S. Weir Mitchell: M.D., L.L.D., F.R.S., 1829-1914 : Memorial Addresses and Resolutions |
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Page 102 - ... medical education then existing in this country, and they help to explain why the results were so much better than the system. Young Mitchell's work in analytical chemistry in the spring and summer for two years and a few months in Brown's drug store must have afforded valuable training in accuracy. It is indeed startling to find in some rough autobiographical notes left by Weir Mitchell, for extracts from which I am. indebted to his son, Dr. John K. Mitchell, Jr., the statement of the father,...
Page 141 - When the Cumberland went down. And forests old, that gave A thousand years of power To her lordship of the wave And her beauty's regal dower. Bent, as though before a blast, When plunged her pennoned mast, And the Cumberland went down. And grimy mines that sent To her their virgin strength, And iron vigor lent To knit her lordly length, Wildly stirred with throbs of life, Echoes of that fatal strife, As the Cumberland went down. Beneath the ocean vast, Full many a captain bold. By many a rotting...
Page 18 - Dr. Mitchell is one of the most distinguished medical men in your country or in any country.
Page 152 - IDLENESS THERE is no dearer lover of lost hours Than I. I can be idler than the idlest flowers; More idly lie Than noonday lilies languidly afloat, And water pillowed in a windless moat And I can be Stiller than some gray stone That hath no motion known. It seema to me That my still idleness doth make my own All magic gifts of joy's simplicity.
Page 141 - HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN GRAY swept the angry waves O'er the gallant and the true, Rolled high in mounded graves O'er the stately frigate's crew — Over cannon, over deck, Over all that ghastly wreck, — When the Cumberland went down. Such a roar the waters rent As though a giant died, When the wailing billows went Above those heroes tried; And the sheeted foam leaped high, Like white ghosts against the sky, — As the Cumberland went down. O shrieking waves that gushed Above that loyal band,...
Page 122 - Reversals of habitual motions; backward pronunciation of words; lip whispering of the insane; sudden failures of volition; repetition impulses " ! As Dr. Mills remarks, " Mitchell is one of the few neurologists to whom well-deserved fame has come because of his contributions to therapeutics." He is doubtless best known to the lay public, as well as to a large part of the profession, by the introduction of that method of treatment which goes by his name, and consists in the systematic employment of...
Page 112 - This subject engaged his attention off and on for the next half century, and indeed had interested his father. An epochal result of this prolonged experimental study was the first demonstration by Mitchell and Reichert in 1883 of the so-called toxic albumins, to which class belong not only the snake venoms, but the bacterial and certain other plant poisons. Mitchell's reputation as a physiologist was established before he devoted himself to neurology, and this physiological interest continued throughout...
Page 116 - ... and that of his friend and contemporary, Dalton, are the most significant from the standpoint of systematic, productive investigation in American physiology before the laboratory era introduced by Bowditch and Newell Martin in the seventies. He was always ready to come whenever needed to the defense of the experimental method of research upon which depends the advancement of medical science and art. In 1863, during the Civil War, Mitchell, then...
Page 117 - we used well the terrible opportunities of those bloody sixties, and if you are today as enthusiastic, as industrious, and as fertile, you are to be congratulated." Beginning with Circular No. 6, on "Reflex Paralysis, " issued from the Surgeon-General's Office in March, 1864, there followed a series of joint publications, the most important being the memorable volume on Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves, (1864). That on "Malingering...
Page 147 - ... him, or could follow him, through the little errors of unthoughtful work, often great in result, which grew as he continued to do his slipshod tasks. Like all men who practice that which is part art, part science, he lived in a world of possible, and I may say of reasonable, excuses for failures ; and no man knew better than he how to use his intellect to apologize to himself for lack of strict obedience to the moral code by which his profession justly tests the character of its own labor.