Frontier doctor: William Beaumont, America's first great medical scientist

Science at the bedside: the footprints of Yale and Johns Hopkins.

William Osler in an address before the St. Louis Medical Society on October 4, 1902, entitled "William Beaumont-A Pioneer American Physiologist" beckoned his audience to: Come with me on a lovely June day in 1822, to what were then far-off northern wilds, to the Island of Michilimacinac, where the waters of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron unite and where stands Fort Mackinac, rich in the memories ...

A Brief History of Medicine in Massachusetts

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN MASSACHUSETTS. By Henry R. Viets, M.D., (Fellow of Massachusetts Medical Society). Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, I930, Xiv + I94 pp. One of the salutary signs of the growing interest in the history of medicine is the recent appearance of a large number of histories of medicine devoted to a given locality-a country, a state, a town, or even a hosp...

America's New Psychiatric Frontier

Teaching the humanities to medical students.

The decoding of the human genome offers great promise for the understanding and treatment of chronic human diseases at the last frontier. There is a widely recognised hazard that an exaggerated emphasis on molecular reductionism may lead to the loss of the essential humanitarian instincts of young doctors. To counteract this danger it is now accepted by many leading figures of the medical estab...

Doctor Hezekiah Beardsley 1748-1790*

It is a great pleasure to appear before you to speak upon one whose name you bear in the title of your Society. It is also pleasing to know that the names of Beardsley and Beaumont, two illustrious doctors in the history of medicine in Connecticut, are perpetuated in this State by two groups who are earnest seekers after medical truth along clinical and historical lines. The men were widely dif...