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What people are saying - Write a reviewWe haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Common terms and phrasesabdominal acid action aneurism appear application artery attended bandage become blood bone bowels brain calomel carotid cause cavity character child chloroform cholera Cincinnati College of Ohio Commercial Hospital committee condition continued cure death died discharged disease doses effect epilepsy examination fact fatal favorable fever fibrine fluid forceps fracture gangrene grain gypsum hemorrhage inches inflammation intestines iodine irritation labor Lancet larynx ligature limb lungs malignant Medical College Medical Society medicine membrane months morbid mucous membrane nature nerve nervous observed occurred operation ophthalmoscope opium organs pain paroxysm passed pathology patient peculiar periosteum physician pneumonia portion practice present produced Prof profession pulse quinine rectum remarks remedy removed result retina rheumatism skin stomach strychnia success surgeon Surgery symptoms taken teeth tion tissues tooth treated treatment tubercle tumor ulceration urine uterine uterus Vaccination vomiting wound Popular passagesPage 320 - The life of a sick person can be shortened not only by the acts, but also by the words or the manner of a physician. It is, therefore, a sacred duty to guard himself carefully in this respect, and to avoid all things which have a tendency to discourage the patient and to depress his spirits. Page 194 - The faculty of every regularly constituted medical college or chartered school of medicine, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates. Page 320 - A physician ought not to abandon a patient because the case is deemed incurable; for his attendance may continue to be highly useful to the patient, and comforting to the relatives around him, even in the last period of a fatal malady, by alleviating pain and other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance, under such circumstances, would be sacrificing to fanciful delicacy, and mistaken liberality, that moral duty, which is independent of, and far superior to, all pecuniary... Page 320 - ... may occur, and also tend to preserve the confidence of the patient. But unnecessary visits are to be avoided, as they give useless anxiety to the patient, tend to diminish the authority of the physician, and render him liable to be suspected of interested motives. Page 320 - His counsels, or even remonstrances, will give satisfaction, not offence, if they be proffered with politeness, and evince a genuine love of virtue, accompanied by a sincere interest in the welfare of the person to whom they are addressed. Page 364 - In conclusion, he submitted the following resolutions : — Resolved, That this Association earnestly and respectfully recommends : 1st. The universal adoption, whenever practicable, by our schools, of American works, as text-books for their pupils. 2d. The discontinuance of the practice of editing foreign writing. Page 187 - Pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. A Treatise on Pharmacy : designed as a Text-book for the Student, and as a Guide for the Physician and Pharmaceutist. Page 320 - For, the physician should be the minister of hope and comfort to the sick ; that, by such cordials to the drooping spirit, he may smooth the bed of death, revive expiring life, and counteract the depressing influence of those maladies which often disturb the tranquillity of the most resigned in their last moments. Page 194 - Delegates representing the medical staffs of the United States Army and Navy shall be appointed by the chiefs of the army and navy medical bureaux. The number of delegates so appointed shall be four from the army medical officers, and an equal number from the navy medical officers. Page 320 - ... other symptoms, and by soothing mental anguish. To decline attendance, under such circumstances, would be sacrificing to fanciful delicacy, and mistaken liberality, that moral duty, which is independent of, and far superior to, all pecuniary consideration. 6. Consultations should be promoted in difficult or protracted cases, as they give rise to confidence, energy, and more enlarged views in practice. |