The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essays, 1842-1882Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 |
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Page vii
... treatment , has been owing to the fact that it showed the movements of disease to be far more independent of the kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that ...
... treatment , has been owing to the fact that it showed the movements of disease to be far more independent of the kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that ...
Page ix
... treated with con- tempt . Infinitesimal doses are replaced by full ones whenever the fancy - practitioner chooses . Good Ho- mœopathic reasons can be found for employing any- thing that anybody wants to employ . Homœopathy is now merely ...
... treated with con- tempt . Infinitesimal doses are replaced by full ones whenever the fancy - practitioner chooses . Good Ho- mœopathic reasons can be found for employing any- thing that anybody wants to employ . Homœopathy is now merely ...
Page x
... treating everything by specifics , the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons , 1 against which a part of the Discourse at the beginning of this volume is directed . - If The infinitesimal globules have not become ...
... treating everything by specifics , the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons , 1 against which a part of the Discourse at the beginning of this volume is directed . - If The infinitesimal globules have not become ...
Page xiv
... treatment by infinitesimal drugging , which they consider equivalent to no medi- cation at all , they come to disbelieve in every form of drugging and put their whole trust in " nature . " Thus experience , " From seeming evil still ...
... treatment by infinitesimal drugging , which they consider equivalent to no medi- cation at all , they come to disbelieve in every form of drugging and put their whole trust in " nature . " Thus experience , " From seeming evil still ...
Page xv
... treatment . Thirty years ago I ex- pressed myself with more vivacity than I should show if I were writing on the same subjects to - day . Some of my more lively remarks called out very sharp an- imadversion . Thus my illustration of ...
... treatment . Thirty years ago I ex- pressed myself with more vivacity than I should show if I were writing on the same subjects to - day . Some of my more lively remarks called out very sharp an- imadversion . Thus my illustration 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.