Daniel's Texas Medical Journal, Volume 31

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Ferdinand Eugene Daniel
1915
 

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Page 415 - Is the mildest degree of mental defect, and the feeble-minded person is 'one who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, but is incapable from mental defect existing from birth, or from an early age, (a) of competing on equal terms with his normal fellows; or (b) of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence.
Page 18 - ... territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other state, territory or district of the United States or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof...
Page 153 - Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by — The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I.
Page 153 - I see from my house by the side of the road, By the side of the highway of life, The men who press with the ardor of hope, The men who are faint with the strife.
Page 272 - It's a pretty good plan to forget it. If you know of a skeleton hidden away In a closet, and guarded, and kept from the day In the dark ; and whose showing, whose sudden display Would cause grief and sorrow and lifelong dismay, It's a pretty good plan to forget it.
Page 18 - ... producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use; or any written or printed card, letter, circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information, directly or indirectly, where, how, or of whom or by what means any of the...
Page 31 - That prominent among the- predisposing factors, for which one should be on guard, are : general lowered nutrition ; chronic irritation and inflammation; repeated acute trauma; cicatricial tissue, such as lupus and other scars, and burns ; benign tumors — warts, moles, nevi (birth-marks), etc.; also that changes occurring in the character of such tumors and tissues, as well as the occurrence of any abnormal discharge from any part of the body, especially if bloodstained, are to be regarded as suspicious.
Page 31 - That while there is some evidence that cancer is increasing, such evidence does not justify any present alarm. (16) That suggestions which are put forward from time to time regarding eugenic, dietetic and other means of limiting cancer, should not be accepted by the public until definitely endorsed by the consensus of expert opinion. Such consensus does not exist today. (17) That so far as we know there is nothing in the origin of cancer that calls for a feeling of shame or the necessity of concealment....
Page 341 - I recently heard one of the members of the Cabinet state that in the United States 55 per cent of the arable land, for one reason or another, is being held out of use. Now suppose in the United States we could put into effect some measure that would force this 55 per cent of our arable land into use. The effect at once would be to double the number of jobs. If the jobs were doubled in number wages would be doubly increased. The only way I can think of forcing this unused land into use is a tax on...

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