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Modern inquiries, classical, professional, and miscellaneous /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879
Format: Microform Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1867.
Subjects:
Medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. On the limits of education
  • 2. On classical and utilitarian studies
  • 3. On the life and works of Count Rumford
  • 4. On the death of Pliny the Elder
  • 5. On the burial of the dead, and Mount Auburn Cemetery
  • 6. Report of the action of Cochituate water on lead pipes, and the influence of the same on health
  • 7. On self-limited diseases
  • 8. On the treatment of disease
  • 9. On the medical profession and quackery
  • 10. Brief expositions of rational medicine
  • 11. The paradise of doctors, a fable
  • 12. Practical views on medical education
  • 13. On the early history of medicine
  • 14. Whether cholera is contagious
  • 15. Testimony on the cattle disease in Massachusetts
  • 16. Report on homÅ“opathy
  • 17. Address delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 18. Aphorisms on the War, I
  • 19. Aphorisms on the War, II
  • 20. Dialogue between Napoleon the First, and Jeremiah, a late citizen of the United States
  • 21. The dark side, the bright side, the practicable side.