Medical Communications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Volume 20

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Society, 1907 - Medicine

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Page 301 - is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external coexistences and sequences.
Page 34 - Moved, that a committee of five be appointed by the President to confer with a Committee of the International Statistical Institute on methods of obtaining the population in countries taking no census.
Page 421 - ... flesh, they neither retain their tension nor rotundity; and owing to the same cause, the nails are bent, namely, because it is the compact flesh at their points which is intended as a support to them, and the tension thereof is like that of the solids.
Page 23 - Now, eyes and ears, and all the mechanism of perception, have, as we know, been evolved in us and our brute progenitors by the slow operation of natural selection. And what is true of senseperception is of course also true of the intellectual powers which enable us to erect upon the frail and narrow platform which sense-perception provides, the proud fabric of the sciences.
Page 496 - ... one practical and discreet person, learned in the science of medicine and hygiene, to be State inspector of health in that district Every nomination for such office shall be made at least seven days prior to the appointment.
Page 435 - Plague in the'front house, two more in the rear — and one of these had a young wife and four children. Here the Plague lives in darkness and filth — filth in halls, over walls and floors, in sinks and closets. Here in nine years alone...
Page 49 - ... of the association, and must show that he is not less than twentyone years of age, that he has followed medical...
Page 398 - That the Massachusetts Medical Society hereby declares that it does not consider itself as having endorsed or censured the opinions in former published Annual Addresses, nor will it hold itself responsible for any opinions or sentiments advanced in any future similar addresses.
Page 300 - ... surrounding the nucleus of charge, is comparatively clear and distinct. There may possibly be two different kinds of inertia, which exactly simulate each other, one electrical and the other material; and those who hold this as a reasonable possibility are careful to speak of electrons as ' corpuscles, ' meaning charged particles of matter of extremely small size, much smaller than an atom, consisting of a definite electric charge and an unknown material nucleus; which nucleus, as they recognize,...
Page 298 - Since force is the result of motion, we may say that anything and everything that moves or can be moved, or whose position in space may be changed is matter. There are many forms of matter that cannot be seen or felt, and can be recognized only by their motions. Matter is indestructible ; it may be successively solid, liquid and gas, but in undergoing these changes it neither gains nor loses. It has always been, and it always will be. It is without beginning and will be without end.

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