Download or read book An Introductory Lecture Delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York November 6 1829 Classic Reprint written by John B. Beck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture, Delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, November 6, 1829 We add our solicitations, individually, for your compliance with 1 of the board of trustees, and are, respectfully, yours. 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 An Introductory Lecture Delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York Nov written by John B. Beck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture, Delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the City of New York, Nov: 5, 1830 In casting round for a subject on which I might address you on the present occasion, it has struck me that there could be none more appropriate than such an analysis of the study of medicine, mainly with a view of urging upon you its proper cultivation. The subject is one of interest and im portance, and to do full justice to it would require more time and discussion than could with propriety be appropriated to the present exercise. I shall therefore confine myself to a rapid notice of two or three important points, reserving the rest to some future opportunity. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered in the College of Physicians and Surgeons written by David Hosack and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the College of Physicians and Surgeons: At the Opening of the Winter Session, on the 7th of November, 1825 The numerous and varied character Of the diseases of a city containing nearly in habitants, cannot fail to furnish abundant sources of instruction to the medical student. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Upper Mississippi Session of 1849 50 Classic Reprint written by John F. Sanford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Upper Mississippi, Session of 1849-50 It is customary with those who desire to keep pace with the progress of reform in medicine, to place themselves in the attitude of apologists for any movement which may be regarded as having a tendency to obstruct this progress; and it may be expected that, in deference to a complaint that the multiplication of Medical Schools has a tendency to impair the dignity of Medical Science, we will favor the profession with the reasons which have impelled us forward in this enterprise. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Philadelphia College of Medicine written by Rush van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the Philadelphia College of Medicine: On Thursday Evening, November 2, 1848 As you make your curriculum of attendance you will observe that one portion of the topics which will be thus presented is theoretical, the other practical: the one furnishing you the basis of your knowledge, the other affording you a view of the opinions prevailing in the profession in relation to the most appropriate means of attaining the objects of the practitioner of the healing art. In the practical departments you will, as you advance, observe that the surgeon and obstetrician, pari passu, as they discover to you the various circumstances under which the great enemy of our common humanity, death, will offer himself for combat with your skill in their departments of the art, will place in your hands the weapons and appliances with which you should be provided for the encounter, and explain to you their uses; while in the practical department proper of medicine, which teaches the doctrine of the management of diseases that do not require manual or instrumental inter ference - so voluminous are the accumulations of centuries of observation and experience, that a subdivision of labor, hath, from time to which the memory of man reacheth not, been found necessary. 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 General Introductory Lecture written by Thaddeus A. Reamy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from General Introductory Lecture: Delivered in the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, on Tuesday Evening, November 1st, 1859 Eden has, through their influence, been very materially modified in its effects, upon the mother's Of our race. 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 On Recent Improvements in Surgery written by Thomas D. Mutter and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On Recent Improvements in Surgery: An Introductory Lecture to the Course on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, in Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Delivered November 3, 1842 Jobert's plan consists in the application of a ligature to all the principal arteries supplying the tumour, and the divi sion of its nervous filaments. According to him, by this process he has succeeded in curing four cases of cancer Of the lip, and one of the tongue. For myself, I can say no thing about the merits Of the practice from any personal experience, but entertaining the views which I do on the subject of cancer, I must say that where any operation is proper, a circumstance very rare indeed, complete excision Of the tumour is much to be preferred to any other mode of treatment. Lisfranc, in cases of superficial cancer, proposes to cure it by merely removing the diseased tissue either with the ligature or knife, leaving the organ upon which it happens to be located untouched. When the disease penetrates, or deeply involves an organ, he recommends excision Of the tumor, along with a certain portion of sound tissue. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered Before the Medical Class in Castleton Medical College at the Opening of the Fall Session 1842 Classic Reprint written by David M. Reese and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture Delivered Before the Medical Class in Castleton Medical College, at the Opening of the Fall Session, 1842 To prepare you to think correctly, and thus theorize for yourselves, it will be necessary to review the ancient and modern doctrines of general and special medicine, including the theories which have successively had their day among medical philosophers. These with the facts by which they were attempted to be sustained by their authors and adherents, will constitute the ground-work of the pres ent course. In this brief and cursory view of the past, which is all that our time will permit, you will find that much, very much which is true in medicine is as old as Hippocrates, many of his theories having been based upon observation and experience, and being there fore of necessity immutable. His errors were few and inconsidera ble, even as discoverable in the advanced state of our knowledge at this day, notwithstanding the disadvantages under which he pur sued his researches, ia ignorance of human structure, except so far as it could be revealed to him by the dissection of inferior animals. Under these circumstances we are constrained at this day to marvel, not at his errors, but that he could, by possibility, have acquired the knowledge, of which his writings give evidence. All modern physicians at the present day regard Anatomy, healthy and morbid, as constituting the elements of all the accuracy to which we can attain in medicine, and their theories are constructed by studying symptoms in reference to such anatomy, and by testing the powers of remedies by experience. It is upon facts such as these, that our science is now made rigidly one of induction. Simi lar facts have been accumulating for centuries, and as they are tan gible in their character, and susceptible of demonstration by every inquirer for himself, the constancy of their recurrence in the hands and under the eye of every observer, affords a protection against any considerable error or fallacy. 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 Introductory Lecture written by Henry J. Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture: Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College, November 6th, 1849 Gentlemen of the Medical Class: - We are assembled in obedience to a healthy custom. It is well that those who are interested in this institution, should meet together once in the year, to testify their good will to it, and to indicate by their presence that they feel an interest in its prosperity. We recognize here the guardians of the University; the flourishing condition of which is ample evidence of the fidelity and wisdom of their administration. Here are those who, at no remote period, were actively engaged in teaching the lessons of our art; indelibly associated with a pleasant period of our lives, and bound to many of us by claims to more than our regard. Some who look back as if it were yesterday to the time when like yourselves they stood at the threshold of our profession; when they imbibed at this fountain the early teachings of our science; come here to be reminded by each recurring year, of the lengthening interval which separates them from a period which never can return, and to awaken its memories. Winter nas assembled you from various distances and with various motives; animated by curiosity or impelled by duty; determined to accomplish an end, or yielding to a customary routine; but all imbued with a good and friendly spirit, and ready to unite with the well-wishers of our institution, to promote its best interests. Occupying b relation to you, gentlemen, new to myself, and of the honor of which I am deeply sensible, there may be a propriety in devoting an hour, usually allotted to considerations of a general character, to an exposition of some of the principal topics suggested by this relation; and it is my intention, with your permission, briefly to review our subject m its connections with science, and with the community. The Institutes of Surgery are its settled principles; and if we consider the character of the phenomena which are presented to us in the study of this science, and reflect how unappreciable are the agencies which constitute disease, we have good reason to be satisfied that there is any thing in a successive generalization so remote as to be called a principle, or so unequivocal in its character as to be considered settled, in our science. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Castleton Medical College March 8 1842 Classic Reprint written by James Mcclintock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Castleton Medical College, March 8, 1842 The Art of Healing is of ancient date. From the earliest ages men have sought to alleviate the pain of disease, and to ward off the stroke of death. In primitive times, rude as the art was, it assumed so high a dignity as to be associated with re ligion; the Priests were the first Physicians. And although a tolerablv rational system of practice was created by Hippocrates two thousand years ago, it is certain that up to a comparatively late period, even among civilized nations, to possess skill in the use of remedies was to secure the reputation, whether for good or evil, of mastering inexplicable powers, or of communing with the mysterious beings of another world. The Science of Medi cine is of later growth. The great Greek whom I have named, did, it is true, establish the fundamental principle of making ob servation the only rule in the treatment of disease; and since his time, in the course of centuries, there have been, as in all other branches of human knowledge, great men who have observed closely, thought profoundly, and by single discoveries assisted in preparing the way forthe true developement of the Science; but it is only within a very limited period, that the Newtonian prin ciple of arguing from phenomena without feigning hypotheses has been applied to this most important department of Science. Unfortunately for us, says Dr. Gedman, the perfection of' our Science is neither in proportion to its age nor to the revolu tions it has undergone. Yet this liability to change, both in doc trines and practice, is rapidly diminishing, as the diffusion of knowledge is promoted and extended by a more correct study of Nature. The charge of being a conjectural Art, must, at no dis tant period cease to be applicable, and the resources of our Sci ence know neither limit or circumscription, if all who engage in its cultivation be properly zealous in their exertions and true to the trusts they assume. There are at this day, Gentlemen, in our profession, many men who are thus true to the high trusts which they assumed on entering it. Through their labors the stock of medical truths is dai increasing, and that, too, by the application of the only legitimate mode of enlarging the bounda ries of our Science, an extensive induction of facts, the results of patient observation. And I have made these remarks, in or der to impress upon your minds, now, on the threshold of your studies, that the very basis of your Medical Education, is to be laid in the doctrine that our Science is an assemblage offacts as certained by observation. These may be combined into systems, or, for the sake of clearness and method, - generalized under some form of theory, but all speculation beyond these limits is less than nothing and vanity. Men may theorise elsewhere, but here they must not; the day for Medical hypotheses is over, The reproach of uncertainty has been deserved long enough. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Albany Medical College in the Anatomical Theatre January 2 1839 Classic Reprint written by David Meredith Reese and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Albany Medical College, in the Anatomical Theatre, January 2, 1839 Contemplating this brief summary, which is but a feint and imperfect outline of the collateral departments im mediately connected with the duties of our profession, we cannot fail to be impressed with the elevated and profound qualifications it demands; nor can we suppress an involuntary shudder at the hardihood of the illiterate empiric, who ventures upon the high responsibilities of the divine art of healing, without preliminary, and even without thorough education. Indeed it is not the least among the wonders of the age, that intelligent and eu lightened men Will commit their own persons, their wives and little ones, their stomachs, lungs and brains, to the terrific experiments of quackery, until they become the self-immolated victims of these murderers of the human race. 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 The Study of Medicine written by Thomas Duché Mitchell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study of Medicine: An Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the Hall of the Philadelphia College of Medicine, October 15th, 1849 Cyprian. Alas! Much pains must we expend on one alone, and even then attain it not; but you have the presumption to assert, that you know many, without study. Demon. And with truth, for in the country whence I come, sciences require no learning; they are known. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Castleton Medical College on the 10th April 1843 Classic Reprint written by James Mcclintock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the Castleton Medical College, on the 10th April, 1843 It would be both interesting and instructive to examine each of these departments, and show their intimate con nection and mutual dependence; but as such an investiga tion would far transcend the limits of the present discourse, I shall confine myself to those which will be the partien lar subjects of our study during the ensuing course of lec tures here: namely, Anatomy and Operative Surgery. To a brief notice of these branches of science, and of the manner in which I shall try to teach them, the remainder of this address will be devoted. 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 Introductory Lecture Delivered in the Philadelphia College of Medicine on Saturday Evening November 4 1848 Classic Reprint written by Christopher Christian Cox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture, Delivered in the Philadelphia College of Medicine, on Saturday Evening, November 4, 1848 During the mediaeval ages, science and literature declined together. Indeed until the ninth century no advances of note were placed on record. Rhazes the Arabian, who first described small pox and measles, and his immediate successor the accomplished and erudite Ali Abbas, deserve a passing notice. 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 Introductory Lecture written by Robley Dunglison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-12 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture: Delivered to the Class of Institutes of Medicine, in Jefferson Medical College, October 19th, 1848 Although habituated, for a long series of years, to meet a class of medical students, such an occasion as this never fails to produce ln me mixed emotions. Nor do I envy the teacher who can enter unmoved upon such arduous and responsible duties as devolve upon me here. Did not the generous greet ings of young, warm-hearted disciples agitate him - whilst they at the same time encourage him to put forth all his efforts in their behalf, that he may enable them to fulfil the elevated pur poses for Which they left the paternal roof. 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 Introductory Lecture on the Treatment of Disease written by Jacob Bigelow and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture on the Treatment of Disease: Delivered Before the Medical Class at the Massachusetts Medical College, in Boston, November 3, 1852 It would at first seem that the exact sciences were those most worthy the cultivation of intelligent minds, inasmuch as they lead to satisfactory, and therefore to gratifying results; and because, in their more elevated departments, they involve and require some of the highest reaches of the human intellect. But in the opinions of mankind, as evinced by their practice, the opposite judgment prevails, and probably nine-tenths of the labor of educated and intellectual men, are employed on studies which are, in their nature, un certain and conjectural. The cause of this great ascendancy in the attention given to the inexact sciences, is to be found in the vast and paramount importance of their subjects, and also in the difficulty of consummating their great ends. It is much more important to mankind to know how to avoid anarchy and crime, war, famine, poverty and pestilence, than it is to know that the planet Saturn has a ring, or that a lily has six stamens, that light can be polarized, or that potass can be decomposed. Yet while the latter propositions are susceptible of absolute demonstration, the former processes, which bear directly on human happiness or misery, are fre quently removed beyond our foresight or control. The wisest men often fail to influence the destinies of states, families, and individuals, and the shrewdest calculators are baffled in regard to a coming crop, apecuniary crisis, a glut in the commercial market, or a change in the public morals. Nevertheless, the wise man conscious of superior talent, and the phi lanthropist desirous of the public weal, and even the interested man who looks to his personal advantage and progress, must give themselves and their energies to studies which involve the immediate wants of their fellow-men, even though their best directed efforts should fail of the desired results. And the simple reason is, that if the best qualified minds decline to undertake this task, it will most assuredly be assumed by the ignorant and presumptuous. 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.
