Imagination and Idealism in the Medical Sciences (Classic Reprint)
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The fine humanitarian aim of medicine always has been and always will be one of the features that make men love to practice the art. And the idealism that delights in the relief of human suffering and disability will remain alive so long as the healing art itself. But we must not blind ourselves to the fact that this very attitude of eager desire to help our fellows in distress is a source of weakness as well as a pillar of strength. For he who would answer the calls of the sick must resort to direct methods and must generally tread the paths of the obvious. He has not time to turn aside to the indi rect ways of winning the citadel, nor, indeed, is he likely to be in that frame of mind which urges to such an approach he is preoccupied with the crying needs of the suffering or dying man committed to his charge. Yet it is growing every day clearer that the progress of the medical sciences depends in a remarkable degree on discoveries made by indirect methods - that is, by meth ods not looking to the immediate relief of disease.
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Influence of Saccharin on the Nutrition and Health of Man; Volume No.94
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Lectures on Chemical Pathology in Its Relation to Practical Medicine: Delivered at the University and Bellevue Medical School, New York City (Classic Reprint)
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The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications Arising From Them
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Christian Archibald Herter was an American physician and biochemist. He served as professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1903 to 1910.
Background
Christian Herter was born on Sptember 3, 1865, in Glenville, Connecticut, United States, the son of Christian Herter and Mary (Miles) Herter. His father, who was of German parentage, was well known as an artist and interior decorator. Young Herter was brought up mainly in New York City.
Education
Although Christian was a graduate of the Columbia Grammar School, most of his preliminary education was private, under the direction of his father, and comprised music and the fine arts. Selecting for himself the career of a physician, he received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia) in 1885.
Career
In 1888 Christian Herter settled in New York and on the uppermost floor of his sumptuous residence, 819 Madison Ave. , he established a laboratory where for many years he experimented in bacteriology, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology. At the same time he led the life of a practising physician, and even after his laboratory and teaching efforts came to encroach more and more heavily on his work in clinical medicine, he retained his connection with hospitals. From 1894 to 1904, for example, he was visiting physician to the New York City Hospital.
In 1898 Herter was given the chair of pathological chemistry at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, but in 1903 he joined the faculty of his alma mater, Columbia, as professor of pharmacology and therapeutics, retaining this chair until his death. Beginning with 1901 he became closely identified with the new Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; he was its treasurer for several years, a director, and for a time, one of the visiting physicians to its hospital.
Very early in his career Herter developed strong leanings toward clinical neurology, and in 1892 he published his first book, The Diagnosis of Diseases of the Nervous System. He also contributed “Diseases of the Cranial Nerves” to X. Dercum’s Textbook of Nervous Diseases by American Authors, which appeared in 1895. Eventually he seems to have lost his interest in neurology, however, for when a second edition of his textbook on diagnosis was issued in 1907 (The Diagnosis of Organic Nervous Diseases) he turned the revision over to Dr. L. Pierce Clark and took no part in the work himself. In 1902 appeared his second book, Lectures on Chemical Pathology in Its Relation to Practical Medicine, regarded as somewhat of an epoch-making work. This was followed by The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxication Arising from Them (1907).
On Infantilism from Chronic Intestinal Infection (1908), which work, regarded as a classic, was at once translated into German and served to make the condition now known as “Herter’s infantilism” generally familiar; and the posthumous work, Biological Aspects of Human Problems (1911), in which the author entered into the rare domain of medical philosophy. In addition he contributed to periodical literature more than seventy scientific articles, largely the results of his own research. In 1905, with Professor J. J. Abel of Johns Hopkins he founded and edited the Journal of Biological Chemistry, of which in 1909-1910 he was sole editor.
For several years before his death he was in failing health and endured considerable suffering, but he was active to the last. He died in his forty-sixth year.