Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
of all unnecessary medical, surgical and the medicinal treatment is considered quite :|
other instruction which does not pertain to fulh' with the reproduction of many tried :
the proper education of a nurse, and which formulae. These have not been printed as Ij
has apparently been incorporated with the a suggestion that the disease be treated by 1
obvious purpose in view of unduly prolong- rule, but that the combinations of the vari- I
ing the course in order to hold the services ous drugs indicated, as used by the recog- j
of the marticulates, or to enhance in their nized specialists of today, may be seen. ;
minds the importance of their chosen call- The chapters dealing with the diseases!
ing. Moreover, it stands to reason that the of the eye, ear, nose and throat, and the I
elected courses of instruction should be skin are quite instructive. |
given by teachers of large practical experi- Reproductions of temperature charts have i
ence and not by immature young medical been inserted in a number of places, with |
graduates. the hope that this valuable aid will be more
Fourthly. The just regulation of the pften employed in private practice than it course of iraining so that each and every
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is at present. matriculate shall be assured of a systematic
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equalization of the hours of instruction in lustrations. It is beautifully bound in
the various branches.
Fifthly. The shortening of the daily pecloth,
well indexed and contains 653 pages,
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printed on a good quality of paper.
riods of service for the individual nurses so
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that these shall not exceed six hours at a Philadelphia General
stretch, and the insistence upon a regular Volume VII. 190S.
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rotation of service for the girls. This will
correct the obvious evil of a continuous
service of from twelve to eighteen hours, as
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by Dunlap Printing Co. 1909.
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Many important changes in the hospital]
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is frequently insisted upon at present, and
often to the lasting injury of the nurse or
patient, or both.
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and its management have been made since (
Vol. VI. was issued. The hospital is now i
called the Philadelphia Hospital for the I
Insane, and the Philadelphia Home for the
Indigent, which are now in course of construction.
A tract of ground has also beer j
secured at Byberry, where it is intended tc
remove tuberculous patients.
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The Diseases of Children. By Henry Enos
^gje jt „ecessarv to have more Residen
Tuley, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics,
physicians. There are now thirty Medica
University ot Louisville, Aledical Depart-
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ment; Visiting Physician Masonic Wid- _,,.,, ^ . ^_„ , .
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ows' and Orphans' Home;
book contains 2/2 pages and i:
Secretarv of
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Book Notices.
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tion; Ex- Secretary and Ex-Chairman
contams several interesting illustrations.
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the Section on Diseases of Children, _^ ,. . „ .i • r^ n ^ j .- „
American Medical Association, etc., ^tu^'^f '".
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Nathaniel Garland keirle A.M., Tr Tn M. D
Louisville, Kv. Illustrated. Baltimore:
Southern Medical Publishing Company. ?• Sc. Professor of Medical Junspru
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This book has been written with the
director of the Pasteur Institute, Balti,
needs of the general practitioner and stu- more, Md. Baltimore: The Lord PresS:
dent in view, and the diseases of children 1909. Testimonial Edition,
have been described as they are seen by the This book contains a well brought on
busy practitioner in his daily rounds. On introduction by William H. Welch and
account of the belief of the author that the biographical sketch of the author by Harr
question of infant feeding is one of the most Friedenwald, which are very interesting
important which confronts us, more space This volume is a collection of writings
has been devoted to that subject than is rabies published by a committee in behal
given other important ones. He wishes to of the author's friends. The engraving c
interest the general practitioner in milk, its the author in the first part of the book i
care and handling. very good indeed.
Each disease is considered in a methodi- This book is neatly and well bound i
cal manner. Special attention is given to cloth, carefully indexed, and contains 3!
the dietetic and hygienic management, and pages of very instructive reading matter.