Word: physician
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Warren contributes "David Williams Cheever," a retrospect and an appreciation. Professor Cheever held the chair of surgery and later served as an Overseer. He was a teacher, a writer, and Professor Warren gives a clear idea of him as a sage and kindly example of the confidential family physician of the old school...
...wants a congenial occupation, an occupation in which one may use all his faculties, one in which he may be useful to his fellow-men and at the same time earn his living, he should become a physician." "This profession," said Dr. F. C. Shattuck '68, in his lecture on medicine as a profession, "is one of the most fruitful occupations to which one can devote his life. Although the betterment of the processes of medicine has been great in the last thirty years, the full development of the science has only started...
...factors of medical progress," said Dr. Cannon. He then explained how medical experiment brought about the results previously explained by Dr. Shattuck. "There are yet many obscurities in medical knowledge," said Dr. Cannon; "for instance, scarlet fever, measles, infantile paralysis, and cancer afford wide fields of investigation. The average physician may not make worldwide discoveries, yet, like a picture puzzle, every addition is needed. There is a certain thrill that comes to a man when he makes a great discovery; he realizes that he has found a truth, a truth which will help mankind...
...Nichols '86, who spoke last, showed the chances of a student's "making good" if he should enter surgery. "Surgery is hard work," he said. "The surgeon is the carpenter and mechanic of the physician. He comes into the closest relations to his fellow...
...William Henry Robey, M.D. '94, visiting physician at the Boston City Hospital, will deliver the eighth of the course of free public lectures at the Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston, tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. The doors will be closed at five minutes past the hour. Admission is free, and no tickets are required. The subject of the lecture is "The Value of Physical Examination to the Individual...