History of medicine in Massachusetts : a centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.

  • Green, Samuel A. (Samuel Abbott), 1830-1918.
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1881
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Credit: History of medicine in Massachusetts : a centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    loas favoured to visit the Patients in order to make a minute Clinical enquiry: in short, vxithout your assis'ance this piece would have been less perfect, and not so loell vouched^ In The Boston Weekly IS'ews-Letter, Janua- ry 5, 1737, there is a long communication, ad- dressed To the Judicious and Learned Presi- dent and Members of the Medical Society in Boston,^'' and signed '^'^ Philanthroposy It takes strong- ground in favor of regulating the practice of physic throughout the province, and advocates the plan of having all practitioners examined by a board of physicians and surgeons appointed by the General Court. The Avriter is justly severe on the Slwemahers, Weavers and Almanach- malcers, with their virtuous Consorts, who have laid aside the proper Business of their Lives, to turn Quacks. In the same newspaper of J^ovcmber 13, 1741, is an interesting report of a surgical operation per- formed about that time for urinary calculus, on Joseph Baker, a boy six years old. It was done in Presence of the Medical Society, by Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, and according to Mr. Chesel- derCs late Improvement of the lateral Way. The report begins:— A Medical Society in Boston New-England, with no quack- ish Vieio, as is the vianner of some ; but for the Comfort and Benefit of the unhappy and miserable Sufferers by the excru- ciating Pain, occasioned by a Stone in the Bladder, do Publish the folloioing Case. Dr. Gardiner, the operator in this case, was a rising young surgeon who had studied his profes- sion in London and Paris. He began the prac-