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... body in health and disease , would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners . To deny that some patients may have been actually benefited through the influence exerted upon their imaginations , would be to ...
... body in health and disease , would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners . To deny that some patients may have been actually benefited through the influence exerted upon their imaginations , would be to ...
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... bodies usually supposed to take an interest in scientific discoveries , or only of individuals whose claims to distinction were founded upon their position in society , or political station , or literary em- inence ; whether the ...
... bodies usually supposed to take an interest in scientific discoveries , or only of individuals whose claims to distinction were founded upon their position in society , or political station , or literary em- inence ; whether the ...
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... body , the editors of some of the leading periodicals , and sev- eral physicians distinguished at that time , and even now remembered for their services to science and hu- manity , were involved in unsparing denunciations . The work is ...
... body , the editors of some of the leading periodicals , and sev- eral physicians distinguished at that time , and even now remembered for their services to science and hu- manity , were involved in unsparing denunciations . The work is ...
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... body and on horses , etc. " But the progress of facts in Great Brit- ain did not stop here . Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials , as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical nov ...
... body and on horses , etc. " But the progress of facts in Great Brit- ain did not stop here . Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials , as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical nov ...
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... bodies to each other at a given moment of time , perhaps half a century ago , should have any- thing to do with my success or misfortune in any undertaking of to - day . But what right have I to say it cannot be so ? Can I bind the ...
... bodies to each other at a given moment of time , perhaps half a century ago , should have any- thing to do with my success or misfortune in any undertaking of to - day . But what right have I to say it cannot be so ? Can I bind the ...
Contents
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BORDER Lines of Knowledge iN SOME PROVINCES | 209 |
SCHOLASTIC AND BEDSIDE TEACHING | 273 |
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS | 312 |
THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER | 370 |
MEDICAL LIBRARIES | 396 |
SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS | 420 |
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Page 410 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page xv - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Page 22 - why won't you listen to reason? I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have bought them. The silver rims alone will sell for double the money.
Page 33 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Page 103 - I ARRIVED AT THAT CERTAINTY IN THE MATTER THAT I COULD VENTURE TO FORETELL WHAT WOMEN WOULD BE AFFECTED WITH THE DISEASE, UPON HEARING BY WHAT MIDWIFE THEY WERE TO BE DELIVERED, OR BY WHAT NURSE THEY WERE TO BE ATTENDED, DURING THEIR LYING-IN: AND ALMOST IN EVERY INSTANCE MY PREDICTION WAS VERIFIED.
Page 11 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman...
Page 120 - You see a man discharge a gun at another : you see the flash, you hear the report, you see the person fall a lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and even testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential,...
Page 149 - It deserves notice that the partner of Dr. C., who attended the autopsy of the man above mentioned and took an active part in it; who also suffered very slightly from a prick under the thumb-nail received during the examination, had twelve cases of midwifery between March 26th and April 12th, all of which did well, and presented no peculiar symptoms. It should also be stated, that during these seventeen days he was in attendance on all the cases of erysipelas in the house where the autopsy had been...