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Page 319 - Dr. MA Fallen, Missouri, chairman. On some Diseases peculiar to Colorado — Dr. John Eisner, Colorado, chairman. On Rank of Medical Corps of the Army — Dr. JM Keller, Kentucky, chairman. On Prize Essays — Dr. GK Johnson, Michigan, chairman. On the Progress of Otology— Dr. DB St. John Roosa, New York, chairman. On American as compared with Foreign Winter Cures — Dr. H. B. Storer, Massachusetts, chairman. On Railroad Injuries — Dr. WF Peck, Iowa, chairman. On the Therapeutics of Ammonia...
Page 65 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 9 - Three faces wears the doctor : when first sought, An angel's — and a God's, the cure half wrought : But, when that cure complete, he seeks his fee, The Devil looks then less terrible than he.
Page 320 - Each State, County and District Medical Society entitled to representation shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Page 161 - Leishman A SYSTEM OF MIDWIFERY, including the Diseases of Pregnancy and the Puerperal State. By WILLIAM LEISHMAN, MD, Regius Professor of Midwifery in the University of Glasgow ; Physician to the University Lying-in Hospital; Fellow and late Vice-President of the Obstetrical Society of London, etc.
Page 185 - Act to increase the efficiency of the Medical Department of the United States Army, approved April twenty-third, nineteen hundred and eight.
Page 172 - Wythe's Dose and Symptom Book. Containing the Doses and Uses of all the principal Articles of the Materia Medica, etc.
Page 242 - ICES frequent and less severe in those who have been efficiently treated by mercury than in others. That mercury cautiously given does not in a great majority of instances do any injury to the general health, and that its local inconveniences may usually be prevented.
Page 243 - That most collected statistics as to the duration of treatment and freedom from relapse are misleading and worse than useless, because usually the treatment was far too short to be effectual. " That it has not yet been proved that there are any special forms of syphilitic disease in which mercury ought to be avoided, although, as a general rule, it is acknowledged that it must be used with more caution in all forms which are attended by ulceration than in others. " That iodide of potassium possesses...
Page 254 - ... for compounding and dispensing the prescriptions of medical practitioners, and for the retailing of drugs and medicines, and who shall give to the State Board of Pharmacy satisfactory evidence of their qualifications...