Addresses and other papers / by William Williams Keen.

Author/creator Keen, William W.
Format Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : W.B. Saunders, 1905.
Descriptionvi, 441 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
LCCN 05015547

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