The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essays, 1842-1882Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 41
Page vi
... Journal . " Currents and Counter - Currents " was written and delivered as an Oration , a florid rhetorical composi- tion , expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners . It succeeded in doing ...
... Journal . " Currents and Counter - Currents " was written and delivered as an Oration , a florid rhetorical composi- tion , expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners . It succeeded in doing ...
Page xvi
... Journal which lasted but a single year . It naturally attracted less attention than it would have done if published in such a periodical as the " American Journal of Medical Sciences . " Still it had its effect , as I have every reason ...
... Journal which lasted but a single year . It naturally attracted less attention than it would have done if published in such a periodical as the " American Journal of Medical Sciences . " Still it had its effect , as I have every reason ...
Page 4
... a Cause , would be attended by an extraordi- nary assistance of God , and some more then ordinary a Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , vol . iii . p . 103 . miracle : nor did their Faith deceive them in this 4 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
... a Cause , would be attended by an extraordi- nary assistance of God , and some more then ordinary a Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , vol . iii . p . 103 . miracle : nor did their Faith deceive them in this 4 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
Page 20
... journals being occupied with subjects of more per- manent interest . The state of things in London is best learned , however , from the satirical poem to which I have already alluded as having been written at the period referred to ...
... journals being occupied with subjects of more per- manent interest . The state of things in London is best learned , however , from the satirical poem to which I have already alluded as having been written at the period referred to ...
Page 41
... journals , pamphlets , and even lectures , by inexperienced dilettanti , the same channel must be open to all its opponents . It is necessary , for the sake of those to whom the whole subject may be new , to give in the smallest ...
... journals , pamphlets , and even lectures , by inexperienced dilettanti , the same channel must be open to all its opponents . It is necessary , for the sake of those to whom the whole subject may be new , to give in the smallest ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ambroise Paré anatomy attended authority believe body Boston Boston Athenæum called calomel cause century cinchona common contagion Cotton Mather course cure died disease doctrine doses doubt drugs England epilepsy erysipelas Essay evidence examination experience facts favor friends give Hahnemann hands healing Homœopathy honored Hospital hundred instance James Jackson John John Winthrop Journal knowledge labor learned lecture less letter living look Massachusetts Medical Society means medi medical profession medicine ment mentioned Midwifery mind nature never observation opathic opinion organs patient Perkinism persons physi physician Physiology poison prac practice practitioner Professor proved puerperal fever question referred remedies remember Samuel Hahnemann scientific sick small-pox Society speak statement student substances suppose surgeon symptoms teach thing thought tion Tractors treatment truth Veratrum viride Vesalius whole Winthrop women words young
Popular passages
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 381 - He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not : one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
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 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 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 437 - I remember calling the Voltaire of pelvic literature, — a sceptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would have submitted Diana to treatment with his mineral specifics, and ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins.
Page 265 - The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system of self-deception, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the...
Page 137 - A practitioner opened the body of a woman who had died of puerperal fever, and continued to wear the same clothes. A lady whom he delivered a few days afterwards was attacked with and died of a similar disease ; two more of his lying-in patients, in rapid succession, met with the same fate ; struck by the thought, that he might have carried contagion in his clothes, he instantly changed them, and met with no more cases of the kind.
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.