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Title: Letters from foreign lands
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Eccles, R. G. (Robert Gibson), 1848-1934
Subjects: History of Medicine Physicians
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo. : Medical Fortnightly
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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veries givennew knowledge of the proteids of the blood,the mechanism of sleep, the cause of theheart beat, the origin of red cells, the rela-tion of inorganic salts to the heart beat,and nerve regeneration. Before moving toNew York W. G. McCallum gave the firstclue to the nature of the supposed flagel-la in halteridium, thus making Rosss dis-covery of the malarial parasite in the mos-quito possible, showed us the relationshipbetween calcium metabolism and tetan37,and in various wa3Ts advanced our knowl-edge of protozoology and bacteriology. H.A. Kelly introduced the operations fornephro-ureterectomy and uretero-ureteros-tom3r taught a new method of catheterizingthe uterus and in a number of ways ad-vanced gynecology. H. P. C. Wilson was 19: the first gynecologist in Baltimore, was thefirst in Maryland to perform Sims opera-tion for division of the cervix uteri, and toremove the uterine appendages by abdom-inal section. He was the second physicianin the world to remove, by cutting into
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H. A. HARE, M. D. PHILADELPHIA H.B.; .AT E pieces, a larg-e intra-uterine fibroid tumorfilling the whole pelvis. The patient re-covered. It was in Baltimore that JohnCrawford, in 1807, first declared that ma-laria was carried by mosquitoes. OtherBaltimoreans who have helped us along theroad of medical progress through researchare W. S. Thayer on the heart and bloodin acute diseases., F. P. Mall on the struc-ture and embryological development of vari. 194 ous organs and on human monsters, H.Cushing on the function of the pituitaryand in bacteriology, E. A. Andrews on leu-cocytes, E. L. Melius on the anatomy of thecentral nervous s)Tstem, W. H. Lewis on theembryology of e)re, arm, head, etc., P. W.Dawson the regeneration of nerves and L.P. Baker on the chemistry of proteids. PHILADELPHIA. Every visitor to the eastern seaboard isas anxious to see Philadelphia as he is tosee Washington or New York. All haveheard of Independence Hall and its collec-tion of memorials of the dawn of American

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