Washington Medical Annals, Volume 15Medical Society of the District of Columbia., 1916 Vol. 1-11, no. 3 "including medical miscellany" |
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A. L. Hunt Amer appointed April Army Medical Museum babies body cancer cause cautery cavernous sinus cent Chairman clinical condition D. S. Lamb diagnosis Discussed by Drs District of Columbia examination Executive Committee exophthalmic Frank Baker Frank Leech Georgetown University Hickling Hlth hospital hygiene inches infant infection insane January John Jour June Kober lesions Macatee March Medical Association Medical School Medical Society medicine meeting membership ment mental disease method month from October mortality operation organism pain paper patient pellagra Pfender physician plates Pott's disease present Public Health Service rectum reported roentgen roentgenologist Rupert Blue S. S. Adams scarlet fever Section Serbia showed sinus specimens Sternberg Surg Surgeon surgery surgical symptoms teeth tion tissue treatment tuberculosis U. S. Army U. S. Navy U. S. Public Health Vice President W. P. Carr WASHINGTON MEDICAL ANNALS Williams Woodward Wythe Cook x-ray yellow fever
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Page 318 - Promotion to the grade of surgeon is made according to seniority and after due examination, as vacancies occur in that grade.
Page 110 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 109 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 74 - ... diseases and industrial hygiene were instituted at several places during the year. A survey of the industries of Cincinnati was made to determine the cause of the prevalence of tuberculosis among industrial workers. The investigations relating to the migration of persons suffering from tuberculosis were completed. Upon the request of the health authorities of five states, the organization and operations of the respective boards of health were studied and recommendations advanced for improvement...
Page 109 - IN THE COURTS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in the courts of the District of Columbia no physician or surgeon shall be permitted, without the consent of the person afflicted, or of his legal representative, to disclose any information, confidential in its nature, which he shall have acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity and which was necessary to enable him to...
Page 109 - That this section shall not apply to evidence in criminal cases where the accused is charged with causing the death of, or inflicting injuries upon a human being, and the disclosure shall be required in the interests of public justice...
Page 375 - DISEASES OF THE SKIN, by RICHARD L. SUTTON, MD, Professor of Diseases of the Skin...
Page 202 - An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes...
Page 318 - When quarters are not provided, commutation at the rate, of $30, $40 and $50 a month, according to grade, is allowed. All grades above that of assistant surgeon receive longevity pay, 10 per cent in addition to the regular salary for every five years' service up to 40 per cent after twenty years
Page 352 - Johnston, because of attacks he called "bilious" (but not preceded or accompanied by constipation), which produce headache preceded by numbness and pricking in the fingers, followed by dizziness, mental confusion and foolish talk of paraphasic type, without loss of consciousness. These attacks have occurred every two or three months since the age of 22 ; they are of very short duration ; there were no scotomata, but they were formerly accompanied by vomiting.