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Theophilus Parvin was born on January 9, 1829 in Buenos Aires, Argentine. His father, Theophilus Parvin, was a Presbyterian missionary. His mother, Mary Rodney, was a daughter of Cæsar Augustus Rodney.
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Excerpt from Philosophical Problems of Medicine: Presidential Address Before the American Medical Association, at the Thirtieth Annual Session, Atlanta, Ga., May 6, 1879 Science, Literature, Philosophy, and Theology are the great subjects of human study. Science is the knowledge of nature and of nature's laws. Literature, including history, is the representation of man's life; it tells his joys and sorrows, his aspirations and achievements, his victories and defeats, his glory and shame; it is man's autobiography. Philosophy studies man's psychical nature, both in its mental and moral mani foetations; it seeks to discover the relation he bears to the past and to the future, to nature and to the universe, and in its highest development brings the reflecting mind to believe in an ultimate unity, a great first cause, the fountain of all other causes, a power originant of them if not immanent in them. Theology discusses the being, attributes, and providence of the Divine, the uncreated, the eternal, whose existence philosophy in its sublimest aspirations maintains, even if that existence he not one of the fundamental convictions of the human mind. Nevertheless, these divisions are in some degree arbitrary. For example, if there be a Divine Being, all-wise and all powerful, and nature his creation, his name will be recorded on its pages; and to the study of such record, the title of natural theology has been given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from A Physician on Vivisection: Extracts From the Annual Address Before the American Academy of Medicine, Washington, May 4, 1891 HE subject of bacteriology has, I believe, undue importance in professional study and teaching. May not a similar state ment be made in regard to vivisection? My belief is that the value of this method of study in relation to surgery and therapeutics has been exaggerated. So far as the first depart ment is concerned, reference will be made to abdominal and to brain surgery. If Mr. Tait's statement is accepted, and his authority and ability none can justly question, - vivisection has been an injury, not a help, to the former. His declarations Upon this point have been positive and frequent. One of the most recent, 1889, is as follows: Instead Of vivisection having in any way advanced abdominal sur gery, it has, on the contrary, retarded it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Excerpt from The Science and Art of Obstetrics Further should an unfavorable result occur, the public is apt to visit unjust reproach upon the obstetrician; it is Slow to understand how that which is usually a physiological process may end in death or in lasting disability. The obstetrician thus not only rests under greater responsibility than the physician or the surgeon, but is also liable to severer censure in case of failure or misfortune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Theophilus Parvin was born on January 9, 1829 in Buenos Aires, Argentine. His father, Theophilus Parvin, was a Presbyterian missionary. His mother, Mary Rodney, was a daughter of Cæsar Augustus Rodney.
Theophilus Parvin was sent to Philadelphia for education at an early age and, when eleven, entered the preparatory department of Lafayette College. In 1847 he graduated from Indiana University. During the next three years he taught in the high school of Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and also studied Hebrew in the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1852 Theophilus Parvin finished the two years' medical course at the University of Pennsylvania and received his doctorate in medicine.
For a time Theophilus Parvin was resident physician at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. He then began independent practice in Indianapolis and in 1861 he was elected president of the Indiana Medical Society. Three years later Parvin accepted the professorship in materia medica at the Medical College of Ohio, where he taught five years. In 1869 he became professor of obstetrics at Louisville University but, in 1872, transferred to a similar chair in the Indiana Medical College. In 1879 Theophilus Parvin was president of the American Medical Association and delivered the presidential address at the meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. He returned to Philadelphia in 1883 as professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Jefferson Medical College and was with the institution until his death. Parvin gained an international reputation as an authority on obstetrics. His knowledge of the science and literature of the subject was prodigious. As a practical obstetrician, however, he was without manual dexterity and had less experience as an operator than many of his contemporaries.
His Science and Art of Obstetrics appeared in 1886, and the following year he edited A Handbook of Diseases of Women, translated under his supervision from the original work of von Winkel. He was coeditor of the Cincinnati Journal of Medicine, 1866 - 1867, editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, 1867 - 1869, and coeditor of the American Practitioner, 1869 - 1883. Theophilus Parvin died in Philadelphia of cardiac asthma on January 29, 1898.
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Theophilus Parvin was a member of the American Philosophical Society, an honorary member of the Washington Obstetrical and Gynecological Society, and honorary fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society. He was president of the Indiana state medical society (1861), and of the American medical association (1879). At various times he served as president of the American Medical Journalists' Association, of the American Academy of Medicine, of the American Gynecological Society, and of the Philadelphia Obstetrical Society.
In 1853 Theophilus Parvin married Rachel Butler, of Hanover, Indiana. They had two sons and a daughter.
