Albany Medical Annals, Volume 43

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Burdick & Taylor, 1922 - Medicine

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Page 28 - Some of the subtlest secrets of the seas seemed divulged to us in this enchanted pond. We saw young Leviathan amours in the deep...
Page 28 - But far beneath this wondrous world upon the surface, another and still stranger world met our eyes as we gazed over the side. For, suspended in those watery vaults, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the whales, and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to become mothers.
Page 124 - The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid ; but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory ; and the small-pox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 538 - That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, — -for we have no word to speak about it.
Page 495 - But perhaps it still is better that his busy life is done; He has seen old views and patients disappearing, one by one; He has learned that Death is master both of Science and of Art; He has done his duty fairly, and has acted out his part. And the strong old country doctor, And the weak old country doctor, Is entitled to a furlough for his brain and for his heart.
Page 93 - THE ST. LOUIS MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION The May meeting of the American Medical Association at St. Louis promises well toward being the largest in attendance of any of the association's sessions. Since the publication of the hotels in the Journal of the Association in December, inquiries and reservations are being made daily. The hotels and the Conventions Bureau are aiding the committee in a most satisfactory and helpful way to see that the Fellows are comfortably housed and accommodated....
Page 270 - Surgery, and approved of, and admitted by one of his Majesty's Council, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the King's Attorney-General, and the Mayor of the City of New York...
Page 84 - An accident is an event which takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event that proceeds from an unknown cause or is an unusual effect of the known cause, and, therefore, not expected.
Page 547 - O my dear wife, said he, and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me ; moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven ; in which . fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, i whereby we may be delivered.
Page 92 - Census, announces that 124,000 deaths were due to organic diseases of the heart in the death registration area of the United States in 1920, and if the rest of the United States had as many deaths from this cause in proportion to the population, the total number of deaths from organic diseases of the heart in the entire United States for 1920 was 151,000, while for 1919 the number is estimated as 138,000, or 13,000 less than for 1920.

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