The Medical World, Volume 25

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Roy Jackson., 1907

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Page 83 - MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Stomach in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore; and JOHN RUHRAH, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.
Page 87 - The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 193 - People can't die, along the coast,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide.
Page 82 - Formulas and Doses for Hypodermic Medication. Poisons and their Antidotes, Diameters of the Female Pelvis and Fetal Head, Obstetrical Table...
Page 171 - A Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease. — For Use in Training Schools for Attendants and Nurses and in Medical Classes. By CB Burr, MD, Medical Director of Oak Grove Hospital...
Page 307 - A heavy progressive tax upon a very large fortune is in no way such a tax upon thrift or industry as a like tax would be on a small fortune. No advantage comes either to the country as a whole or to the individuals inheriting the money by permitting the transmission in their entirety of the enormous fortunes which would be affected by such a tax...
Page 217 - At a meeting of the. Board of Directors of the NEA held in Washington, DC, July 7, 1898, the action of the Department of Superintendence was approved and the list of words with simplified spelling adopted for use in all publications of the NEA as follows: Program (programme) ; tho (though) ; altho (although) ; thoro (thorough) ; thorofare (thoroughfare) ; thru (through) ; thruout (throughout) ; catalog (catalogue) ; prolog (prologue) ; decalog (decalogue) ; demagog (demagogue) ; pedagog (pedagogue).
Page 43 - I see, in the near future, a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.
Page 82 - Materials and Drugs used in Antiseptic Surgery, Treatment of Asphyxia from Drowning, Surgical Remembrancer, Tables of Incompatibles, Eruptive Fevers, etc., etc.
Page 175 - THE MEDICAL WORLD" 1520 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pa, Language is a growth rather than a creation. The growth of our vocabulary is seen in the fast increase in the size of our dictionaries during the past century. This growth is not only in amount, but among other elements of growth the written forms of words are becoming simpler and more uniform. For example, compare English spelling of a century or two centuries ago with that of to-day I It is our duty to encourage and advance the movement...

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