New England Medical Monthly and the Prescription, Volume 17

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1898
 

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Page 474 - A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics. — With Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and Their Employment Upon a Rational Basis.
Page 525 - A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth. 412 pages, 54 illustrations. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid. Per annum, in four clothbound volumes. $10.00. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.
Page 353 - ... cadaver. Successful candidates will be numbered according to their attainments on examination, and will be commissioned in the same order as vacancies occur. Upon appointment the young officers are as a rule first assigned to duty at one of the large marine hospitals, as at Boston, New York, New Orleans, Chicago, or San Francisco. After five years' service, assistant surgeons are entitled to examination for promotion to the grade of passed assistant surgeon.
Page 156 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Page 156 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides, we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Page 353 - The following is the usual order of the examinations: (i) physical, (2) oral, (3) written, (4) clinical. In addition to the physical examination, candidates are required to certify that they believe themselves free from any ailment which would disqualify for service in any climate. The examinations are chiefly in writing, and begin with a short autobiography of the candidate.
Page 353 - No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers or their agents within one year. The committee reserve the right not to make an award if no essay submitted is considered worthy of the prize.
Page 75 - Outlines of Rural Hygiene. For Physicians, Students and Sanitarians. By Harvey B. Bashore, MD, Inspector for the State Board of Health of Pennsylvania. With an Appendix on The Normal Distribution of Chlorine by Prof.
Page 94 - That the court erred in instructing the jury that if they found from the evidence that the defendant...
Page 73 - Elements of Latin. For Students of Medicine and Pharmacy. By George D. Crothers, AM, MD. Teacher of Latin and Greek in the St. Joseph (Mo.) High School; formerly Professor of Latin and Greek in the University of Omaha; and Hiram H. Bice, AM, Instructor in Latin and Greek in the Boys' High School of New York City.

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