The Southern California Practitioner, Volume 12

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Stoll & Thayer, 1897

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Page 151 - A Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books of the leading American and Foreign authors and investigators.
Page 117 - I doubt if there is another remedial agent in therapeutics as reliable, serviceable, and satisfactory; and this, without establishing an exaction, requirement or habit in the system like morphine.
Page 345 - The next meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association will be held in Louisville, on October 5, 6, 7 and 8, 1897.
Page 232 - American Text-Book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat. Edited by GE DE SCHWEINITZ, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania ; and B.
Page 238 - Co., of New York City, contains an article of which the following is an excerpt, which we feel expresses the consensus of medical opinion as adduced by actual results : "Antikamnia is an American preparation that has come into extensive use as an analgetic and antipyretic. It is a white, crystalline, odorless powder, having a slightly aromatic taste, soluble in hot water, almost insoluble in cold water, but more fully soluble in alcohol. * * As an antipyretic it acts rather more slowly than antipyrine...
Page 129 - There are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd ; the soldier, the sailor, and the shepherd not infrequently ; the artist rarely ; rarelier still, the clergyman ; the physician almost as a rule. He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization ; and when that stage of man is done with, and only remembered to be marvelled at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the defects of the period, and most notably exhibited the virtues of the race.
Page 232 - A Text-Book of the Practice of Medicine. By JAMES M. ANDERS, MD, PH. D., LL. D., Professor of the Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. Handsome octavo volume of 1292 pages, fully illustrated.
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Page 231 - A Manual of the Practice of Medicine, Prepared Especially for Students. — By AA Stevens, AM, MD, Lecturer on Terminology and Instructor in Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; Demonstrator of Pathology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Physician to St. Agnes' Hospital, to the Out-Patient Department of the Episcopal Hospital, and to the Southeastern Dispensary, Philadelphia.
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