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Benjamin Rush on cancer.
It is f i t t ing in this b icentennial year of the United States, for the ed i f i ca t ion of oncologists, to cast a glance at what physicians o f the American Revolut ion though t and practiced about cancer . There is no better source of such en l igh tenment than the wri t ings o f Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) of Phi ladelphia. Of English Quaker stock, born in Pennsylvania and educated at Pr i...
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standing a specialized field in relation to biological science as a whole. The illustrations are profuse and as diversified as the text, from bacteria to the Australian ant-eater, from Gargantua to the Grand Canyon, and from Venus de Medici to scorbutic guinea-pigs. The author has set himself a Herculean task, and it is inevitable that errors of interpretation and of fact occur. To cite an exam...
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established New York University Medical School, who offered the Lyceum three rooms in the Medical School, a step which proved beneficial to both institutions. In the succeeding years several unsuccessful efforts were made to find larger accommodation. A fire in 1863 destroyed the Medical School building, causing the Lyceum to lose everything, including John James Audubon's collection of birds, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1892
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1892.02411270030021