The Woman's Medical Journal, Volume 18

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Recorder Publishing Company, 1908

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Page 18 - Conn., was elected chairman of the Section on Nervous and Mental Diseases of the American Medical Association.
Page 168 - ... to ascertain whether he is suffering from defective sight or hearing or from any other disability or defect tending to prevent his receiving the full benefit of his school work, or requiring a modification of the school work in order to prevent injury to the child or to secure the best educational results.
Page 158 - ... containing the name and address of the author. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers or their agents within one year.
Page 59 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on...
Page 72 - Harvard College pays me for doing what I would gladly pay it for allowing me to do. No professional man, then, thinks of giving according to measure. Once engaged, he gives his best, gives his personal interest, himself. His heart is in his work, and for this no equivalent is possible; what is accepted is in the nature of a fee, gratuity, or consideration, which enables him who receives it to maintain a certain expected mode of life. The real payment is the work itself, this and the chance to join...
Page 32 - In so far forth, then, even the humblest manual trade may beget in one a certain small degree of power to judge of good work generally. Now, what is supposed to be the line of us who have the higher college training? Is there any broader line— since our education claims primarily not to be "narrow"— in which we also are made good judges between what is first-rate and what is second-rate only? What is especially taught in the colleges has long been known by the name of the "humanities," and these...
Page 220 - Peyer's patches being the foci of inflammation, and it is but the application of commonsense principles to seek for some means of combatting this intestinal inflammation. Local applications prove efficacious elsewhere in inflammation — why not here? Applications with hygroscopic properties reduce inflammations in other tissues of the body and will do likewise in typhoid fever. The best of these is Antiphlogistine and its use in typhoid fever is demonstrable. It will tend to reduce the inflammation...
Page 200 - Reference Hand-Book, Vol. II, p. 708. The literature upon this subject is so vast that volumes might be filled with quotations from standard authorities only, but our desire is to make the briefest reference to these with...
Page 48 - They will be examined and the prize awarded by a Committee appointed by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in conjunction with the officers of the International Congress on Tuberculosis.
Page 111 - In pathological conditions deviations from the normal are observed, not only in regard to the time of recovery of the beads (disturbances of motility), but also in regard to the presence of the food substances (disturbances of the digestive function). The author divides his cases of intestinal digestive disturbances into two groups: i.

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