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...public wishes to have the practical general practitioner of the 18th and 19th centuries but endowed with all the knowledge and skills of the 20th century specialist. It wants the comfort of the home visit combined with all the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium of the modern hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education at the Medical School | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...that brought Dr. Frank Harold Hanna Roberts on the run from the Smithsonian Institution. Beneath 20 feet of ancient soil, Dr. Roberts laid bare what must have been a teeming Ice Age campsite and tool factory. Besides 30 Folsom points of jasper, chert and chalcedony, there was a scattered armamentarium of scrapers, knives, drills, engraving implements, hammers. Extending over a half-mile, the site was apparently once a lush pasture where Pleistocene animals, following the retreating ice rim, came to feed. That the hunters were contemporaries of the animals was perfectly plain because from most of the animal bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...certain disease. Therefore that disease and that drug poisoned the body similarly. If a minute portion of the drug were given to a patient so diseased, the minute portion would stimulate the body to resist the disease. By "proving," by testing out on healthy humans the whole armamentarium of drugs, the homeopaths worked out a, vast array of drugs specific for practically every disease symptom. The regular school of medicine rejects the law of similars, but approximates it by the current concept of immunities. Vaccines give the symptoms of a disease-mildly. President of the Institute of Homeopathy is Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gropings | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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