The Western Journal of Medicine and SurgeryPrentice & Weissinger, 1854 - Medicine |
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Page 148 - The secretaries of all societies, and other bodies entitled to representation in the Association, are requested to forward to the undersigned correct lists of their respective delegations as soon as they may be appointed; and it is earnestly desired by the Committee of Arrangements that the appointments be made at as early a period as possible.
Page 148 - ... this number. The faculty of every regularly constituted medical college or chartered school of medicine shall have the privilege of sending two delegates. The professional staff of every chartered or municipal hospital, containing a hundred inmates or more, shall have the privilege of sending two delegates, — and every other permanently organized medical institution of good standing shall have the privilege of sending one delegate.
Page 391 - ... but that degree which ordinarily characterizes the profession. And in judging of this degree of skill in a given case, regard is to be had to the advanced state of the profession at the time.
Page 148 - Each State, county and district medical society entitled to representation shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half...
Page 235 - Chinooks, and others near the sea, differs widely from that of the upper Indians, and appears somewhat less barbarous and cruel. A sort of cradle is formed by excavating a pine log to the depth of eight or ten inches. The child is placed in it on a bed of little grass mats, and bound down in the manner above described. A little boss of...
Page 312 - ... much value upon the nutritive substances contained in them, but merely upon those which are capable, indirectly, of nourishing, and those which induce greater activity of the nervous system and the brain. The mode of preparing coffee among the Germans, enables them to obtain, besides the empyreumatic oil, as much caffein as they can possibly obtain from it ; while in the preparation of tea, less attention is paid to the amount of thein, than to the etherial oil — the whole amount of which passes...
Page 137 - It would be well if these spiritualists would look down from the high stand which they have chosen, and deign to believe that there are some among those experimentalists who, clinging to matter and gathering their facts with ant-like industry from the lowly earth, notwithstanding that they have long held communion with the poet-philosopher Plato, and the philosophical natural inquirer, Aristotle, and have some familiarity with the Paraphrases of Hegel and Schelling, are yet unwilling to relinquish...
Page 148 - Association will be held in the City of St. Louis, on Tuesday, May 2d, 1854. The secretaries of all societies, and all other bodies entitled to representation in the association, are requested to forward to the undersigned correct lists of their respective delegations as soon as they may be appointed ; and it is earnestly desired by...
Page 391 - I shall have my action upon the case against him, without any warranty by the smith to do it well; for, it is the duty of every artificer to exercise his art rightly and truly as he ought.
Page 148 - The number of delegates so appointed shall be four from the army medical officers, and an equal number from the navy medical officers." The latter clause, in relation to delegates from the army and navy, was adopted as an amendment to the Constitution at the meeting of the Association held in New York, in May, 1853.