Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 14

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American Medical Association., 1890 - American Medical Association
Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.

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Page 228 - That there wasn'ta chance for one to start. For the wheels were just as strong as the thills, And the floor was just as strong as the sills, And the panels just as strong as the floor, And the whippletree neither less nor more, And the back crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore.
Page 297 - Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears, Our most important are our earliest years ; The mind, impressible and soft, with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees, And through life's labyrinth holds fast the clue That Education gives her, false or true.
Page 357 - That in future each delegate or permanent member shall, when he registers, also record the name of the section, if any, that he will attend, and in which he will cast his vote for section officers." Secretaries of medical societies as above designated are earnestly requested to forward, at once, a list of their delegates.
Page 106 - A CLINICAL ATLAS OF VENEREAL AND SKIN DISEASES. Including Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment. In eight large folio parts, measuring 14 x 18 inches, and comprising 213 beautiful figures on 58 full-page chromo-lithographic plates, 85 fine engravings, and 425 pages of text Complete work now ready. Price per part, sewed in heavy embossed paper, $2.50.
Page 512 - It is a record of the saving of over one hundred lives per year from small-pox, four hundred lives per year saved from death by scarlet fever, and nearly six hundred lives per year saved from death by diphtheria — an aggregate of eleven hundred lives per year, or three lives per day saved from these three diseases! This is a record which we ask to have examined, and which we are willing to have compared with that of the man who 'made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before.
Page 468 - But in case of doubt or contest his decision in this class of cases may be appealed from to a board hereby constituted for the purpose, and composed of the Surgeon-General of the Army, the SurgeonGeneral of the Navy, and the Secretary of Agriculture, and the decision of this board shall be final in the premises.
Page 357 - Each State, county, and district medical society, entitled to representation, shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Page 357 - Members by application shall consist of such members of the State, county and district medical societies entitled to representation in this association as shall make application in writing to the treasurer, and accompany said application with a certificate of good standing, signed by the president and secretary of the society of which they are members, and the amount of the annual subscription fee, $5.
Page 358 - Value of the Gases in Medical and Surgical Practice, with Especial Reference to the Value and Availability of Oxygen, Nitrogen, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen Monoxide. By...
Page 392 - Diseases of the Bladder and Urethra. By DR. F. WINCKEL, Professor of Gynaecology and Director of the Royal University Clinic for Women, in Munich.

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