Word: physician
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...least five or six years of post-graduate training in the medical school and hospital are necessary before the practice of medicine can be begun. When the prospective physician comes to decide upon what line of work he will follow, there is a large choice open to him. He may take up practice, consultation, surgery, specialized work, research, teaching, medical administration, or work on a board of public health...
...practice a physician comes into closest contact with his patients. In the course of his duties he can gain their respect and gratitude, becoming an important figure in the community. A comfortable income is almost assured in a small town, while only brilliant men can practice successfully in a large city. A consulting practice provides a large income, but necessitates wide experience. Many men now prepare directly for this career by six or eight years of extra study. The surgeon requires many years of training, but his income is large. For specialized work less training is required than for surgery...
...Stillman Infirmary will open tomorrow morning, and will be conducted on the same plan as last year. In return for an annual payment of four dollars, which is charged on the term-bills of students, any student is admitted to the Infirmary on the order of a physician, and is given, without further charge, a bed in a ward, board, and ordinary nursing, for a period not exceeding two weeks during the academic year. A charge of two dollars will be made for each day the patient remains in the Infirmary after the allotted time of two weeks...
...Frederick Lewis Gay '78, and Ernest Lewis Gay '97, the Library has lately received a valuable and interesting addition of books. Most of the books came from the library of Mrs. Gay's father, Winslow Lewis, of the Class of 1819, M.D. 1822. Dr. Lewis was a well-known physician of Boston, and a member of the Board of Overseers from 1856 to 1868. The collection is a general one, but contains many works on Italian history and travels, including a number of valuable folio volumes of engraved plates. There are also many works on numismatics, and others of interest...
That the stock-ticker, which after all is a delicate and sensitive electrical instrument, should register this moral regeneration, is a sign of health and not of disease, and the physician who detects the germs of that disease which is sapping public confidence and poisoning the industrial and political body, is a benefactor of his country and prophet of his day and his generation. When Jenner introduced vaccination into the domain of curative and preventive medicine, the reactionaries pronounced him as an enemy of mankind, but the next generation held him up as one of the greatest benefactors...