Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Volume 24

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Society, 1913 - Medicine
 

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Page 283 - Commonwealth, thousands of lives are lost which might have been saved ; — that tens of thousands of cases of sickness occur, which might have been prevented; — that a...
Page 11 - LUPTON, it was voted that a committee be appointed by the President to prepare a message of greeting to the British Association, to be sent by cable.
Page 283 - ... length of human life may be very much extended, and its physical power greatly augmented; that in every year, within this Commonwealth, thousands of lives are lost which might have been saved; that tens of thousands of cases of sickness occur, which might have been prevented; that a vast amount of unnecessarily impaired health, and physical debility, exists among those not actually confined by sickness; that these preventable evils require an enormous expenditure and loss of money, and impose...
Page 5 - By a self-limited disease, I would be understood to express one which receives limits from its own nature, and not from foreign influences: one which, after it has obtained foothold in the system, cannot, in the present state of our knowledge, be eradicated or abridged by art...
Page 204 - Clouston says more specifically, " the melancholiacs are more depressed, the maniacal more restless, the delusional more under the influence of their delusions in their conduct, those subject to hallucinations have them more intensely, the impulsive cases are more uncontrollable, the cases of stupor more stupid, and the demented tend to be excited,
Page 11 - Association to the effect that "after January 1, 1914, all Colleges to be included in Class A must require for admission not less than one year of college credits in chemistry, biology, physics and a modern language, or two or more years of work in a college of liberal arts, in addition to the accredited four-year high school course.
Page 283 - XXVIII. We recommend that the causes of consumption, and the circumstances under which it occurs, be made the subject of particular observation and investigation.
Page 320 - I do not know that I can throw any light on the subject of this paper. But my attention was drawn to some remarks made by the Rev. Mr. Lawes, which, taken in conjunction with the habits of the Caffirs and Zulus in South Africa, may be interesting. There the natives, on first coming in contact with civilisation, were equally obnoxious to axes or, indeed...
Page 204 - ... arrested for opposition to the police, or for assault, only 9 were not at the menstrual period. Legrand du Saulle found that out of 56 women detected in theft at shops in Paris, 35 were menstruating. There is no doubt that suicide in women is specially liable to take place at this period; Krugelstein stated that in all cases (107) of suicide in women he had met with, the act was committed during the monthly period, and although this cannot be accepted as a general rule (especially when we bear...
Page 204 - the maniacal more restless, the delusional more under the influence of their delusions in their conduct; those subject to hallucinations have them more intensely, the impirisive cases are more uncontrollable, the cases of stupor more stupid, and the demented tend to be excited.

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