The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2J. & A. Churchill, 1879 - Medicine |
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Page 48 - Provost and Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania.
Page 286 - The Degree of Doctor of Medicine may be conferred by the University of St Andrews on any registered Medical Practitioner above the age of forty years, whose professional position and experience are such as, in the estimation of the University, to entitle him to that Degree, and who shall, on examination, satisfy the Medical Examiners of the sufficiency of his professional knowledge : Provided always, that Degrees shall not be conferred under this section on a greater number than ten in any one year.
Page 289 - Britain are those of bachelor of medicine, (MB,) master in surgery, (CM,) and doctor of medicine, (MD...
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Page 193 - I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and, simple diet. Every animal, but man, keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way ; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.
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Page 124 - ... Guardian, throws light on a question which is not only of great interest in itself, but which has been brought into prominence through the controversies excited by Macaulay's famous picture of the clergy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Last comes what is by general consent acknowledged to be one of the most valuable contributions ever made to the literature of proverbs, Franklin's summary of the maxims in Poor Richard's Almanack. Our first excerpt is the preface to a work which is...
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