Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Medical Editor's Association, Issue 38

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Page 18 - My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan, and weak." The stout mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. "What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn ? " "Why, you shall say at break of day, 'Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 18 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the gates of Hercules ; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said : "Now must we pray, For lo ! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak — what shall I say?" "Why, say, 'sail on, sail on, and on.' " "My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly, wan and weak.
Page 41 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 53 - Pawlow, that in many instances "the physician gives a more correct verdict concerning physiological processes than the physiologist himself," and that "clinical observation will consequently always remain a rich mine of physiological facts.
Page 76 - To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts...
Page 47 - Even in this society, if any daring member has introduced a subject bearing on medical treatment, it has been with an apologetic air and humble mien, well knowing that if his remarks had any reference to the utility of drugs in the treatment of disease, they would be subject to good-humored banter, and received by those sitting in the seat of the scornful with amused incredulity.
Page 18 - Behind him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, Before him only shoreless seas. The good mate said: "Now must we pray, For lo! the very stars are gone. Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?" "Why, say, 'Sail on! sail on! and on!
Page 47 - Skoda's dictum of several years' standing, "that we can 'diagnose disease, describe it, and 'get a grasp of it, but we dare not expect by any means to cure it...
Page 20 - Galveston Medical Journal; Dr. Samuel Logan, New Orleans Journal of Medicine ; Dr. SS Herrick, New Orleans Journal of Medicine ; Dr. EW Jenks and Dr.
Page 20 - The cultivation of friendly relations, mutual assistance, community of effort and means, where practicable, in a system of receiving foreign exchanges, and of sending our own journals abroad ; in urging, with hearty concert, improvements in the present system of medical education, and a higher standard of preliminary education of those who desire to enter upon the study of medicine; the collection of vital statistics; the collecting of the names of all the regular physicians in the United States,...

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