Transactions of the ... annual meeting, the American Academy of Railway Surgeons. v. 7, 1901, Volume 7The Academy, 1901 |
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100 per cent Academy of Railway accident amputation antiseptic Arapahoe County atropin Babinski phenomenon blind worm blood bone brain C. K. Cole Chief Surgeon cocain Colo Committee condition COUNCIL BLUFFS court cross-examination D. S. Fairchild Denver diagnosis disease dressing employees examination expert extension Flexion plantar reflex foot fracture fractured bones fragments healing hemiplegia hemorrhage HOCKING VALLEY RAILWAY hospital hospital-cars injury Iowa joint jury keloid lesions ligaments limb median nerve method Minn muscles nerve operation organic Owens pain paper patient persons physician Plantar flexion Poor blind worm practice PRESIDENT AMERICAN ACADEMY profession pyramidal tract question railroad railway company Railway Surgeons reflex was absent reflex was present remedies shock side skiagraph skull South Bethlehem sprains Surgeon Chicago surgery surgical surgical pathology Sylvan Beach symptoms T. B. Lacey term expires testimony tion tissue toes train treatment trephining tumor W. W. Grant Western R'y witness wound x-ray
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Page 88 - Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race. And whoever labors on this edifice with usefulness and distinction, whoever clears its foundations, strengthens its pillars, adorns its entablatures, or contributes to raise its august dome still higher in the skies, connects himself, in name, and fame, and character, with that which is and must be as durable as the frame of human...
Page 82 - ... persons in general. And such opinions, when they come from persons of great experience, and in whose correctness and sobriety of judgment just confidence can be had, are of great weight, and deserve the respectful consideration of a jury. But the opinion of a medical man of small experience, or of one who has crude and visionary notions, or who has some favorite theory to support, is entitled to very little consideration. The value of such testimony will depend mainly upon the experience, fidelity...
Page 88 - Justice, Sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.
Page 29 - ... great many, perhaps the majority of instances. 3. Location of the Car and the Number Required on a Line. — As noted above, 25 miles an hour would, under ordinary conditions, be the expectation of hospital car service ; this might be in two directions, of course, and so make the range of one car 50 miles. In order, therefore, to assure this service of one hour from the time of its call there must be one car for every 50 miles of track. When there are a number of lines branching out from a common...
Page 129 - Grant opened the eyeball and found a chip of iron in the fundus of the eye near the optic nerve entrance enclosed in a mass of inflammatory deposit. The piece was .9 mm. long by 3 mm. wide at one end, and tapered to a point at the other end, being 1 mm.
Page 68 - That there were such creatures as witches, he made no doubt at all. For, first, the Scriptures had affirmed so much. Secondly, the wisdom of all nations had provided laws against such persons, which is an argument of their confidence of such a crime.
Page 146 - A person, duly authorized to practice physic and surgery, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he has acquired in attending a patient, in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity.
Page 77 - ... hypothetical question, both as a matter of sound principle, and of reason and justice. Neither party has a right to discard an important undisputed fact because the insertion of such fact may alter or vary the answer or opinion of the witness, to the prejudice of such party...