Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, Volume 28The Association, 1875 |
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Page 66
... mortality from the zymotic diseases is startling . Taken collectively during five successive quinquennial periods , from 1847 to 1871 , these diseases in the period from 1847 to 1857 de- stroyed the lives of 512,261 persons , out of a ...
... mortality from the zymotic diseases is startling . Taken collectively during five successive quinquennial periods , from 1847 to 1871 , these diseases in the period from 1847 to 1857 de- stroyed the lives of 512,261 persons , out of a ...
Page 69
... mortality at the rate of three or four per cent . a day , in a crew of three hundred , arose from drinking muddy water from the paddy fields , though either by boiling it or by filtering it through charcoal much of the mor- tality might ...
... mortality at the rate of three or four per cent . a day , in a crew of three hundred , arose from drinking muddy water from the paddy fields , though either by boiling it or by filtering it through charcoal much of the mor- tality might ...
Page 71
... mortality from preventable diseases is on the decrease in many localities , by the adoption of sanitary laws . In some portions of England , and in Geneva , the mortality has been reduced twenty per cent . in the last ten years . Aside ...
... mortality from preventable diseases is on the decrease in many localities , by the adoption of sanitary laws . In some portions of England , and in Geneva , the mortality has been reduced twenty per cent . in the last ten years . Aside ...
Page 119
... mortality . " — [ See Dickson , p . 150 . Dr. West takes the same view of this subject as I do , in his work on Diseases of Children . ( West on Diseases of Chil- dren , p . 583. ) He says : " Concerning Scrofula I have little to say ...
... mortality . " — [ See Dickson , p . 150 . Dr. West takes the same view of this subject as I do , in his work on Diseases of Children . ( West on Diseases of Chil- dren , p . 583. ) He says : " Concerning Scrofula I have little to say ...
Page 149
... mortality of different sections , we find that the law of average to a considerable extent prevails . The disease producing the greatest ravages and heading the lists of mor- tality in one section , in another is reduced to a minimum ...
... mortality of different sections , we find that the law of average to a considerable extent prevails . The disease producing the greatest ravages and heading the lists of mor- tality in one section , in another is reduced to a minimum ...
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Page 85 - ... my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons and those of my teachers and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine but to none others.
Page 85 - I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous.
Page 84 - I will keep this oath and this stipulation— to reckon him who taught me this art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him and relieve his necessities if required, to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation...
Page 97 - ... and in regard to measures for the prevention of epidemic and contagious diseases; and when pestilence prevails, it is their duty to face the danger, and to continue their labors for the alleviation of the suffering, even at the jeopardy of their own lives. § 2. Medical men should also be always ready, when called on by the legally constituted authorities, to enlighten coroners...
Page 85 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice or not in connection with it, I see or hear in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Page 91 - ... suffer such publications to be made — to invite laymen to be present at operations — to boast of cures and remedies — to adduce certificates of skill and success, or to perform any other similar acts. These are the ordinary practices of empirics, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician.
Page 96 - A wealthy physician should not give advice gratis to the affluent ; because his doing so is an injury to his professional brethren. The office of a physician can never be supported as an exclusively beneficent one ; and it is defrauding, in some degree, the common funds for its support, when fees are dispensed with which might justly be claimed.
Page 89 - ... very apt to suppose that the rules prescribed for them may be disregarded, and the consequence, but too often, is a relapse. Patients should never allow themselves to be persuaded to take any medicine whatever, that may be recommended to them by the self-constituted doctors and doctresses who are so frequently met with, and who pretend to possess infallible remedies for the cure of every disease.
Page 95 - Under such circumstances no unjust and illiberal insinuations should be thrown out in relation to the conduct or practice previously pursued, which should be justified as far as candor, and regard for truth and probity will permit ; for it often happens that patients become dissatisfied when they do not experience immediate relief, and, as many diseases are naturally protracted, the want of success, in the first stage of treatment, affords no evidence of a lack of professional knowledge and skill.
Page 110 - But no one can be considered as a regular practitioner, or a fit associate in consultation, whose practice is based on an exclusive dogma, to the rejection of the accumulated experience of the profession, and of the aids actually furnished by anatomy, physiology, pathology, and organic chemistry.