Literary methods in medicine : a lecture delivered before the W.W. Keen Surgical Society of the Jefferson Medical College / by W.W. Keen.

  • Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.
Date:
[1897]
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Credit: Literary methods in medicine : a lecture delivered before the W.W. Keen Surgical Society of the Jefferson Medical College / by W.W. Keen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    no other department. We will take the American journals first. Here is the Annals of Surgery, of which two volumes are issued an- nually. In this you get original papers and a very admirable review of the surgical work of the world. I get as much out of this as any other surgical journal I see. I have here the oldest medical journal in the world, the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, published monthly in this city. This is volume cxii., which terminated on De- cember 31. Like the Annals of Surgery, this consists of original papers, reviews of books, and finally a resume of the more important recent medical papers. Here is another journal published in New York, the Medical News, of which I have here a single weekly number and a bound volume. In this there are original papers, proceedings of medical societies, selections from other journals, etc. This is a copy of the New York Medical Record, a weekly, and this is one of the bound volumes for six months of the year. This is the New York Medical Journal. These are two excellent journals, both of the same type as the Medical News. A number of other excellent American journals, such as the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, the Inter- national Medical Magazine, the Journal of the American Medical Asso- ciation, the Medical and Surgical Reporter, etc., I see regularly in a small journal club. Here are two English periodicals. This is the old one that so many of you are familiar with, the Lancet. It is a rather curious commentary that the name is that of an instrument now so rarely used. This is the British Medical Journal, and these two are the best journals published in Great Britain, not only for sur- gery, but for medicine, obstetrics, gynaecology, the ear, the eye, and, in fact, every department of medicine. They are universal journals in that respect. I will now show you some of the Continental journals, and this leads me to urge you all, if possible, by all means to learn at least one other language than your mother tongue. When you have acquired another language you have doubled yourself. If you have an opportunity of studying only one, study German. This is the hardest language, per- haps, but it is certainly by far the most desirable at the present time in papers and books on the practice of medicine and surgery. Add French to German if at all possible, for there is much that is valuable in that language. Let me show you a few of the foreign journals which I take myself. Here are single numbers of the Deutsche Zeit- schrift fur Chirurgie and the Beitrdge zur klinischen Chirurgie, and here are bound volumes of each. This is another one, founded by the great Langenbeck, the Archiv fur klinischen Chirurgie, and here is one