Brooklyn Medical Journal, Volume 20

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Medical Society of Company of Kings, 1906 - Medicine
Includes transactions of other medical societies.

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Page 278 - Sick or healthful, slave or free, Wealthy, or despised and poor— What is that to him or thee, So his love to Christ endure ? When the shore is won at last, Who will count the billows past...
Page 169 - The rule of reasonable care and diligence does not require the exercise of the highest possible degree of care, and to render a physician...
Page 279 - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.
Page 272 - But baffled as thou wert from high, Still in thy patient energy, In the endurance, and repulse Of thine impenetrable Spirit, Which Earth and Heaven could not convulse, A mighty lesson we inherit...
Page 205 - The most common modes of infection during early childhood are perhaps the following: The consumptive mother caresses the child and kisses it on the mouth ; she prepares the food, tasting it to judge its temperature and flavor, through the same rubber nipple or with the same spoon the child uses, and thus unconsciously conveys the germs of her disease from her own mouth to that of the child. Later on the child will play on the floor of the room, and should there be a consumptive in the family, who...
Page 169 - Upon consenting to treat a patient, it becomes his duty to use reasonable care and diligence in the exercise of his skill and the application of his learning to accomplish the purpose for which he was employed. He is under the further obligation to use his best judgment in exercising his skill and applying his knowledge.
Page 42 - Tuberculosis and the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society of The City of New York, at the Museum of Natural History, from November 27 to December 9, 1905.
Page 271 - TG Morton, inventor and revealer of anaesthetic inhalation. By whom pain in surgery was averted and annulled. Before whom in all time surgery was agony. Since whom science has control of pain.
Page 167 - Slight initial lesion in the form of infiltration limited to the apex or a small part of one lobe. " No tuberculous complications. Slight or no constitutional symptoms (particularly including gastric or intestinal disturbances or rapid loss of weight). " Slight or no elevation of temperature or acceleration of pulse at any time during the twenty-four hours, especially after...
Page 205 - Do not put your fingers into your mouth. Do not pick your nose or wipe it on your hand or sleeve. Do not wet your fingers in your mouth when turning the leaves of books. Do not put pencils in your mouth or wet them with your lips.

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