The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Vol. CXI

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Page 94 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Page 50 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 392 - Inasmuch as the Dominion of Canada is equally interested with the United States in protecting itself and the United States from the importation of dangerous diseases, we suggest that Congress take such measures as will bring about concerted action with the Dominion and the British Government by which the consuls of this country or of England at foreign ports shall examine and take such action as they may deem effective, and notify the authorities of...
Page 392 - The removal of local unsanitary conditions favorable to the development of cholera is the especial work of state and local boards of health. Much has been done already in some states, but much remains which should receive immediate attention. Where it can be done. State Sanitary Inspectors should be appointed to visit all towns and cities specially liable" to the disease, to counsel with the local authorities as to the best methods of prevention.
Page 204 - The National Dispensatory. Containing the Natural History, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Actions and Uses of Medicines, including those recognized in the Pharmacopoeias of the United States, Great Britain and Germany, with numerous references to the French Codex.
Page 164 - OFFICIAL LIST OF CHANGES IN THE STATIONS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS SERVING IN THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, UNITED STATES ARMY, FROM AUGUST 2, 1884, TO AUGUST 8.
Page 82 - ... earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese wheat yields a hundred and twenty fold. There is no guano comparable in fertility to the detritus of a capital.
Page 400 - Committee seeks to attain through the collective investigation of disease are to widen the basis of medical science, to gather and store the mass of information that at present goes to waste, to verify or correct existing opinions, to discover laws where now only irregularity is perceived, to amplify our knowledge of rare affections, and to ascertain such points as the geographical distribution of diseases and their modifications in different districts. It will be its endeavor to place clearly before...
Page 65 - For the other classes, who are estimated as losing the other 9,000,000 weeks' work, it would be hard and unfair to make a guess in any known coin, for these include our great merchants, our judges and lawyers and medical men, our statesmen and chief legislators ; they include our poets and writers of all kinds, musicians, painters and philosophers ; and our princes, who certainly do more for the wealth and welfare of the country than can be told in money.
Page 44 - Previously to receiving the premium awarded the author of the successful dissertation must transfer to the Trustees all his right, title, and interest in and to the same for the use, benefit, and behoof of the Fiske Fund.

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