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Page 405 - 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 485 - Progressive Medicine: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, etc. Volume I. March, 1899. Surgery of the Head, Neck and Chest; Diseases of Children; Pathology; Infectious Diseases, including Croupous Pneumonia; Laryngology and Rhinology; Otology.
Page 405 - I can feel no pride, but pity For the burdens the rich endure; There is nothing sweet in the city But the patient lives of the poor.
Page 420 - ... century. Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in the year 1809. He was a descendant of Joseph Kirkbride, of the Society of Friends, of the parish of Kirkbride, county of Cumberland, England, who came to this country in the same year with William Penn. Dr. Kirkbride was a graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in the year 1832. During this year he was appointed a resident physician of the Friends...
Page 365 - For a fee he prescribed bitters made of alcohol, water and gentian. This gave her false strength for a while for it checked out her little reserve. When the hemorrhage occurred she and all her neighbors knew she had consumption and the doctor should have known it and told her months before. Now, she wrote to the State Board of Health and said : " I am told that consumption in its early stages can be cured by outdoor life, continued rest, and plenty of plain, good food. I do not want to die. I want...
Page 208 - In half of the cases the Pituitrin was administered in the second stage of labor. It failed only once. In all other instances its action was very pronounced. And although we encounter a great many cases of narrow pelvis in Dresden (from 40 to 50 per cent.), it was not necessary to have recourse to forceps delivery in a single instance in which Pituitrin was employed. • • • According to our experience. Pituitrin is the most ideal oxytocic we possess today.
Page 329 - To that end we urge the establishment of a strong federal administrative commission of high standing, which shall maintain permanent active supervision over industrial corporations engaged in interstate commerce, or such of them as are of public importance, doing for them what the government now does for the national banks and what is now done for the railroads by the interstate commerce commission.
Page 207 - The examinations will be held simultaneously throughout the country at points where boards can be convened. Due consideration will be given to localities from which applications are received, in order to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants as much as possible.
Page 78 - In short, he must become impressed with the salutary truth, that no one can be perfectly free till all are free ; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral ; no one can be perfectly happy till, all are happy.
Page 405 - 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. Be strong! Say not the days are evil, — Who's to blame?