American Practitioner and News, Volume 42

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1908 - Medicine

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Page 381 - Written. 4, Clinical. In addition to the physical examination, candidates are required to certify that they believe themselves free from any ailment which would disqualify them for service in any climate. The examinations are chiefly in writing, and begin with a short autobiography of the candidate.
Page 145 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them ; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 497 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
Page 381 - ... cadaver. Successful candidates will be numbered according to their attainments on examination, and will be commissioned in the same order, as vacancies occur.
Page 86 - Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture, to the Secretary of Agriculture.
Page 463 - No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The committee will return the unsuccessful essays if reclaimed by their respective writers or their agents within one year. The committee reserves the right not to make an award if no essay submitted is considered worthy of the prize.
Page 377 - DISEASES OF THE GENITO-URINARY ORGANS AND THE KIDNEY. By Robert H. Greene. MD, Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery at the Fordham University, New York; and Harlow Brooks, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical School. Octavo of 605 pages, profusely illustrated.
Page 373 - American Practice of Surgery. — A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery. — By Representative Surgeons of the United States and Canada.
Page 184 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 45 - A TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY. BY Isaac Ott, AM, MD, Professor of Physiology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia.

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