The Medical Brief: A Monthly Journal of Scientific Medicine and Surgery, Volume 36

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1908

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Page 634 - Master of human destinies am I ! Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait, Cities and fields I walk ; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late . I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping wake, if feasting rise before . I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 138 - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Page 282 - I have entertained, — that hardly any weight is to be given to the evidence of what are called scientific witnesses. They come with such a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked, that hardly any weight should be given to their evidence.
Page 287 - THE SPECIALTIES: A Manual of Its Practical Application. By Willy Meyer, MD, Professor of Surgery at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; and Professor Dr.
Page 647 - Gray. — ANATOMY, DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGICAL. By HENRY GRAY, FRS late Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital. With 569 Woodcut Illustrations, a large number of which are coloured.
Page 237 - HEPATICA. The original effervescing saline laxative and uric acid solvent. A combination of the tonic, alterative, and laxative salts similar to the celebrated Bitter Waters of Europe, fortified by addition of lithium and sodium phosphates.
Page 702 - The essential requirements to securing an invitation are that the applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, shall be between twentytwo and thirty years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine...
Page 160 - ... epoch, I do not see any great amelioration which has been derived from that discovery. You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived ; future nations will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox has existed, and by you has been extirpated.

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