...According to Dr. William Osler, the three great advances of the century made by the medical profession have been a knowledge of the mode of controlling epidemic...and the adoption of antiseptic methods in surgery. "Think," he says, "of the Nemesis which has overtaken pain during the past fifty years. Anaesthetics...

...According to Dr. William Osier, the three great advances of the century made by the medical profession have been a knowledge of the mode of controlling epidemic...introduction of anaesthetics, and the adoption of 67 antiseptic methods in surgery. "Think," he says, "of the Nemesis which has overtaken pain during...

...According to Dr. William Osier, the three great advances of the century made by the medical profession have been a knowledge of the mode of controlling epidemic...and the adoption of antiseptic methods in surgery. " Think," he says, " of the Nemesis which has overtaken pain during the past fifty years. Anaesthetics...

...According to Dr. William Osier, the three great advances of the century made by the medical profession have been a knowledge of the mode of controlling epidemic diseases, the introduction of aneesthetics, and the adoption of 67 antiseptic methods in surgery. "Think," he says, "of the Nemesis...

...medicine is only an earnest of what the future has in store. The three great advances of the century haw been: a knowledge of the mode of controlling epidemic diseases, the introduction of anesthetics, and the adoption of antiseptic methods in surgery. Beside them, all others sink into insignificance,...

...Where have we come from, and where are we going? Looking back over the nineteenth century, he noted: The three great advances of the century have been...contribute so enormously to the personal comfort of the individual.58 More specifically, the nineteenth century had seen the rise of scientific medicine, specialization,...

...TEACHING AND search out the laws which control them, and, although we have seen a complete THINKING revolution in our ideas, what has been accomplished...their control, for example, such a scourge as typhoid fever becomes almost unknown in the presence of perfect drainage and an uncontaminated water supply....

...inherent in the men themselves, and not a few bound up with the " fool multitude " among which we doctors work. The processes of disease are so complex that...their control, for example, such a scourge as typhoid fever becomes almost unknown in the presence of perfect drainage and an uncontaminated water supply....