Brooklyn medical journal. (1892) (14760949666)
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Identifier: brooklynmedicalj6189medi (find matches)
Title: Brooklyn medical journal.
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Medical Society of the County of Kings (Kings County, N.Y.)
Subjects: Medicine Surgery Medicine
Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Medical Society of Co. of Kings
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
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qualin rheumatic, sore or stiff neck.—Medical Times. NEW CHAIRS AND PROFESSORS AT THE JEFFERSONMEDICAL COLLEGE. The Board of Trustees of the Jefferson Medical College at theirmeeting, April 7, 1892, instituted a chair of Clinical Gynaecology,with a seat in the Faculty, and elected to the new chair Dr. E. E.Montgomery, who has been for a number of years professor ofgynaecology in the Medico-Chirurgical College. They also estab-lished the following Clinical Professorships, electing Dr. F. X. Der-cum, Professor of Nervous Diseases; Dr. E. E. Graham, Professorof Childrens Diseases; Dr. H. Augustus Wilson, Professor of Ortho-paedic Surgery; Dr. H. W. Stewagon, Professor of Dermatology, andDr. W. M. L. Coplin, Adjunct Professor of Hygiene. AMERICAN ELECTRO-THERAPEUTIC ASSOCIATION. The second annual meeting of the American Electro-TherapeuticAssociation will beheld in New York, October 4, 5, and 6, 1892,at the New York Academy of Medicine, 17 West 43d Street. H. M.Bigelow, M.D., Secretary.
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A deep philosopher, a learned physician, an elegant writer, and an ornament to society; honest andhumane, ever desirous of doing good, and of communicating knowledge to the extent of his power. Whathigher eulogy could a man have than this one given the subject of our sketch by one of his contemporaries. Freind was the son of an English clergyman, and first saw the light in Northamptonshire, in 1675. Hewas educated at Westminster, and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was early distinguishedfor his attainments as a classical scholar, publishing during his pupilage there, Latin translations with notesof several of the Greek classics. He took the degree of A. B. in 1698, and from that time applied himselfsedulously to the study of physic, and received the degree of bachelor of medicine in 1703, having taken hisA. M. in 1701. Previous to receiving his medical degree, he had brought out several valuable papers onmedical topics which were published in the Philosophical Transacti