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Excerpt from Medical Education: The Annual Discourse Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Delivered December 29, 1852Many extravagant catalogues of preparatory studies have been issued by eminent physicians during the last few years, they con tain much that is not necessary, and much that can be learned far better in subsequent years, being used as instructive amusements in leisure or weariness. Poetry, the philosophy of history, me...

Excerpt from A Lecture on Medical Education: Introductory to the Course of the Institutes of Medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania, for the Session 1833-34Devoid Of self-sustaining principles, medicine was compelled to seek support from collateral aids. For a time, it reposed in the embraces Of Grecian philosophy, and was indebted for its funda mental dogmas to the doctrines Of the various schools, consti tuting the speculative science o...

Excerpt from Medical Education: The Annual Discourse Before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Delivered December 29, 1852Many extravagant catalogues of preparatory studies have been issued by eminent physicians during the last few years, they con tain much that is not necessary, and much that can be learned far better in subsequent years, being used as instructive amusements in leisure or weariness. Poetry, the philosophy of history, me...

Excerpt from An Essay on Suspended AnimationIt must, however, be acknowledged that all efforts at re suscitation, are often ineffectual, even in cases in which submersion has not long existed. It becomes, then, a question of much interest and importance, to be an swered, whether In these instances, the failure 18 not to be attributed to a defect in the method now employed for recovery, or to a total extinction of life.About the PublisherForgot...

Excerpt from An Essay on Suspended AnimationIt must, however, be acknowledged that all efforts at re suscitation, are often ineffectual, even in cases in which submersion has not long existed. It becomes, then, a question of much interest and importance, to be an swered, whether In these instances, the failure 18 not to be attributed to a defect in the method now employed for recovery, or to a total extinction of life.About the PublisherForgot...

Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course of Medical Institutes, in the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered November 4, 1842A very summary review of the nature, characters and distinctions Of those different phenomena, will now be pre sented to you, as the starting point of the investigations, that will occupy the course of this chair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Course of Medical Institutes, in the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered November 4, 1842A very summary review of the nature, characters and distinctions Of those different phenomena, will now be pre sented to you, as the starting point of the investigations, that will occupy the course of this chair.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Excerpt from Address to the Medical Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered April 3, 1840The present occasion is an honourable testimony in favor of your application, your diligent pursuit of your studies, of your proficiency in your professional knowledge, and general moral worth. Without satisfactory evidence on these points, the honours of this university are not conferred.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from Address to the Medical Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered April 3, 1840The present occasion is an honourable testimony in favor of your application, your diligent pursuit of your studies, of your proficiency in your professional knowledge, and general moral worth. Without satisfactory evidence on these points, the honours of this university are not conferred.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds...

Excerpt from Matchett's Baltimore Director, Corrected Up to June 1829: Containing an Engraved Plan of the City With References to the Public BuildingsHartley mrs Mary, Hil Hartley John, 'coinb m Hartman Samuel, ladie's'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Excerpt from A Discourse Commemorative of Nathaniel Champan, M.D., Late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine: Delivered Before the Trustees, the Medical Faculty, and Students of the University of PennsylvaniaDr. Chapman lost nothing by the comparison. He added greatly to his reputation.It is my impression that the courses delivered by him, during the two years be occupied the chair of Materia Medica, were a...

Excerpt from Matchett's Baltimore Director, Corrected Up to June 1829: Containing an Engraved Plan of the City With References to the Public BuildingsHartley mrs Mary, Hil Hartley John, 'coinb m Hartman Samuel, ladie's'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art ...

Excerpt from A Discourse Commemorative of Nathaniel Champan, M.D., Late Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine: Delivered Before the Trustees, the Medical Faculty, and Students of the University of PennsylvaniaDr. Chapman lost nothing by the comparison. He added greatly to his reputation.It is my impression that the courses delivered by him, during the two years be occupied the chair of Materia Medica, were a...

Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered Before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 22d of February, 1820Parmenides, Plato, and other philosophers question ed the possibility of acquiring knowledge by the senses, and preferred to it, that which can be obtained by the faculties of the mind. Pyrrho carried the spirit of scepticism to a greater extent, and believed that both means were equally deceptive. The extension of Pyrrhonism brought dialect...

Excerpt from An Oration, Delivered Before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the 22d of February, 1820Parmenides, Plato, and other philosophers question ed the possibility of acquiring knowledge by the senses, and preferred to it, that which can be obtained by the faculties of the mind. Pyrrho carried the spirit of scepticism to a greater extent, and believed that both means were equally deceptive. The extension of Pyrrhonism brought dialect...

Excerpt from Observations on Delirium TremensBut even suppose that in¿ammation exist in the stomach, accord ing to some, or in the brain according to others, or even in both, as it no doubt often does, is it not the merest madness to contend, in the present age of medicine, that the body thus diseased cannot be carried safely through without venesection? In typhus fever, and particularly in that form Of it so well known in New England under th...

Excerpt from The Principles of Medicine: Founded on the Structure and Functions of the Animal OrganismFrom this train of re¿exions the plan originally adopted was abandoned, and it was thought a more lasting and useful perform ance would arise by attempting, though the execution of the work must of necessity prove defective, the establishment of prin ciples Of general application, derived from an analysis Of the phenomena manifested in the str...

Excerpt from Observations on Delirium TremensBut even suppose that in¿ammation exist in the stomach, accord ing to some, or in the brain according to others, or even in both, as it no doubt often does, is it not the merest madness to contend, in the present age of medicine, that the body thus diseased cannot be carried safely through without venesection? In typhus fever, and particularly in that form Of it so well known in New England under th...

Excerpt from The Principles of Medicine: Founded on the Structure and Functions of the Animal OrganismFrom this train of re¿exions the plan originally adopted was abandoned, and it was thought a more lasting and useful perform ance would arise by attempting, though the execution of the work must of necessity prove defective, the establishment of prin ciples Of general application, derived from an analysis Of the phenomena manifested in the str...

Excerpt from Lecture, Introductory to a Course on the Institutes of Medicine, in the University of Pennsylvania: Delivered Nov. 5, 1844The mind in Which truth dwells, acquires knowledge only through the senses. It is abstracted from the outer and grosser world with which it is incapable of any direct relation. The senses are the media establishing the communication between the intel lectual faculties enshrined ill the interior recesses of the ...