The Philadelphia Medical Register and Directory, 1884-85

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William Biddle Atkinson
Collins, 1884 - Physicians - 259 pages

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Page 73 - The delegates shall receive their appointment from permanently organized State Medical Societies, and such County and District Medical Societies, as are recognized by representation in their respective State Societies, and from the Medical Department of the Army and Navy of the United States.
Page 223 - Charter of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the Church of England, in America...
Page 248 - ... bodies, required to be buried at the public expense, are hereby required to notify the said board of distribution or such person or persons as may, from time to time, be designated by said board or its duly authorized officer or agent, whenever any such...
Page 127 - The guardians for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn...
Page 247 - An Act for the promotion of medical science by the distribution and use of unclaimed human bodies for scientific purposes through a board created for that purpose, and to prevent unauthorized uses and traffic in human bodies.
Page 189 - Orphans' Home and Asylum for the Aged and Infirm of the Evangelical Lutheran Church," at Germantown, Philadelphia, the sum of dollars.
Page 250 - Commonwealth, nor any county or municipality, n.or any officer, agent, or servant thereof, shall be at any expense by reason of the delivery or distribution of any such body, but all the expenses thereof, and of said board of distribution, shall be paid by those receiving the bodies, in such manner as may be specified by said board of distribution, or otherwise agreed upon.
Page 75 - All members shall be elected as follows : Each candidate for admission shall first be proposed to the Executive Committee in writing (which may be done at any time), with a statement of the business or profession and special qualifications of the person so proposed. On recommendation of a majority of the committee, and...
Page 114 - York, for the purpose of cultivating, improving and making known a knowledge of pharmacy, its collateral branches of science, and the best modes of preparing medicines and their compounds, and of giving instruction in the same, by public lectures, and may hold real and personal estate to an amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars.
Page 122 - Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine number fifty-four of the pamphlet laws of that year as provides "that insane persons may be placed in a hospital for the insane by their legal guardians or by their relatives or friends in case they have no guardians but never without the certificate of two or more reputable physicians after a personal examination made within one week of the date thereof and this certificate to be duly acknowledged and sworn to or affirmed before some magistrate or...

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