Download or read book An Introductory Lecture on the Treatment of Disease Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College in Boston November 3 1852 written by Jacob BIGELOW and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book An Introductory Lecture on the Treatment of Disease written by Jacob Bigelow and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introductory Lecture Delivered in the University of London on Thursday October 2 1828 written by John Conolly and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Clinical Contributions to the Investigation and Treatment of General Disease written by Charles Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lecture Introductory to the Course of Materia Medica Therapeutics in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College Session 1850 51 written by Henry Stuart Patterson and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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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 An Introductory Lecture to the Course of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College For the Session of 1848 49 written by John Wiltbank and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introductory lecture to the class of the Hom opathic Medical College of Pennsylvania written by William Sheaff Helmuth and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Introductory Lecture delivered in the University of London October 2 1828 On the nature and treatment of diseases written by John Conolly and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Lecture Introductory to a Course on Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children written by Gunning S. Bedford 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 A Lecture, Introductory to a Course on Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children: Delivered November 5, 1848 Allow me to ofi'er my salutations, and extend to you all a cor dial and earnest welcome to the halls of this University. You have assembled for the purposes of instruction and self-improvement and you have visited this school of medicine in the full hope that the prin ciples of your profession will be properly inculcated, and its great dogmas, as transmitted to us by the venerable and learned fathers of our science, faithfully expounded. These are duties which our posi tion necessarily calls upon us to discharge - duties too sacred to be re. Garded lightly, for they involve consequences momentous not only to you, but to those, also, who are hereafter to be confided to your profes. Sional care. In this school, then, you are to learn the principles which are to guide you in the treatment of disease and may they, in the hour of peril, when all around is gloom and darkness, prove beacon-lights to illumine your way to truth and science; may they, under those try ing circumstances, redeem the pledge which we make to you this night, to spare no effort, shrink from no labor necessary for the zeal ous and faithful performance of the trust imposed on us as your in structors. To the Faculty of this Institution has been delegated the high privilege of preparing you for the emergencies of professional life; soon you will be called upon to exhibit, through your acts, testi mony of the fidelity with which you have pursued your studies - testi mony, too, ofthe manner in which we, your teachers, have discharged our duty. These are considerations which I know full well no mem ber of this Faculty can contemplate without appreciating, to the full extent, the fearful responsibility of his position; and whatever may be the feelings of my colleagues on this subject - I know they are deep and abiding - allow me to say, for myself personally, that I never enter on the performance of duty in this University, without a senti. Ment of apprehension and distrust. It will, however, be my earnest care to consecrate to your service every energy of my mind; and feeling, as I do, an undisguised interest in your advancement, you may rely on my best efforts to impress upon you the principles and practice of the department assigned to me in this Institution. 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 to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania written by William A. Gardiner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Class of the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania: Delivered October 16, 1851 A correct knowledge of the bones of the pelvis, the diameters of the superior and inferior straits, with the situation and strength of the various ligaments, is indispensable to the accoucheur, and for the skillful and successful treatment of the diseases of, females, definite information respecting situation and structure is required. 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 Pathophysiology of Disease An Introduction to Clinical Medicine 7 E ENHANCED EBOOK written by Gary D. Hammer and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-color, case-based review of the essentials of pathophysiology--covering all major organs and systems The goal of this trusted text is to introduce you to clinical medicine by reviewing the pathophysiologic basis of 120 diseases (and associated signs and symptoms) commonly encountered in medical practice. The authors, all experts in their respective fields, have provided a concise review of relevant normal structure and function of each body system, followed by a description of the pathophysiologic mechanisms that underlie several common diseases related to that system. Each chapter of Pathophysiology of Disease concludes with a collection of case studies and questions designed to test your understanding of the pathophysiology of each clinical entity discussed. These case studies allow you to apply your knowledge to specific clinical situations. Detailed answers to each case study question are provided at the end of the book. This unique interweaving of physiological and pathological concepts will put you on the path toward thinking about signs and symptoms in terms of their pathophysiologic basis, giving you an understanding of the "why" behind illness and treatment. Features 120 case studies (9 new) provide an opportunity for you to test your understanding of the pathophysiology of each clinical entity discussed Checkpoint questions provide review and appear in every chapter Updates and revisions throughout this new edition reflect the latest research and developments Numerous tables and diagrams encapsulate important information Updated references for each chapter topic Pathophysiology of Disease is a true must-have resource for medical students preparing for the USMLE Step 1 exam, as well as students engaged in their clerkship studies. House officers, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians’ assistants, and allied health practitioners will find its concise presentation and broad scope a great help in facilitating their understanding of common disease entities.
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