The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essays, 1842-1882Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 |
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... - shops would sufficiently supply the not very extensive or urgent demand for a paper al- most half a century old . Some of these papers created a little stir when they first fell from the press into the pool of public.
... - shops would sufficiently supply the not very extensive or urgent demand for a paper al- most half a century old . Some of these papers created a little stir when they first fell from the press into the pool of public.
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... century ago , we have all had a chance to wit- ness its practical working . Two opposite inferences may be drawn from its doctrines and practice . The first is that which is accepted by its disciples . This is that all diseases are ...
... century ago , we have all had a chance to wit- ness its practical working . Two opposite inferences may be drawn from its doctrines and practice . The first is that which is accepted by its disciples . This is that all diseases are ...
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... century . The Grand Duke of Florence , in which city the friar was residing , heard of his cures , and tried , but without success , to obtain his secret . Sir Kenelm Digby , an Englishman well known to D fame , was fortunate enough to ...
... century . The Grand Duke of Florence , in which city the friar was residing , heard of his cures , and tried , but without success , to obtain his secret . Sir Kenelm Digby , an Englishman well known to D fame , was fortunate enough to ...
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... 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 sweet influences of Pleiades , or loose the bands of Orion ? I do ...
... 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 sweet influences of Pleiades , or loose the bands of Orion ? I do ...
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... century . The one great doctrine which constitutes the basis of Homœopathy as a system is expressed by the Latin aphorism , " SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR , ” or like cures like , that is , diseases are cured by agents capable of ...
... century . The one great doctrine which constitutes the basis of Homœopathy as a system is expressed by the Latin aphorism , " SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURANTUR , ” or like cures like , that is , diseases are cured by agents capable of ...
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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.