The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essays, 1842-1882Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 |
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... 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 do him a favor 8 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
... 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 do him a favor 8 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
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... success of this delusion , the respect- ability and enthusiasm of its advocates , is of great in- terest in showing to what extent and by what means a considerable part of the community may be led into the belief of that which is to be ...
... success of this delusion , the respect- ability and enthusiasm of its advocates , is of great in- terest in showing to what extent and by what means a considerable part of the community may be led into the belief of that which is to be ...
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... success , in a respectable octavo volume . In the year 1804 an establishment , honored with the name of the Perkinean Institution , was founded in London . The transactions of this institu- tion were published in pamphlets , the ...
... success , in a respectable octavo volume . In the year 1804 an establishment , honored with the name of the Perkinean Institution , was founded in London . The transactions of this institu- tion were published in pamphlets , the ...
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... success in several other cases in my own family , and al- though , like Naaman the Syrian , I cannot tell why the waters of Jordan should be better than Abana and Pharpar , rivers of Damascus ; yet since expe- rience has proved them so ...
... success in several other cases in my own family , and al- though , like Naaman the Syrian , I cannot tell why the waters of Jordan should be better than Abana and Pharpar , rivers of Damascus ; yet since expe- rience has proved them so ...
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... success of the trial . The in- ventor of the Tractors was aware of these truths . therefore sent the Tractors gratuitously to many cler- gymen , accompanied with a formal certificate that the holder had become entitled to their ...
... success of the trial . The in- ventor of the Tractors was aware of these truths . therefore sent the Tractors gratuitously to many cler- gymen , accompanied with a formal certificate that the holder had become entitled to their ...
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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.