Identifier: interstatemedica1619unse (find matches)
Title: Interstate medical journal
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis, : Interstate Medical Journal
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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clinical features of the livingorganism. Well may we ask, how is one to understand a parallel study,if dissection is not made to further ones knowledge of the constructionof the human body? Really it were folly to draw a line of demarcationbetween anatomy and physiology, as if the achievements of the former,as Bichat said, were not closely connected with the researches of thelatter; and as if the comprehension of the effect could be separated fromthe comprehension of the agent which produces it. Moreover, to whatdomain in medicine, if not to anatomy, would one attach our knowledgeof mechanical physiology—articulations and muscles, in particular, thingsone would search for in vain for the least mention in the majority ofmodern treatises in physiology. HISTORICAL NOTES. DR. JOHN BROWN. -The 19th century produced no character that was more lovable thanthe sympathetic author of Rab and His Friends. Other distinguishedfigures in medicine and literature were not devoid of qualities which
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were unusual, but though his contemporaries, in many instances, out-stripped him in the matter of talent and production, not one possessedDr. John Browns nobility and sympathy; a fact not only illustrated in 300 INTERSTATE MEDICAL JOURNAL his pathetic tales and charming correspondence, published in 1907, butin his daily habit when engaged in the practice of medicine. Nowthough ancestry cannot always be relied upon for the safe transmissionof sterling qualities from father to son, in the case of Dr. Brown, thebest lesson in the possibilities of heredity is very well illustrated ; for hisfather was not only kindly, compassionate, and without guile, but mani-fested from an early age an inordinate desire for study. And in themental picture that is ours after studying his tales, the three volumesof essays entitled Home Subsecivae, the Letters, edited by his son,and E. T. MLarens Dr. John Brown and His Sisters, the subject ofthis sketch is always a man of exceptional parts who is dominated

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