Medical Council, Volume 14

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1909
 

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Page 92 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 219 - And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Page 376 - He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Page 444 - The President of the American Gynecological Society has appointed a committee to report at the next annual meeting in Washington, on the "Present Status of Obstetrical Teaching in Europe and America," and to recommend improvements in the scope and character of the teaching of Obstetrics in America. The committee consists of the Professors of Obstetrics in Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Jefferson Medical College, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University and the University...
Page 359 - With a wide open field, if necessary, the aid of anesthesia, the protoscope and the laboratory, there is usually not much difficulty in making a diagnosis — a diagnosis inseparably linked with its dependents — treatment and prognosis. Under the influence of progressive proctologic work, ignorance and indifference to the recognition and treatment of rectal diseases is rapidly disappearing from the average medical man, as well as from the average layman. As a result of which the sum total of human...
Page 9 - Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence and at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as Witnesses...
Page 359 - Proctoscopic examination is of importance, and is a distinct advance in rectal work. It is of great assistance in determining disease beyond discovery by ordinary methods. It is of distinct service in diagnosis, and of great value in aiding treatment in not a few conditions. There is more hope for the ultimate cure of tubercular conditions; our better understanding of what environment means to these people will go far toward helping them to recovery, and there is not so much reason for a delayed...
Page 406 - The result of thi» delinquencey has been the total loss of much material that should have been preserved, especially pertaining to medical schools and societies, and biographical matter in connection with the practitioners and teachers of medicine of by-gone days. A good deal of material of this character is still obtainable if a systematic effort is made to locate and preserve it. It is in the possession of individuals, families and private libraries and will eventually be lost. The Western Association...
Page 406 - The latter will be systematically arranged, catalogued and preserved so that it can be made available for research work. We are particularly anxious to obtain — 1. Medical journals published in the West and South prior to 1880. 2. Medical books and pamphlets written or published in the West 3. Manuscripts and autographs of early physicians.
Page xi - BLOOD DYSCRASIA as a pathological entity is as indefinable as ever. But recent physiological studies have emphasized anew the part played by certain constituents of the blood as protective, restorative and reparative forces.

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