Author: Roberts BartholowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Annual Oration on the Degree of Certainty in Therapeutics
Author: Roberts BartholowSome Thoughts Concerning Disease and Recovery in Their Relation to Therapeutics
Author: Solomon Solis CohenPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260113221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Excerpt from Some Thoughts Concerning Disease and Recovery in Their Relation to Therapeutics: The Annual Oration Delivered Before the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland at Their Ninety-Eighth Annual Meeting, April 30, 1896 Mr. President and members OF the medical and chirurgical faculty: I thank you for your kind reception and for the honor which you have done me in asking me to address you upon this occasion. The comparatively brief period which has elapsed since I received your kind invitation has been unfortunately much encroached upon by col lege work, and especially the exhausting tedium of examinations, so that I have been compelled to set down hurriedly the thoughts I have wished to lay before you, and have lacked time to trim away redundancies and repetitions, supply omissions, or endeavor to impart rhetorical polish. Thus, from lack of opportunity to condense, that which was in tended as an exordium has grown into a dis course, and I shall have to content myself' with but a fragmentary presentation-bf the important practical applications of the prin ciples sought to be explicated. Some of the difficulties experienced in finding words and phrases that should embody in a definite and intelligible form the views I desire to submit for your consideration, are due to my own in adequacy; but at least a part of the defects and imperfections of the address may, I trust, be generously attributed to the fact that the present state of knowledge in medicine and collateral sciences does not furnish us with exact and definite words and phrases for the fundamental factors of many of the most im portant pathologic and therapeutic processes; or in other words, while in certain trains of observation and induction the first and last terms have been established with a reason able degree of certainty, intermediate terms are still in doubt and obscurity. 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.
The Therapeutic Perspective
Author: John Harley WarnerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400864631
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This new paperback edition makes available John Harley Warner's highly influential, revisionary history of nineteenth-century American medicine. Deftly integrating social and intellectual perspectives, Warner explores a crucial shift in medical history, when physicians no longer took for granted such established therapies as bloodletting, alcohol, and opium and began to question the sources and character of their therapeutic knowledge. He examines what this transformation meant in terms of patient care and assesses the impact of clinical research, educational reform, unorthodox medical movements, newly imported European method, and the products of laboratory science on medical ideology and action. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Medical Annals of Maryland, 1799-1899
Author: Eugene Fauntleroy CordellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Transactions of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland
Author: America's Botanico-Medical Movements
Author: Michael A FlanneryPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780789012357
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Discover a fascinating lost episode of American pharmacological history! A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book! The first comprehensive study of the American botanical movement, this fascinating volume recounts the rise and fall of nineteenth-century herbal medicine, the emergence of a second wave of interest arising from the counter-culture of the 1960s, and the recent herbal renaissance in the United States. In the 1840s the American medical establishment was under attack. Its opponents in the botanico-medical movement claimed that herbs and other natural cures were more effective and considerably safer than conventional medicine. They were right. Conventional medicine at the time consisted of ”heroic” doses of mercury and antimony, supplemented by Spanish fly and croton oil, with copious bloodletting as a treatment recommended for everything from mania to miscarriage. By contrast, many of the herbal cures espoused by the new wave of medicine were helpful or at least not actively poisonous. Unfortunately, the botanico-medical movement harbored its share of quacks as well. The history recorded in America's Botanico--Medical Movements includes useless or dangerous treatments as well as petty politics of the worst kind: schisms, public denunciations, physical brawls (with weapons up to and including small cannons), and vicious invective worthy of Hunter Thompson. The favored treatments and pharmacopias of Thomsonians, Neo-Thomsonians, physio-medicalists, and eclectic practitioners are all discussed in detail. In addition to its fascinating narrative, America's Botanico--Medical Movements offers hard-to-find source documents, including: a catalog of nineteenth-century medicinal plants the constitutions of several medical societies explaining their doctrines a libelous editorial attacking members of one of the schismatic groups patented formulas for fever medicines, emetics, enema preparations, and many other cures advertisements listing vegetable medicines for sale America's Botanico-Medical Movements provides a scholarly yet entertaining view of the rise and fall of a typically American medical movement. Pharmacists, historians, physicians, and herbalists will find instructive parallels between the nineteenth-century conflicts and the present-day battles between alternative medicine and the medical establishment. This fascinating book represents nearly 50 years of scholarship on the subject and offers the only comprehensive look at medical botany in this country.
American Medicine in Transition, 1840-1910
Author: John S. HallerPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252008061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of several people in a small Alabama town.
Bulletin of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and College of Physicians and Surgeons
Author: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1108
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