The New Medical Follies: An Encyclopedia of Cultism and Quackery in These United States, with Essays on the Cult of Beauty, the Craze for Reduction, Rejuvenation, Eclecticism, Bread and Dietary Fads, Physical Therapy, and a Forecast as to the Physician of the Future, Volume 10Boni and Liveright, 1927 - 235 pagine |
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The New Medical Follies: An Encyclopedia of Cultism and Quackery ..., Volume 10 Morris Fishbein Visualizzazione completa - 1927 |
The New Medical Follies: An Encyclopedia of Cultism and Quackery ..., Volume 10 Morris Fishbein Visualizzazione completa - 1927 |
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Pagina 213 - Finally, these principles are primarily for the good of the public, and their enforcement should be conducted in such a manner as shall deserve and receive the endorsement of the community.
Pagina 212 - The patient should be made to realize that a proper fee should be paid the family physician for the service he renders in determining the surgical or medical treatment suited to the condition, and in advising concerning those best qualified to render any special service that may be required by the patient.
Pagina 187 - But we do not separate from this— what in any case has a share in the name "love"— on the one hand, self-love, and on the other, love for parents and children, friendship and love for humanity in general, and also devotion to concrete objects and to abstract ideas. Our justification lies in the fact that psycho-analytic research has taught us that all these tendencies are an expression of the same instinctual impulses; in relations between the sexes these impulses force their way towards sexual...
Pagina 186 - We call by that name the energy, regarded as a quantitative magnitude (though not at present actually measurable), of those instincts which have to do with all that may be comprised under the word 'love'.
Pagina 32 - In the conflict between the will and the imagination, the force of the imagination is in direct ratio to the square of the will.
Pagina 209 - ... The publication or circulation of ordinary simple business cards, being a matter of personal taste or local custom, and sometimes of convenience, is not per se improper. As implied, it is unprofessional to disregard local customs and offend recognized ideals in publishing or circulating such cards. It is unprofessional to promise radical cures; to boast of cures and secret methods of treatment or remedies; to exhibit certificates of skill or of success in the treatment of diseases; or to employ...
Pagina 69 - The examination of the human eye, without the use of drugs, medicines or surgery, to ascertain the presence of defects or abnormal conditions which can be corrected by the use of lenses, prisms, or ocular exercises...
Pagina 70 - Illinois, as one example, required a certificate of registration of anyone practising beauty culture, which was legally defined as "the application of cosmetic preparations to the human body by massaging, stroking, kneading, slapping, tapping, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, cleansing, or by means of devices, apparatus or appliances, and arranging, dressing, marcelling, curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, colouring, dyeing, tinting or otherwise treating by any means the hair of...
Pagina 84 - ... operations. In the great manufacturing industries patients are sometimes severely injured through inadvertent contact with Frankensteinian machines, and it becomes necessary to rebuild features or to replace scalps that have been torn away. Great hospitals and funds are available for carrying on such surgical procedures. But only a few really competent surgeons find time or inclination for the type of plastic surgery performed wholly for esthetic reasons. That is the field which has been invaded...
Pagina 70 - Illinois one cannot practice beauty culture without a certificate of registration as a beauty culturist. "Any one or any combination of the following practices constitutes the practice of beauty culture when done for cosmetic or beautifying purposes and not for the treatment of disease or of muscular or nervous disorder," says the law. Here, indeed, is a fine distinction, and the specifications go on to convey suggestions titillating to an active imagination. Beauty culture, according to the act,...