The Medical Independent: A Monthly Review of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 1Henry Goadby, Edward Kane, Moses Gunn 1856 - Medicine |
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Page 45 - It is derogatory to the dignity of the profession to resort to public advertisements, or private cards, or handbills, inviting the attention of individuals affected with particular diseases...
Page 182 - Gordian knot, and have declared boldly on subjects of which they are ignorant, yet it must be confessed, that in the understanding of the action of medicines and of their agency in the cure of diseases, we do not so much excel our ancestors. While other sciences are moving, and other inquiries progressing fast, this subject, so momentous in its applications, has, in spite of the earnest labours of a few able investigators, made after all but small progress.
Page 45 - ... suffer such publications to be made ; to invite laymen to be pre.sent at operations, to boast of cures and remedies, to adduce certificates of skill and success, or to perform any other similar acts. These are the ordinary practices of empirics, and are highly reprehensible in a regular physician.
Page 182 - Thus, for the proper perfection of medicine as a rational science, two things are in the main needed : the first is a right understanding of the causes and symptoms of disease ; the second, a correct knowledge of the action of medicines. Should our acquaintance with these two subjects be complete, we should then be able to do all that man could by any possibility effect in the alleviation of human suffering.
Page 234 - He shall, furthermore, accompany the whole with a drawing, or drawings, and written references, where the nature of the case admits of drawings, or with specimens of ingredients, and of the composition of matter, sufficient in quantity for the purpose of experiment, where the invention or discovery is of a composition of matter...
Page 316 - ... an independent national medical literature. Resolved, That we venerate the writings of the great medical men, past and present, of our country, and that we consider them as an important element of our national medical literature. Resolved, That we shall always hail with pleasure any useful or valuable work emanating from the European press, and that we shall always extend to them a cordial welcome, as books of reference, to acquaint us with the progress of legitimate medicine abroad, and to enlighten...
Page 182 - THE MODE IN WHICH THERAPEUTIC AGENTS INTRODUCED INTO THE STOMACH PRODUCE THEIR PECULIAR EFFECTS ON THE ANIMAL ECONOMY. Being the Prize Essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian • • Gold Medal for 1852.
Page 380 - He has no choice but to be submissive to this action taken upon him." "He'll have this fellow doing everything he wants him to, he's told what to do, when to do it, and how to do it— no will of his own, like a puppet on a string.
Page 288 - Mr. Blodget (then of the Smithsonian Institution) said of it (New York Journal of Medicine, Oct., 1853,) that "the temperature of evaporation at New York, at the time of greatest mortality in August, was from 80° to 84°, being higher than the maximum temperature of evaporation at New Orleans at any time in 1852, by 2*.
Page 261 - Refined sugar, from either cane or beets, is injurious to healthy teeth, either by immediate contact with these organs, or by the gas developed, owing to -its stoppage in the stomach.