientific; it seeks to be open-minded toward new truth, provided this can be rationally related to the great body of firmly established and organized knowledge about nature, life, and mind, about which all scientific men agree. Scientific medicine cannot accept ideas which are merely mystical, or imply unknown and unverifiable physical or chemical...
Page 185 - It is expressly stipulated that the successful competitor, who receives the prize, shall publish his essay in book form, and that he shall deposit one copy of the work in the Samuel D. Gross Library of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. The essays, which must be written by a single author in the English language, should be sent to Dr.
Page 229 - Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things ? I tell you, Nay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem ? I tell you, Nay : but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.