Little Masterpieces of Science: Health and Healing

Sir James Paget, M.D. Patrick Geddes and Sir J. R. Bennett, M.D. J. Arthur Thomson T. M. Prudden, M.D. B. W. Richardson, M.D. G. M. Sternberg, M.D. Buel P. Colton Robson Roose,...

But the great step had yet to be made--the step which Wells would have tried to make if his test experiment had not failed. Clearly, operations as swift as that of tooth-drawing...

Having at length satisfied his own mind, and, indeed, succeeded in convincing others also, respecting the important protective influence exerted on the constitutions of those wh...

This is not the place to enter on the whole question of the germ theory of disease, but who does not see how wide is the field for investigation opened up by Pasteur and others?...

But this new and stimulating point of view, toward which the studies of the past decade have led us, does not look so largely into the domain of the practical that it would grea...

A belief in the communicability of tuberculosis is becoming widely diffused, and it would seem to be desirable, on the ground of policy alone, for the managers of summer, and es...

It is well known that persons engaged in digging canals, railroad cuts, etc., in malarious regions are especially liable to be attacked with one or the other of the forms of mal...

Merely to enumerate the causes to which longevity has been attributed in attempting to account for individual cases would be a task of some magnitude; it will be sufficient to m...

Such, then, are the principal measures by which life may be prolonged and health maintained down to the closing scene. It remains to be seen whether, as a result of progress of...

Dress, to be perfectly compatible with healthy life, should fit loosely, should be light, warm, and porous, should be adapted to the season as to colour, should be throughout ev...

A hundred years ago the medical advertisement which was most prominent in New York and Philadelphia newspapers was one of a remedy for worms. Many symptoms of nervous and digest...