This book offers personal reminiscences and recollections of forty-six years of membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, as well as biographical sketches of many of the deceased members. It provides valuable insights into the history of medicine in the United States, making it a must-read for medical professionals and history enthusiasts alike. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-Six Years' Membership in the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, and Residence in This City: With Biographical Sketches of Many of the Deceased Members In the preparation of these memoirs I have confined myself closely to facts which I could verify, with such comment as seemed reasonable and concisely set forth my own convictions and deductions. In some instances I have omitted incidents of doubtful propriety, which could not be established beyond dispute, and would have been of no special interest, even though conclusively proven. I have but in a few instances relied upon my memory without verification by examination of records or the oral testimony of persons who were cognizant of the circumstances narrated or fact asserted. In the delineations of character of the dead of the profession I have endeavored to set forth vividly the dominant traits of each person in such manner as would present the individuality so strongly as would distinctly differentiate each character, whilst at the same time making each picture complete in its identity. I have not, however, attempted to "make swans by stretching the necks of geese." I have omitted reference to some not less deserving, and confined my character delineations, with but few exceptions, to those personally and familiarly known to me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Divided Legacy (Vols. I-IV) is a history of Western medical philosophy from the time of Hippocrates to the twentieth century, treating it as a unified system of thought rather than a series of fortuitous discovers. Dr. Coulter interprets the development of medical ideas as the product of a conflict between two opposed systems of thought, Empiricism and Rationalism. This third volume of Divided Legacy continues the account of the conflict between the Empirical and the Rationalist approaches to therapeutics but introduces a socio-economic dimension which had earlier been lacking. In the early nineteenth century, Samuel Hahnemann’s formulation of the Empirical therapeutic doctrine, which he called homeopathy. It flourished especially in the United States. This volume traces the history of the rise and decline of this formulation of Empirical therapeutics in the nineteenth century United States. It analyzes the interaction between the homeopathic doctrines and those of the orthodox school and attempts to illustrate the influence of socio-economic constraints on the movement of medical thought during this period.