An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen ...Blackwood, 1859 |
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... give fuller and more accurate definitions of at least the principal genera of diseases . In an address to his pupils , prefixed to this edition , after stating generally the objects and nature of the work , he remarked , that ...
... give fuller and more accurate definitions of at least the principal genera of diseases . In an address to his pupils , prefixed to this edition , after stating generally the objects and nature of the work , he remarked , that ...
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... give new names to diseases ; and I have preferred the circumspection of Ray , Plu- mier , Winslow , Linnæus , and Artedi , to an exactness which might have been regarded as too bold . " At the same time he admits that it always has been ...
... give new names to diseases ; and I have preferred the circumspection of Ray , Plu- mier , Winslow , Linnæus , and Artedi , to an exactness which might have been regarded as too bold . " At the same time he admits that it always has been ...
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... the particular diseases to which it may give rise . But it is not to be expected that there will be found a strict coincidence in the arrange- ments founded upon these different grounds of classifi- cation , 34 LIFE OF DR CULLEN .
... the particular diseases to which it may give rise . But it is not to be expected that there will be found a strict coincidence in the arrange- ments founded upon these different grounds of classifi- cation , 34 LIFE OF DR CULLEN .
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... give rise to special discases , such as inflammation , hæmorrhage , pain , spasm , & c . For though the several diseases depend- ing on any one of these proximate causes differ in many of their phenomena , according to the part of the ...
... give rise to special discases , such as inflammation , hæmorrhage , pain , spasm , & c . For though the several diseases depend- ing on any one of these proximate causes differ in many of their phenomena , according to the part of the ...
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... give what is very general . " " It may not , " he elsewhere observes , " be at all times easy to distinguish between the diseases of the whole system which are included under the three first classes , and those of a single part , or the ...
... give what is very general . " " It may not , " he elsewhere observes , " be at all times easy to distinguish between the diseases of the whole system which are included under the three first classes , and those of a single part , or the ...
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An Account of the Life, Lectures, and Writings of William Cullen: Vol. II John Thomson Limited preview - 2023 |
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Page 241 - And so I thought when I writ it, and can yet conceive no other way of their operation. But I am since convinced by the judicious Mr. Newton's incomparable book, that it is too bold a presumption to limit God's power, in this point, by my narrow conceptions. The gravitation of matter towards matter, by ways...
Page 339 - As a remedy against the great excitement of the organs of voluntary motion, the labour of draft cattle should be imposed upon him, and assiduously continued. The diet should be the poorest possible, and his drink only water. In water, as cold as possible, the patient should be immersed, and kept under it, covered all over, for a long time, till he is near killed!