History of American Medical Literature: From 1776 to Present Time |
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Page 38 - MD, Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, Medical Department of the University of Illinois, etc. Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Revised.
Page 48 - Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure of the Human Species...
Page 40 - A doctor who knows nothing of law, and a lawyer who knows nothing of medicine, are deficient in essential requisites of their respective professions.
Page 76 - NY, and when it became the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in 1813 he was appointed as its president.
Page 33 - Observations on the means of preserving the Health of Soldiers and Sailors...
Page 19 - Гоггеу afterwards filled many distinguished positions, among which may be mentioned that of professor of chemistry and botany in the College of Physicians and Surgeons in...
Page 5 - His collected writings passed through five editions and are easy to get. Rush " is the father not only of American medicine, but of American medical literature, the type of a great man, many-sided, far-seeing, full of intellect, and genius ; abused and vilified, as man hardly ever was before, by his contemporaries, professional and non-professional ; misunderstood by his immediate successors, and unappreciated by the present generation, few of whom know anything of his real character.
Page 21 - Dr. Samuel Jackson, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania...
Page 84 - I have recently been honored by a visit from a lady of typical modern intelligence, who consulted me about a fibroid tumor of the uterus ; and lest I should stray beyond my business, she was careful to tell me that Dr.
Page 60 - Indecision : a Tale of the Far West, and other Poems (1839) ; On the Cryptogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemic Fevers (1849), and Five Essays on Various Chemical and Medical Subjects (1858).