The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essays, 1842-1882Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 |
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Page vii
... kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that medicines are more sparingly used in physicians ' families than in most others , ad- mits of a very natural ...
... kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that medicines are more sparingly used in physicians ' families than in most others , ad- mits of a very natural ...
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... kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint , that he " Had better try Homœopathy , " are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding , that " at any rate it can do no harm . " This may or may not be true as ...
... kind friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint , that he " Had better try Homœopathy , " are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding , that " at any rate it can do no harm . " This may or may not be true as ...
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... resemblance to that of Perkinism , that the former is most frequently advocated by the same class of per- sons who were conspicuous in behalf of the latter , and treated with contempt or opposed by the same kind of 16 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
... resemblance to that of Perkinism , that the former is most frequently advocated by the same class of per- sons who were conspicuous in behalf of the latter , and treated with contempt or opposed by the same kind of 16 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. treated with contempt or opposed by the same kind of persons who thus treated Perkinism ; if the facts in favor of both have a similar aspect ; if the motives of their originators and propagators may be presumed to ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. treated with contempt or opposed by the same kind of persons who thus treated Perkinism ; if the facts in favor of both have a similar aspect ; if the motives of their originators and propagators may be presumed to ...
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... kind . " This course of argument is so often employed , that it deserves to be expanded a little , so that its length and breadth may be fairly seen . A series of what are called facts is brought forward to prove some very improbable ...
... kind . " This course of argument is so often employed , that it deserves to be expanded a little , so that its length and breadth may be fairly seen . A series of what are called facts is brought forward to prove some very improbable ...
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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.