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.
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[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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    of the volumes. This is a smaller weekly journal, the Centralblatt fur Chirurgie, aud has often one important paper at the beginning, while all the rest consists of free abstracts of the important surgical papers of the world. If you take only one German journal, that is the one I would advise you to take. It makes one large volume for each year. In the Deutsche medicinische Wochenschrift, the Berliner Minische Wochenschrift, the Wiener medicinische Wochenschrift, and the Wiener Klinik you will find many important contributions to medicine, sur- gery, obstetrics, etc. In French literature you will find less of importance, although there is a good deal. I take these two journals, the Revue de Chirurgie and the Archives provinciates de Chirurgie. When you first enter in practice you most probably will not be able to subscribe to so many journals, but you can read a number of them at small expense by forming a Journal Club of from half a dozen to a dozen neighboring doctors who will pay, say five or six dollars a year each. With this money you subscribe to as many journals as your money will buy and pass them from week to week around the club. The journals are sold to the highest bidder, and this will add to the receipts of the club. Not only are these and many other journals of value, but you will find year-books in which are gathered all the more important papers of each year. I think the best one in this country is the American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery. It is a large book, with a good many illustrations. This is the volume for last year. It consists of articles, criticisms, and suggestions. One who reads this carefully will keep well up in all departments of medicine. Every year there is published by Dr. Sajous of this city the Universal Annual of the Medical Sciences. It consists of five volumes each year, and I have brought one volume as a specimen. International Clinics consists of four volumes a year of valuable clinical lectures in many departments, from which you will gain much. I have spoken to you of books, of journals, aud of year-books, but you cannot be expected to remember all of the articles you read. How are you going to make them useful ? Just in the same way you make your cases useful. Have a second card catalogue for all such articles and books. I have brought one drawer of my own card catalogue along to show you how it is done. I saw, for example, the other day in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, by Higgins, a case of Kraske's operation for imperforate rectum. In the Medical News I soon came across a second one by Elliot, and the case I had the other day is the