College and Clinical Record, Volume 4

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1883
 

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Page 16 - MEDICAL ELECTRICITY. A Practical Treatise on the Applications of Electricity to Medicine and Surgery. By ROBERTS BARTHOLOW, AM, MD, LL. D., Professor of Materia Medica and General Therapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, etc.
Page 226 - Report on Medical Education, Medical Colleges, and the Regulation of the Practice of Medicine in the United States and Canada, 1765-1891.
Page 77 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 259 - By James Nevins Hyde, AM, MD, Professor of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases in Rush Medical College, Chicago.
Page 263 - The general rule, therefore, is that a lunatic or a person affected with insanity is admissible as a witness if he have sufficient understanding to apprehend the obligation of an oath, and to be capable of giving a correct account of the matters which he has seen or heard in reference to the questions at issue; and whether he...
Page 22 - In the April following, Dover took Ginaguil, a city or town of Peru, by storm. In December, 1709, the two privateers took a large and valuable prize, a ship of 20 guns and 190 men, in which Dover removed from the " Duke," taking Alexander Selkirk with him as master, and finally reaching England in October, 1711.
Page 189 - If he makes parties, it is to soft-soap the people to get their money ; if he does not make them, he is afraid of a cent ! If his horse is fat, it is because he has nothing to do ; if he is lean, it is because he is not taken care of.
Page 13 - ... seem advisable to continue the treatment. That the thialion caused the expulsion of the concretions, there can be no question. The patient complained of a severe renal colic the night before the crystals were voided, evidencing their passage through the ureters, from the kidneys into the bladder. In the January number of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Dr. Simon has presented an exceedingly interesting and instructive article on the subject of Cystinuria, and has tabulated 107 cases—which...
Page 227 - An act for the appointing of physicians and surgeons," — after reciting that " forasmuch as the science and cunning of physic and surgery (to the perfect knowledge whereof be requisite both great learning and ripe experience) is daily within this realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons, of whom the greater part have no manner of insight in the same, nor in any other kind of learning...
Page 115 - Not less important than the school-master, in the opinion of his townsmen, was the doctor. With the exception of the minister and the judge, he was the most important personage in the district. His professional education would now be thought insufficient to admit him to practice ; for there were then but two medical schools in the country, nor were they, by reason of the expense and dangers of travelling, by any means well attended. In general, the medical education of a doctor was such as he could...

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