... by the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, has brought this issue to the forefront for many clinicians across sectors and disciplines. As trusted voices, physicians and other health care providers are uniquely positioned to discuss the implications of policies that restrict access to comprehensive reproductive...

... was necessary. What he lacked in formal training he in some measure made up for in the variety of his experiences and the resourcefulness of the fron­ tiersman accustomed to solve his own problems. During the ante-bellum era three years was the accepted period of tutelage for the training of physicians. During...

... of American criminal law there is a clear prohibition of killing. This general principle embraces also the relationship of doctors with their patients: under traditional law physicians are prohibited from direct kill­ ing, and are also prohibited from assisting their patients toward death. This prohibition...

... Practice in the Old South 161 form of hook-worm infection, but which in the writer s opin­ ion was also suggestive at times of beri-beri.2 It is hardly necessary to elaborate upon the economic handicap suffered by the South as a result of these condi­ tions.3 A few Southern physicians had already begun...

... to health and to life since 1879-1880. Italian physicians at that time, unable to account for the obscure disease, characterized by anemia, so prevalent among the workers in the St. Gothard tun­ nel, began special investigations. In performing autopsies on a number of the victims it was found...

..., and janitors, to be conducted by physicians. The teachers are taught to make the preliminary sight and hearing test, and in many cities trained nurses are employed to assist the physicians. The nurses visit the homes of pupils and occasionally administer treatment for simple maladies such as scabies (itch...

... an insured person is to receive in return for his contributions are of several kinds. In the first place, should he become sick he is entitled to free medicine and medical attend­ ance by the physician of his choice. Of course this freedom of choice is limited to a certain extent. The committee charged...

... a permanent Porto Rico Anemia Commission and by appropriating $50,000 for its use. At this point Drs. Ash­ ford and King returned to their military service, and Dr. Pedro Gutierrez Igaravidez became chairman of the new commission, with two Porto Rican physicians as his associates. Later a change was made...

..., of the modem languages, i. e. their value 360 The South Atlantic Quarterly. as mere instruments, taking no account of them for their own sake or as disciplinary agencies in the development of mind and character. Such a use is that which the merchant makes ofthem in securing patronage, or the physician...

... in its favor. In default, however, of a plan which seemed better, we have divided our names into two leading classes those of obscure and those of distinguished or noteworthy ancestries, including among the former those who were children of ministers, law­ yers, physicians and schoolmasters without...

... better or worse. There is, however, an unofficial account in the hundreds of letters written by Dr. Gui Patin that is worth re­ cording because this eminent French physician was simply writing to friends. He had no axe to grind. He was not writing for posterity. Patin was born in 1601 in a hamlet close...

... of 95) was also a physician and surgeon. The practice of surgery, Keynes assures us in this autobiography, was the central passion of my life, and he continues to maintain throughout this memoir written at the end of his life, when he was already in his nineties, that collecting books and writing...

... felt young and strong enough for the Crimea. Money was the third reason. The government of Tsar Nicho­ las I was woefully short of surgeons and dangled high rewards to attract foreigners. Special contracts with salaries higher than the average earnings of either European or American physicians were...

... important to emphasize the point that nowhere in the Amer­ icas was smoking-tobacco used as a therapeutic agent during the period of the discovery and exploration, because this little matter was later to be overlooked by European physicians. The first book to refer to tobacco, though not by that name...

... of a tapeworm nostrum, only to discover that its essence had been suggested by Galen. Many English remedies, protected by letters patent, were stock medicines in American homes long after as well as before 1800. The first United States medical patent was granted in 1796 to a Connecticut physician, Elisha...

... that the quarrel be settled without bloodshed: Let s purge this choler without letting blood I This we prescribe, though no physician (i.i. 153-54).1 The rival Dukes, however, are impervious to Richard s pre­ scription, and therefore the King, who by his own reckoning is no physician, commands Bolingbroke...

... (1976): 1 12. Malady and Motive ii high spirits and depression; a sudden acuteness of the senses; and the fear of impending doom.3 Benjamin Rush, the prominent American physician (and signer of the Declaration of Independence), commented on the alter­ nation of high spirits and depression as an early...

... and more. I thought. . . that if 1 sold enough copies of this little book, Voyage au bout de la nuit, I could go back to my medicine. Louis-Ferdinand Celine As we know, Celine was a public health physician and a hygienist, heir to the hygiene movement of the nineteenth century, who became involved after...

... as a physician and playwright, the activities of Richard Selzer, an American surgeon and poet but most would probably have been ac­ cepted by the best journals in the field had they been submitted for con­ sideration. For in almost every essay the writing from sentence to sen­ tence is distinguished (especially...

... gynecologist and most physicians, had effected its first cure. Instantly he thought of Lucy and, more vaguely, of Anarcha and Betsey. For, if that unusual position, which had been revealed to him by the veriest chance, could do that for this woman, why couldn t he apply it with equal success to the uncovering...