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245 00 a| Doctor's legacy :b| a selection of physicians' letters, 1721-1954 /c| edited by Laurence Farmer ; foreword by Leona Baumgartner.;

300 a| xvii, 267 pages ;c| 22 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.;

505 0 a| Medical practice; Smallpox inoculation / William Douglass -- Treatment of disease / George Cheyne -- Medical practice / John Mitchell -- Fundamentals of good medical practice / Oliver Goldsmith -- Medical education / Joseph Black -- Licensure / Hendrick van Beuren -- Advice to his son / John Bard -- Diabetes / William Cullen -- Treatment of cancer; Treatment of fever / William Hunter -- Medical practice; Treatment of tuberculosis; "Dieting" (gout); Advice to a patient / John Fothergill -- Medicine as a profession; Transplantation of teeth; Cause of tuberculosis; Advice to Boswell / John Coakley Lettsom -- Quackery / William Falconer -- Study of the "mind" / James Currie -- Medical education / William Heberden -- Medical care (War of American Revolution); Backwardness of science and the arts in America / John Warren -- Yellow fever; Medical advice to a patient; Treatment of insanity; Criticism of physicians; Advice to a young physician; Advice to his son / Benjamin Rush -- Yellow fever / William Thornton -- Yellow fever / William Drennan -- Smallpox vaccination / Edward Jenner, George Pearson, Edward Jenner -- Practice of medicine; Smallpox vaccination; Smoking; Quackery / Benjamin Waterhouse -- Practice of medicine / Charles Taft -- Advice to a patient / David Hosack -- War surgery / Sir Charles Bell -- Dissection; Views on the role of hospitals; Religious sentiments; Advice to his son / John C. Warren -- Auscultation / René Laënnec -- Advice to his son; Auscultation; Auscultation; practice of medicine; Influence of the mind on disease / James Jackson -- Auscultation; Cholera; Medicine as a science / James Jackson, Jr. -- Relationship of study of medicine and literature / Thomas L. Beddoes -- Medicine as a profession / Waitstill R. Ranney;

505 0 a| Treatment of the fatally ill; Limitations of medicine / Johann Stieglitz -- Advice to a patient; Relationship to patients / Samuel Hahnemann -- Treatment of insanity / John Conolly -- Introduction of ether anesthesia / John Ware -- Ether anesthesia; Chloroform / Sir James Y. Simpson -- Description of an operation without anesthesia / George Wilson -- Protest against demonstration of a delivery / 17 Buffalo physicians -- Status of medicine in the Midwest / William Matthews -- Practice of medicine; Quackery; People's disregard of their health / James Hinton -- Compensation of the physician / William T. Gairdner -- Childbed fever / Joseph Steiner -- Religious views; Introduction of antiseptic surgery / Lord Joseph Lister -- Queen Victoria and vivisection / Sir Henry F. Ponsonby -- Views on vivisection / Lord Joseph Lister -- Dangers of chloroform / J. Marion Sims -- Medicine in the Civil War / John G. Perry -- Women in medicine / Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Yellow fever / Richard D. Arnold -- Medicine as a profession / Jean Cruveilhier -- Early bacteriology / Robert Koch -- Importance of proper opportunities for research / Members of a medical faculty -- Medicine as a profession / Theodor Billroth -- Women in medicine; Advances in medicine in the 19th century / Henry I. Bowditch -- "State interference" in medicine / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Public acceptance of quackery / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Early endocrinology / Sir Henry Thompson -- Cause of cancer / Alfred Haviland; W. Gilchrist Burnie;

505 0 a| Medical articles in the daily press / Anonymous English physician -- Development of the knowledge of the neuroses / Sigmund Freud -- First use of tetanus antitoxin in Great Britain / Greville MacDonald -- Medicine and literature; Treatment of tuberculosis / Anton Chekhov -- Yellow fever / Walter Reed -- X-rays / Carl Beck -- Excesses of surgery / Edgar Trevithick -- Medical practice (Philosophy) / Anonymous physician; Lowis W. Palfrey -- On dying / Sir William Osler -- Retirement / Harvey Cushing -- War neuroses; A psychiatrist's reaction to the bombing of a hospital; Doctor-patient relationship / Thomas W. Salmon -- Control of infectious diseases (World War I) / David R. Lyman -- Public health / Hermann M. Biggs -- Opposition to psychoanalysis / Unidentified physician -- "Socialized medicine" / Arnold C. Klebs -- Euthanasia; "Unorthodox medicine" / Lord Berkeley Moynihan -- Development of penicillin / Leslie A. Falk -- Medical education (Philosophy) / John Grieve; Saul Jarcho -- "Socialized medicine" / Alex E. Roche -- Religious views / J. Jerrold Applegarth; J.C. Bacala -- Cigarette smoking as cause of cancer of the lung / Alton Ochsner -- Medicine in World War II / Robert E. Kaufman; Robert B. Hoenig -- Retirement / Frederic C. Sharpless.;

520 a| This present collection of personal letters of physicians is a unique literary contribution. The time covered runs from 1721 to 1954.;

650 0 a| Physiciansv| Biography.=| ^A477251;

650 0 a| Physicians.=| ^A5903;

650 0 a| Medicinex| History.=| ^A1143;

650 2 a| Medicinev| Collected Correspondence.=| ^A917894;

650 2 a| Medicinev| Collected Works.=| ^A917894;

650 2 a| Physiciansv| Collected Correspondence.=| ^A919472;

650 2 a| Physiciansv| Collected Works.=| ^A919472;

650 2 a| History of Medicine.=| ^A917891;

700 1 a| Farmer, Laurence,d| 1895-=| ^A72373;

700 1 a| Baumgartner, Leona,d| 1902-1991.=| ^A945142;

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Doctor's legacy : a selection of physicians' letters, 1721-1954 / edited by Laurence Farmer ; foreword by Leona Baumgartner.

Other author	Farmer, Laurence, 1895-
Other author	Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Harper & Brothers, ©1955.
Description	xvii, 267 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects	Physicians--Biography. Physicians. Medicine--History. Medicine--Collected Correspondence. Medicine--Collected Works. Physicians--Collected Correspondence. Physicians--Collected Works. History of Medicine.

Contents	Medical practice; Smallpox inoculation / William Douglass -- Treatment of disease / George Cheyne -- Medical practice / John Mitchell -- Fundamentals of good medical practice / Oliver Goldsmith -- Medical education / Joseph Black -- Licensure / Hendrick van Beuren -- Advice to his son / John Bard -- Diabetes / William Cullen -- Treatment of cancer; Treatment of fever / William Hunter -- Medical practice; Treatment of tuberculosis; "Dieting" (gout); Advice to a patient / John Fothergill -- Medicine as a profession; Transplantation of teeth; Cause of tuberculosis; Advice to Boswell / John Coakley Lettsom -- Quackery / William Falconer -- Study of the "mind" / James Currie -- Medical education / William Heberden -- Medical care (War of American Revolution); Backwardness of science and the arts in America / John Warren -- Yellow fever; Medical advice to a patient; Treatment of insanity; Criticism of physicians; Advice to a young physician; Advice to his son / Benjamin Rush -- Yellow fever / William Thornton -- Yellow fever / William Drennan -- Smallpox vaccination / Edward Jenner, George Pearson, Edward Jenner -- Practice of medicine; Smallpox vaccination; Smoking; Quackery / Benjamin Waterhouse -- Practice of medicine / Charles Taft -- Advice to a patient / David Hosack -- War surgery / Sir Charles Bell -- Dissection; Views on the role of hospitals; Religious sentiments; Advice to his son / John C. Warren -- Auscultation / René Laënnec -- Advice to his son; Auscultation; Auscultation; practice of medicine; Influence of the mind on disease / James Jackson -- Auscultation; Cholera; Medicine as a science / James Jackson, Jr. -- Relationship of study of medicine and literature / Thomas L. Beddoes -- Medicine as a profession / Waitstill R. Ranney
Contents	Treatment of the fatally ill; Limitations of medicine / Johann Stieglitz -- Advice to a patient; Relationship to patients / Samuel Hahnemann -- Treatment of insanity / John Conolly -- Introduction of ether anesthesia / John Ware -- Ether anesthesia; Chloroform / Sir James Y. Simpson -- Description of an operation without anesthesia / George Wilson -- Protest against demonstration of a delivery / 17 Buffalo physicians -- Status of medicine in the Midwest / William Matthews -- Practice of medicine; Quackery; People's disregard of their health / James Hinton -- Compensation of the physician / William T. Gairdner -- Childbed fever / Joseph Steiner -- Religious views; Introduction of antiseptic surgery / Lord Joseph Lister -- Queen Victoria and vivisection / Sir Henry F. Ponsonby -- Views on vivisection / Lord Joseph Lister -- Dangers of chloroform / J. Marion Sims -- Medicine in the Civil War / John G. Perry -- Women in medicine / Mary Putnam Jacobi -- Yellow fever / Richard D. Arnold -- Medicine as a profession / Jean Cruveilhier -- Early bacteriology / Robert Koch -- Importance of proper opportunities for research / Members of a medical faculty -- Medicine as a profession / Theodor Billroth -- Women in medicine; Advances in medicine in the 19th century / Henry I. Bowditch -- "State interference" in medicine / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Public acceptance of quackery / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Early endocrinology / Sir Henry Thompson -- Cause of cancer / Alfred Haviland; W. Gilchrist Burnie
Contents	Medical articles in the daily press / Anonymous English physician -- Development of the knowledge of the neuroses / Sigmund Freud -- First use of tetanus antitoxin in Great Britain / Greville MacDonald -- Medicine and literature; Treatment of tuberculosis / Anton Chekhov -- Yellow fever / Walter Reed -- X-rays / Carl Beck -- Excesses of surgery / Edgar Trevithick -- Medical practice (Philosophy) / Anonymous physician; Lowis W. Palfrey -- On dying / Sir William Osler -- Retirement / Harvey Cushing -- War neuroses; A psychiatrist's reaction to the bombing of a hospital; Doctor-patient relationship / Thomas W. Salmon -- Control of infectious diseases (World War I) / David R. Lyman -- Public health / Hermann M. Biggs -- Opposition to psychoanalysis / Unidentified physician -- "Socialized medicine" / Arnold C. Klebs -- Euthanasia; "Unorthodox medicine" / Lord Berkeley Moynihan -- Development of penicillin / Leslie A. Falk -- Medical education (Philosophy) / John Grieve; Saul Jarcho -- "Socialized medicine" / Alex E. Roche -- Religious views / J. Jerrold Applegarth; J.C. Bacala -- Cigarette smoking as cause of cancer of the lung / Alton Ochsner -- Medicine in World War II / Robert E. Kaufman; Robert B. Hoenig -- Retirement / Frederic C. Sharpless.
Abstract	This present collection of personal letters of physicians is a unique literary contribution. The time covered runs from 1721 to 1954.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and index.
LCCN	54012176

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