Maryland Medical Journal: Medicine and Surgery, Volume 39

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Page 637 - Each essay must be typewritten, distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto and containing the name and address of the writer. 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 reserves the right not to make an award if no essay submitted is considered worthy of the prize.
Page 647 - 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...
Page 713 - The golden ripple on the wall came back again, and nothing else stirred in the room. The old, old fashion! The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion — Death!
Page 866 - Revised and Edited by Louis Starr, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia.
Page 792 - RCS (Hon.), Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, etc.
Page 647 - ... the smallpox 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 541 - 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 761 - ... injections of salt solution. 2. The hysterical condition which is so commonly found present should be controlled by strengthening the will and influencing the dominant ideas of the patient. 3. All sources of peripheral irritation should be discovered and treated. 4. In extreme cases subcutaneous saline injections serve the threefold purpose of (a...
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Page 677 - States are exempt from the provisions of section 2 of the act granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine Hospital Service...

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