Download or read book An Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of Tennessee at Its Eighth Annual Meeting at Nashville on the 7th of May 1838 Classic Reprint written by Lunsford P. Yandell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Medical Society of Tennessee, at Its Eighth Annual Meeting at Nashville, on the 7th of May, 1838 But I consume the time of the Society with stale truisms. Since they were recognized, and anatomy assumed the rank of paramount importance due to it as the basis of medicine, the profession has gone forward with a celerity unknown to any former age. The greatest improvements have beer made within the last thirty years, and are especially due to pathological anatomy. Hospitals and autopsies ushered in the new era, since which the science has advanced with a sure and vigorous step. A broader and clearer light has been beaming upon its philosophy, and greater certainty, safety and efficiency have been given to its practice. Human and comparative anatomy explaining the functions in a state of health, and the inspection of the dead body revealing the character of disease, while an extended and greatly improved chemistry has enriched its resources, medicine at the present day appears a new science, or an old one instinct with a more rational principle. It is among the curious facts with which history abounds, that this change was favored and accelerated by causes quite foreign to medicine, and which seemed at the time as hostile to science as to humanity. In the wars which for twenty years deluged Europe in blood, we find one of the chief impulses which led on to this revolution. The campaigns of Napoleon opened to his physicians schools of practical anatomy such as the world had not yet beheld, and his all-grasping mind embraced every interest which involved the fame of his country. The savans of the Republic made a part of the grand army, and traversed the earth with his resistless legions. The genius of science flew with his eagles from sea to sea, and collected treasures under every path of the sun. Medicine is enriched by the records of what his philosophers observed at the foot of the pyramids, and amid the Pontine marshes - under the burning sun of Syria, ah' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of Tennessee at Its Eighth Annual Meeting at Nashville on the 7th of May 1838 written by Lunsford Pitts Yandell and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Address on the Improvement of the Medical Profession written by Lunsford Pitts Yandell and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Address Read Before the Tennessee Medical Society at Its Twenty Third Session Classic Reprint written by John McClaran Watson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address Read Before the Tennessee Medical Society, at Its Twenty-Third Session The subject I have selected may seem a little strange, and the views which I shall offer will be found not to take the 'beaten-track.' I have no pack-horse to drive that cannot turn either to the right or the left - feeling free from all such restraints I shall move in all directions and through all kinds of by-paths. It certainly accords best with the principles and designs of this society not to trudge along the beaten way, over which so many have gone along with almost use less repetition, but to turn off in all directions whithersoever any thing new or valuable may offer itself, and bring all such materials at once before the society in such a way as to test, their value. I will now propose' my subject - The varieties of diseases of the same species. Diversity as well as sim ilarity is a law of diseases and should receive even para mount consideration. Whatever scientific advantage may have been gained by a nosological classification of diseases has been more than counterbalanced by the practical evil which it has occasioned; to say the least, practice has gained but little by it, on the contrary, it has in many instances suffered loss. Systematic writers, intent on classifying diseases accord ing to their outward signs of relationship, have greatly overlooked, or viewed with too little concern, the great field now presented, the varieties of the same disease - requiring for their production many general and local causes, acting sometimes from without and sometimes from within - engen dering varieties of the same disease almost as distinct from each other as are diseases of different classes. This is a broad proposition, one to which wordy nosology may object, but which sound practice must ever admit, for diseases of the same species often differ more in a practical point of view than do those of even different classes. Scientific ar rangements of diseases do not teach us how to cure them, nor indeed in the present state of medical science should it presume to do so. Then allow me to say that as medical science is at fault in that respect, let it be rather content with teaching us how it is that we cure any disease so that we may begin to regard our actually successful practice ra tionally as well as experimentally. Theoretical researches would then be confided in according to the rationale of known results. This would be a safe way - even false rea soning and erroneous conclusions would not effect known practical results; and if any errors obtained, they would be errors only of explanation. I would much prefer that the medical philosopher would explain to me the ra tionale of certain palpable cures, than to presume to teach me how to cure diseases according to a series of reasons assigned apart from practical experience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Relation of the Physician to the Public An Address Delivered at the Semi Annual Meeting of the East Tennessee Medical Society April 6th 1858 written by William R. Hurley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Relation of the Physician to the Public: An Address, Delivered at the Semi-Annual Meeting of the East Tennessee Medical Society, April 6th, 1858 The science of medicine forbids the conclusion that any particular disease is ever cured by any particular remedy. There are modifying circumstances which makes every case, that has ever occurred in the world, different. But the principles of the science are as firm as the everlasting hills. It is the knowledge of these principles, ' and their application to particular cases, which makes up the practice of medi eme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Popular Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of East Tennessee by J P Evans M D written by J. P. Evans and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Address, Delivered Before the Medical Society of East Tennessee by J. P. Evans, M. D: Together With the Rules of Medical Etiquet, &C Although this is the first time I have had the plea sure of attending a meeting of the Medical Society, yet I have ardently desired the success of the enter prise; and have not only desired it, but have endeavor ed, in some measure to promote it. I visited Knox. Ville in December, 1844, for the purpose of aiding in the organization of a Medical Society - the attempt failed; but I had the pleasure of calling the attention of the physicians of East Tennessee to the subject, through a publication which appeared in the Knoxville papers. The Object was consummated in the month of May following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Inaugural Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of the State of New York at the Capitol in the City of Albany on the 8th Day of February 1826 Classic Reprint written by James R. Manley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Inaugural Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of the State of New York, at the Capitol in the City of Albany, on the 8th Day of February, 1826 The profession which we have chosen is one of awful re sponsibility it puts in requisition, and gives continued em ployment to all the powers of the understanding, and all the kindly affections of the heart. The physician is not only obliged to be well informed, but his knowledge must at all times, be at command - not only to act with decision, when occasion requires, but to do ungracious acts, and such as will jeopardise his reputation if success should not attend the re sults to be well furnished for his profession is not only his duty, but his deficiency is his' sin his ignorance is his crime he is not only obliged to administer relief, but the relief must be extended in the best and speediest manner, and with the least possible suffering and if any thing can render the duty still more arduous, it is the conviction, that his feelings must be so disciplined by his judgment as in no case to be permit ted to control it. It is his exclusive business to shield from the dangers and assuage the pains of disease; to furnish the means which alone can give to life its enjoyment, or mitigate the sufferings which must inevitably terminate in death and to give additional force to all these responsibilities, there are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ninth Annual Introductory Address Delivered Before the Class of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville November 7 1859 Classic Reprint written by Charles K. Winston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ninth Annual Introductory Address, Delivered Before the Class of the Medical Department of the University of Nashville, November 7, 1859 A great difficulty connected with this subject, as already inti mated, is, that the action of medicine is a perfect mystery, especially to the uninformed. Hence priestcraft and witchcraft have been invoked, and a seventh son has been preferred to the most erudite physician. There is nothing in the appearance or the physical qualities of opium, or ipecac., which would indicate that the one would act upon the brain and the other upon the stomach. These facts are only known from observation. And we forget that in medicine, as any where else in nature, for every effect there must not only be a cause, but an adequate cause; and that consequently such medication as can of necessity produce no physiological change, can at all relieve disease, and that the therapeutical effect of a remedy is but the result of its physiological action. This point I think has been greatly obscured by establishing a difference between the therapeutical and physiological effects of remedies. I know that disease modifies the effect of a remedy; but still the tendency of every remedy is to produce the same physiological changes in health as in disease, and it is only by effecting physiological changes that health is restored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Minutes of the proceedings of the Medical Society of Tennessee at the third annual meeting written by Tennessee Medical Society and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The President s Address Delivered Before the Association of American Physicians at Its Eleventh Annual Meeting at Washington D C April 30 1896 Classic Reprint written by Abraham Jacobi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The President's Address Delivered Before the Association of American Physicians, at Its Eleventh Annual Meeting at Washington, D. C., April 30, 1896 The normal vital processes depend on two pow ers, the cells and the blood. The very structure and function of the former are acted upon or built up by the latter. Thusit appears as our master Virchow has lately pointed out, that finally we return to a species of humoral pathology, but not indeed to the crases and dia theses of old. For modern humoral pathology looks for the presence in the blood of actual agents mostly of chemical nature. Part of them has been shown to be so; in the case of others we have to rely on inferences. Still, with peptones, aceton, sugar, with acetic, lactic, oxalic, uric, and oxybutyric acids in the blood we are fairly ac quainted; and the discovery of Fraenkel's thy reo-antitoxin proves to what extent the action of the organic juices is mainly, if not altogether chemical. The interests of the practitioner and his patients, of medical science and the commonwealth, are equally served by these views when tested by practice. As an Association we have to deal with the interests of science and of the community; of the latter even more than it is willing to under stand or to admit. We, however, need not be exhorted to continue our work. The misunder stood sympathy with the alleged sufferings of ani mals, and the agitations of the anti-vivisectionists - no matter whether merely misinformed or fanat ical - must not swerve us from studying, from learning, and from serving mankind by combining our efforts for public purposes. The hygienic in terests of the community are, or ought to be, in our keeping. Your Association being the scientific representative of internal medicine in America, ought to be recognized all over the Union as the scientific law-giver. What the New York Acad emy of Medicine is calculated to become for New York City, this Association ought to be able to be for the Union and beyond it through the scientific labors of its members. In order, however, to at tain this destiny, let us not forget that medicine must be one and inseparable, now and forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book ADDRESS IN MEDICINE DELIVERED BEFORE THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA written by JACOB SOLIS. COHEN and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Nature in Disease written by Benjamin Eddy Cotting and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Nature in Disease: An Address Before the Norfolk District Medical Society of Massachusetts, at the Annual Meeting, May 12, 1852 It may be said, and with truth, that this is a difficult question to de cide - that single cases vary greatly in character - that the constitution and state of the patient are not the same, for any two individuals - that in its tendency, severity and complications, each case differs from every other; But all this does not alter the proposition. I From such cases we are constantly proclaiming the value of certain remedies, and deducing plausible theories of treatment. Aye, but the experiment - who will be bold enough to try it? The sin of omission in practice is the unpar donable of offences. To have tried everything that could be thought of is the impregnable retreat of the baffled practitioner, and a balmy seda tive to the bereaved. Nevertheless, until the benefits of the prescription over its omission be known, the administration of a drug is as great and as hazardous an experiment as the withholding of it. Who can say with truth that it is not even more dangerous? The popular reasoning, that it will do no harm if it does no good, may be sufficiently satisfactory to ignorant and officious bystanders, who seem sometimes to literally revel in an opportunity to crowd a patient's stomach with multifarious mix tures. And to load his person with offensive masses; but it will hardly bear the test of ordinary common sense. The suffering individual may prefer the trial at any risk, under the irksomeness of debility or the pangs of disease; but a compliance with his wishes, followed by recovery, is not proof positive that he has been benefited thereby. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Address Delivered Before the New York County Medical Society January 29 1861 Classic Reprint written by Henry Daggett Bulkley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the New York County Medical Society: January 29, 1861 It was not until the year 1844 that all restraints were removed from the practice of physio and surgery in our State, and the necessity of either education, degree, or license, swept off with one fell swoop. Ao cording to that act, no person shall be liable to any criminal prosecution, or to indictment, for practising physic or surgery without a license, except in cases of mal-practice, or gross ignorance, or immoral conduct in such practice. The immediate effect of this law was to disgust some, and discourage others, while the majority of those who commenced practice subse quently to the passage of that act availed themselves of the freedom from all restraint which it afforded them, and neglected to avail themselves of the rights and privileges which a connection with this society would have given them. While, therefore, but very few recruits have replenished our ranks, constantly being thinned by removals from the city, and still more by the ever busy hand of death, our list now embraces but a comparatively small portion of those now engaged in the active duties of our calling, and numbers not more than one quarter of what it did in 1843, with probably double the number of educated practitioners in our city at the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
