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The Modern Home Physician

The Modern Home Physician is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Modern Home Physician rather than just read about it. In short: The Modern Home Physician, A New Encyclopedia of Medical Knowledge is a medical encyclopedia first published in 1934 by the Wm. H.

The Modern Home Physician — main illustration
The Modern Home Physician — illustration

Key takeaways

  • The Modern Home Physician belongs to physics; place it in that map before memorising details.
  • Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
  • Connect The Modern Home Physician to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
  • Reproduce the core statement of The Modern Home Physician from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Modern Home Physician, A New Encyclopedia of Medical Knowledge is a medical encyclopedia first published in 1934 by the Wm. H. Wise & Company in New York City. It was edited by Victor Robinson, Ph. C., M.D., who was a physician and professor of the History of Medicine at Temple University's School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and also the editor-in-chief of the reading materials Historia Medicinae, Medical Life, and Medical Review of Reviews. It is a rare medical reference and collector's edition with entries that are in encyclopedic format, alphabetically arranged, and designed for use in the home. It has 728 pages that also contain, apart from the text, 232 photographs and almost 700 drawings.

References

External links The Modern Home Physician (Fifth Edition, 1946), Amazon.com

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Modern Home Physician

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Modern Home Physician claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In physics, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Modern Home Physician before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Modern Home Physician ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Modern Home Physician

In research
The Modern Home Physician appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry
Engineering practice reuses The Modern Home Physician in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom
The Modern Home Physician is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Medical book stubs, Medical manuals, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life
Look for The Modern Home Physician outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.
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How to study The Modern Home Physician in 20 minutes

  1. Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
  2. Close the page and write down what The Modern Home Physician means in your own words.
  3. Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
  4. Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
  5. Explain The Modern Home Physician out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Modern Home Physician in simple terms?

The Modern Home Physician, A New Encyclopedia of Medical Knowledge is a medical encyclopedia first published in 1934 by the Wm. H.

Why does The Modern Home Physician matter?

Because it connects several physics ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Modern Home Physician?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Modern Home Physician.

Tags

  • Medical book stubs
  • Medical manuals

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