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A Century of American Medicine. 1776-1876
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SURGERY.1 " According to this time it shall be said, what has God wrought?" A Century has elapsed since the American colonies, through their representatives in Congress, assembled in this city, absolved their allegiance from the British crown, and, after a struggle of seven years, attended with great sacrifice of blood and treasure, achieved their independence as a free and sovereign people. What the country has done since that eventful epoch, in the various pursuits and occupations of life, is a legitimate object of inquiry, especially at a moment when the Nation, now composed of forty millions of human beings, is about to celebrate its Centennial Anniversary, in a form intended to display, in the amplest manner, its mental and physical wealth. It is well that every profession once in a century should open its ledgers and examine its accounts to see how it stands with itself and with the world at large. The progress of the arts and sciences is intimately associated with the intellectual development of the human race. No nation can be truly great, if unmindful of the sanitary condition- of its citizens. Civilization and the arts of domestic life march hand in hand; as is the one, so necessarily 1 The author tenders his acknowledgments to Professor Greene, of Portland, Professor Bell, of Louisville, Professor Johnston, of Baltimore, Dr. George A. Otis, and Dr. Harvey G. Brown, U. S. A., and Dr. Laurence Turubull, Dr. William Thomson, and Dr. I. Minis Hays, of Philadelphia, for material embodied in this paper. must be the other, so indissolubly are they interwoven and bound together. The refined and cultured physician has been an object of the deepest interest in every enlightened nge and country. Even the American savage, who cares little for his physical comforts in...
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Item Specifications...
Pages 374
Dimensions: Length: 7.99" Width: 5" Height: 0.75"
Weight: 0.81 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Oct 29, 2009
ISBN 1116330636
EAN 9781116330632
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