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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 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 28 - Something of the glow of poetry may be detected in his professional writings. At all times, while acknowledging his indebtedness to foreign surgeons, Dorsey does not hesitate to criticize their prejudices and practice. Thus, in the preface to his Elements he says: "Great Britain and France have been foremost in the cultivation of modern surgery, but their deficiency in philosophical courtesy and candor has in some instances greatly retarded its progress. To illustrate this remark it will be sufficient...
Page 82 - Dr. Samuel Jackson, Professor of the Institutes of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania...
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 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).
Page 56 - March, large additions are made to their archives, usually badly written, not unfrequently ungrammatical, generally devoid of scientific information, and of no use to anybody, for it is not too much to say that not one in fifty affords the slightest evidence of competency, proficiency or ability in the candidate for graduation.
Page 58 - By JOHN EDWARDS HOLBROOK, MD, Professor of Anatomy in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, &c.