A centennial address delivered in the Sanders Theatre, at Cambridge, June 7, 1881 : before the Massachusetts Medical Society.

  • Samuel Abbott Green
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1881
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Credit: A centennial address delivered in the Sanders Theatre, at Cambridge, June 7, 1881 : before the Massachusetts Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    of medicine. Dr. William Douglass, a noted author and physician of that day, writes, under date of February 17, 1735^6, to Cadwallader Golden, of New York, that . . . We have lately in Boston formed a medical society, of wliich, this gentleman [Dr. Clark, the bearer of the letter], a mem- ber thereof, can give you a particular account. We design from time to time to publish some short pieces ; there is now ready for the press number one, with this title-page : — Number One. MEDICAL MEMOIRS CONTAINING 1. A miscelbmy. Practical introduction. 2. A history of the dysentery epidemical in Boston in 1734. 3. Some account of a gutta-serena in a young woman. 4. The anatomical inspection of a spina ventosa in the vertebrre of the loins in a young man. 5. Some practical comments or remarks on the writings of Dr. Thomas Sydenham. Published by a Medical-Society in Boston, New-England. This letter is now among the Golden Papers, in the possession of the New York Historical Society ; a copy of it is printed in the second volume, fourth series, of the Massachusetts Historical Gollections (pages 188, 189). Gutta Serena, Englished into drop serene, was the cause of Milton's blindness. The poet alludes to him- self, when he says : — Eyes that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs. The disease was afterward known as amaurosis. Spina ventosa is an affection of the osseous system, — accord- ing to old notions, — in which the texture of the bone dilates, seemingly distended with air.
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