Addresses and other papers.
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 1905
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
Subjects: Medicine
Table of contents: title: Early history of practical anatomy; History of the Philadelphia school of anatomy; Our recent debts to vivisection; Recent progress in surgery; The new era in medicine and its demands upon the profession and the college; The real rewards of medicine; Medicine as a career for educated men; Vivisection and brain surgery; Medical education; Advantages of an academic training for a medical career; Literary methods in medicine; Address at the unveiling of the statue of the late Prof. S.D. Gross; Semicentennial address in surgery before the American Medical Association; The debt of the public to the medical profession; The endowment of medical colleges; The ideal physician; Address at the Royal College of Surgeons of England at the conferring of honorary degrees at the centenary celebration of the granting of its present charter; Progress of surgery in the 19th century; The mission of a medical college; The duties and responsibilities of trustees of public medical institutions; The qualities essential to seccess in medicine; The cheerfulness of death; The need for increased endowments for medical instruction; Age and youth in medicine; Surgical reminiscences of the Civil War.