Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1874 - 118 páginas
 

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Página 36 - ... in the same art, (if such may be had) or at least of some of the wisest and gravest then present, and consent of the patient or patients if they be mentis compotes, much less contrary to such advice and consent; upon such severe punishment as the nature of the fact may deserve, which law nevertheless, is not intended to discourage any from all...
Página 51 - And be it further enacted, That this act shall continue and be in force for and during the term of two years from the passing thereof. Approved June 25, 1798. AN ACT IN ADDITION TO THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF CERTAIN CRIMES AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.
Página 50 - Physician; and yet do demand excessive Fees and exact unreasonable Prices for the Medicines which they administer, and do too often, for the Sake of making up long and expensive Bills, load their Patients with greater Quantities thereof, than are necessary or useful, concealing all their Compositions, as well to prevent the Discovery of their Practice, as of the true Value of what they administer...
Página 51 - Medicine administered, be a simple, or compound, directed in the Dispensatories, the true Name thereof shall be expressed in the same Bill, together with the Quantities and Prices, in both Cases. And in Failure thereof, such Practicer, or any Apothecary, making up the Prescription of another, shall be nonsuited in...
Página 104 - Kearsly, an English surgeon of good talents, but of so unhappy a temper, that his presence banished cheerfulness from his family. He treated his pupils with great rigor and subjected them to the most menial employments ; to which, Dr. Bard has been heard to say, he would never have submitted, but from the apprehension of giving pain to his excellent mother, who was then a widow with seven children and a very moderate income, and from the encouragement he received from the kindness of her particular...
Página 37 - The Patroons and colonists shall in particular, and in the speediest manner, endeavor to find out ways and means whereby they may support a Minister and Schoolmaster, that thus the service of God and zeal for religion may not grow cool and be neglected among them, and they shall, for the first, procure a Comforter of the sick there.
Página 20 - M easels follow) is a disease in the blood, endeavouring to recover a new form and state. 2. This nature attempts — 1. By Separation of the impure from the pure, thrusting it out from the Veins to the Flesh. — 2. By driving out the impure from the Flesh to the Skin.
Página 41 - ... without the advice and consent of such as are skillful in the same Art, (if such may be had) or at least some of the wisest and gravest then present...
Página 17 - By a statute still in force, the barbers and surgeons were each to use a pole. The barbers were to have theirs blue and white, striped, with no other appendage ; but the surgeons, which was the same in other respects, was likewise to have a gallipot and a red rag, to denote the particular nature of their vocation.
Página 87 - An Act for erecting a Town on the North side of Patapsco, in Baltimore County, and for laying out in Lots, Sixty Acres of Land, in and about the place where one John Fleming now lives.

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