Addresses and other papers by William Williams Keen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keen, William W. (William Williams), 1837-1932.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine.

Medicine--History.

Physical Description:

vi, 441 p. : ill., plates, ports. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia ; London : W.B. Saunders & Co., 1905.

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.