Lanterna Rally

Author: General Books LLC

Publisher:

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781458946607

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EEPOET ON PEOGRESS IN CANADIAN MEDICINE. GEORGE EOSS, A.M., M.D., Professor Op Clinical Medicine, McGiLL University, Chairman. It Ih almost or quite impossible to expect to be able to condense into a short report the progress made in Medicine during the past year. This, for the Science at large, is done annually, by some one of the great chiefs in the profession at the meeting of the British Medical Association, where ample space and time are allowed for this important object. Although, therefore, I believe it is expected of this Committee to make some report of this kind, I have (distrusting my ability to deal with so large a subject), thought it better, on this occasion to deviate from the usual custom and, instead, to bring before this Association an account, as condensed as possible, of most, if not all, important papers or reliable observations which have, within the past twelve months, been published by Canadian authors. These have of course been almost entirely collected from the pages of our Canadian journals. I hope, therefore, by this means, to show to what extent Canadian physicians are holding a place in the great field of work open to those engaged in practical medicine; and I think it will be found that many of the articles spoken of are well worthy of any country, and make us feel that we have amongst us observant physicians and medical scientists of whom we have reason to be proud. And here I would note the fact, -as confirming this statement, that within the past year several of the original papers from this country have been copied into American, British and some foreign Medical papers, and in some cases their contents most favourably commented upon. But I am forced at the same time to say that, having for the purposes of this paper examined the file...