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Addresses and other papers / by William Williams Keen.
Biotech Circulation R114 .K446 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- History.
- History of Medicine.
- Education, Medical.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- Medicine.
- Education, Medical.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 441 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Classics of Medicine Library, [1998]
- Contents:
- The early history of practical anatomy.
- The history of the Philadelphia school of anatomy and its relation to medical teaching.
- Our recent debts to vivisection.
- Recent progress in surgery.
- The new era in medicine and its demands upon the profession and the college.
- The real rewards of medicine.
- Medicine as a career for educated men.
- Vivisection and brain surgery.
- Medical education.
- The advantages of an academic training for a medical career.
- Literary methods in medicine.
- Address at the unveiling of the statue of the late Prof. Samuel D. Gross, M.D.
- Semicentennial address in surgery before the American medical association.
- The debt of the public to the medical profession.
- The endowment of medical colleges.
- The ideal physician.
- Address at the Royal College of Surgeons of England at the conferring of honorary degrees at the centenary celebration of the granting of its present charter.
- The progress of surgery in the nineteenth century.
- The mission of a medical college.
- The duties and responsibilities of trustees of public medical institutions.
- The qualities essential to success in medicine.
- The cheerfulness of death.
- The need for increased endowments for medical instruction.
- Age and youth in medicine.
- Surgical reminiscences of the civil war.
- Notes:
- Privately printed for the members of the Classics of Medicine Library.
- Originally published: Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders & Company, 1905.
- Accompanied by introductory pamphlet, "Notes from the editors."
- Local Notes:
- Biotech Cir copy : Penn Medicine Internship class (1970) 0n their 50th anniversary.
- OCLC:
- 42662947
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