American Medicine, Volume 26American-Medicine Publishing Company, 1920 - Medicine |
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... less a cause of permanent cerebral injury involving men- tal impairment , than has been the current opinion . The real traumatism is due rather to the prolonged pressure of the child's head against the pelvis . Difficult delivery ...
... less a cause of permanent cerebral injury involving men- tal impairment , than has been the current opinion . The real traumatism is due rather to the prolonged pressure of the child's head against the pelvis . Difficult delivery ...
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... less adrift in a strange community with all the advan- tages of climate nullified . Change of climates cannot accomplish miracles . In fact , climate in itself does not suffice as a justification for isolating tuber- culous patients ...
... less adrift in a strange community with all the advan- tages of climate nullified . Change of climates cannot accomplish miracles . In fact , climate in itself does not suffice as a justification for isolating tuber- culous patients ...
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... less than half the civil rate for males in the eleven orig- inal registration states . The full importance of this low typhoid mortality is patent when one considers the relative number of deaths that might have occurred , had the ...
... less than half the civil rate for males in the eleven orig- inal registration states . The full importance of this low typhoid mortality is patent when one considers the relative number of deaths that might have occurred , had the ...
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... less unfortunate influence , however , can hardly be doubted . dangers of publicity to the self - supporting addict can readily be seen , while the remote but none the less possible menace of some crooked individual getting hold of the ...
... less unfortunate influence , however , can hardly be doubted . dangers of publicity to the self - supporting addict can readily be seen , while the remote but none the less possible menace of some crooked individual getting hold of the ...
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... less made some mistakes . Probably he would be the first to admit that he has . But as that great Vermonter , E. J. Phelps , who was once an Ambassador to England used to say , " The man who never made a mistake , never made anything ...
... less made some mistakes . Probably he would be the first to admit that he has . But as that great Vermonter , E. J. Phelps , who was once an Ambassador to England used to say , " The man who never made a mistake , never made anything ...
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Page 299 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be; Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales ; Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'da ghastly dew From the nations...
Page 178 - Public health is the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing...
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Page 299 - Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
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Page 122 - City to promptly make a similar report to the Department of Health relative to any person found by such physician to be affected with syphilis or gonorrhoea.