Memphis Medical Monthly Volume 22 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...and yet when other years and other tongues their tales of valor tell, where, oh! where, will one find such intrepidity, such commanding courage, such sublime conception, such calm contemplation of doing that which was never done by human mind or hand before; that which experience and judgment would dictate meant almost certain death, as displayed in the deliberate opening of the sacred confines of the abdominal cavity for the first time in the annals of mankind? When we reflect that this was done in the backwoods of Kentucky in 1809, not only without precedent, but without previous experience, without assistance, and, strangest of all, without anesthesia, it becomes all the more remarkable. The story of the mob clamoring at the door, crying that his life should pay for that of the sufterer, is familiar to you, but it may not be generally known that this fearless and pious man had written a beautiful prayer and pinned it on his person, so that in the event of his death, it might perchance fall under the eyes of his beloved wife, that she, at least, might know of the sincerity of his purpose. In the light of the marvellous results to posterity by the miraculous recovery of that brave woman, one cannot refrain from exclaiming, surely God was the surgeon and McDowell the instrument in his hands." The wonderful discoveries which made the name of J. Marion Sims ring round the world were his operations for the cure of vesico-vaginal fistula, and for the repair of the various accidents incideut to parturition. But our profession in America has had many other members whose contributions to science entitle them to be immortalized in the memory of all who revere and appreciate true greatness. In the realm of pyschology, Dr. Benjamin Rush, aptly called the "S...