A clinical study of the skull / by Harrison Allen.

  • Allen, Harrison, 1841-1897.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A clinical study of the skull / by Harrison Allen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been instituted at Washington, D. C, by Joseph M. Toner, M. D., of this city, for the promotion of medical science. With this object the founder has placed in charge of a Board of Trustees, con- sisting of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the Surgeon- General of the United States Army, the Surgeon-General of the United States Navy, and the President of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, a fund, the interest of which is to be applied for memoirs or essays relative to some branch of medical science, and containing some new truth fully established by experi- ment or observation. The publication of these Lectures has been undertaken by the Smithsonian Institution, as falling legitimately within its funda- mental purpose, the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men. The series of Toner Lectures, published by the Institu- tion in pamphlet form, is as follows : I. On the Structure of Cancerous Tumors and the mode in which adjacent parts are invaded. By Dr. J. J. Woodward. De- livered March 28,1873. Published November, 1873. 8vo., 42 pp. II. Dual Character of the Brain. By Dr. C. E. Brown- Sj'^uard. Delivered April 22, 1874. Published January, 1877. 8vo., 23 pp. III. On Strain ami Over-Action of the Heart. By Dr. J. M. Da Costa. Delivered May 14, 1874. Published August, 1874. 8vo., 30 pp. IV. A Study of the Nature and Mechanism of Fever. By Dr. H. C. Wood. Delivered January 20, 1875. Published Feb- ruary, 1875. 8vo., 47 pp.