Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . PROGRESS OF MEDICINE (541 Quite a large opening remained, which Nature closed with a valve. By push-ing the valve to one side, the interior of the stomach could be explored. Through the work of the experimental physiologists in the laboratories,the study of the action of drugs on the lungs, heart
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . PROGRESS OF MEDICINE (541 Quite a large opening remained, which Nature closed with a valve. By push-ing the valve to one side, the interior of the stomach could be explored. Through the work of the experimental physiologists in the laboratories,the study of the action of drugs on the lungs, heart, liver, stomach, nerves)etc., has been greatly enhanced. Anatomy is now being taught by the only true method, and that is dissec-tion. Didactic lectures are given, but the student must dissect every part ithe human body before he can receive his degree. Formerly graves were. .1. MAllTON SIMS. A.]!.. ).. (Late Surgeon to the Womans Hospital, New York.) robbed, and the bodies sold to the colleges. Now, however, through legisla-tive enactment, unclaimed bodies are turned over to the colleges, where theyare preserved either by injection, a pickling process, or by cold storage. The ophthalmologists of to-day fear nothing inside nor outside the eyes are straightened, cataracts removed, eyeballs taken out and glasseyes inserted. This article would be incomplete, were not a few remarks directed towardthe trained nurse. The first training school for nurses in America was established in connec-tion with the Lying-in Charity Hospital of Philadelphia in 1828. This school,still in existence, thus has the honor of being the oldest in this country, andis antedated by only one 642 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY The generally recognized profession for women, that of the trained nurse,is practically of recent development. Twenty-five years
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