Abstract of Minutes, Compiled by the Secretary of the Association, 1889-1895Association of Life Insurance Medical Directors of America, 1915 - 112 pages |
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Page 347 - These unfortunate moral defectives we generally find to be burdened with an evil heredity, a harsh, unrelenting tyranny of ancestral defect. Many of them are ignorant, and do not rise above the level of the feebleminded; in marked contrast, others are highly educated persons who assent to general propositions concerning right and wrong, and frequently delight to discuss moral customs and laws in order to exploit their casuistic and argumentative powers, but to them the concrete application of moral...
Page 87 - In the year 1842 he became the founder of the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men...
Page 338 - MD at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical department of Columbia University, New York City, in 1874.
Page 171 - Nothing is more clearly shown from this investigation than that the southern black man at the time of emancipation was healthy in body and cheerful in mind. He neither suffered inordinately from disease nor from impaired bodily vigor. His industrial capacities as a laborer were not of a low order, nor was the condition of servitude such as to produce in him morbid conditions favorable to mental disease, suicide, or intemperance.
Page 172 - In the plain language of the facts brought together the colored race is shown to be on the downward grade, tending toward a condition in which matters will be worse than they are now, when diseases will be more destructive, vital resistance still lower, when the number of births will fall below the deaths, and gradual extinction of the race take place.
Page 177 - I move that the Committee's report be accepted and that it be referred to the Executive Committee with power to act thereon.
Page 172 - The white race has great vigor, capacity and endurance. It has an intensity of will and desire which is controlled by intellectuality. Great things are undertaken readily, but not blindly. It manifests a strong utilitarianism, united with a powerful imagination, which elevates, ennobles and idealizes its practical ideas. The Negro can only imitate, the Chinese only utilize, the work of the white; but the latter is abundantly capable of producing new works. He has as keen a sense of order...
Page 86 - April ii, 1881, and received his early education in the public and high schools of that town.
Page 145 - Motion was made and carried that the reading of the minutes of the last meeting of the Association be dispensed with.
Page 332 - Motion was made, seconded, and carried that the reading of the minutes of the last meeting...