Medical Review, Volume 39

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1899

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Page 195 - ... service up to 40 per cent after twenty years' service. The tenure' of office is permanent. Officers traveling under orders are allowed actual expenses. For...
Page 357 - It is insoluble in water, but dissolves readily in alcohol and ether; and in much greater quantity in these liquids when hot, than when cold.
Page 144 - Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine, within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly to be a physician and to prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters
Page 96 - ... which indicates that the bladder is aseptic. 4. Partly fill the bladder with the following solution : Tincture of iodine compound, two drachms ; chlorate of potassium, half a drachm ; chloride of sodium, two drachms ; warm water, eight ounces. Let it remain a minute or so and then remove. This treatment should be used once or twice a day. Where I suspect extensive...
Page 145 - Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind, intended for the treatment of disease or injury, or who shall, by writing or printing, or any other method, publicly profess to cure or treat diseases, injury, or deformity by any drug, nostrum, manipulation or other expedient, shall pay a license of one hundred dollars a month, to be collected in the usual way.
Page 195 - 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 them for service in any climate. The examinations are chiefly in writing, and begin with a short autobiography of the candidate.
Page 143 - The Board of Health shall have supervision of the State system of registration of births and deaths as hereinafter provided ; they shall make up such forms, and recommend such legislation as shall be deemed necessary for the thorough registration of vital and mortuary statistics throughout the State. The Secretary of the Board shall be the Superintendent of such registration.
Page 156 - A Yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books of the leading American and Foreign authors and investigators.
Page 144 - Examinations may be made in whole, or in part in writing, and shall be of an elementary and practical character, but sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of the candidate as a practitioner.
Page 238 - Mariani" to business and professional men who complained of being gradually run down. The work of the office, the cares and worry entailed by business and the physical flaccidity brought on by overwork, all seemed to give way completely in a marvelously short space of time, despite the fact that the subjects continued uninterruptedly at their usual occupations.

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