The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essays, 1842-1882Printed at the Riverside Press, 1891 |
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Page xvi
... young mothers by calling attention to the existence and prop- agation of " Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence , " and laying down rules for taking the necessary pre- cautions against it . The case has long been decided in favor of ...
... young mothers by calling attention to the existence and prop- agation of " Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence , " and laying down rules for taking the necessary pre- cautions against it . The case has long been decided in favor of ...
Page xix
... BEDSIDE TEACHING 209 273 VI . THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS 312 VII . THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER . 370 VIII . MEDICAL LIBRARIES • 396 IX . SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS . 420 MEDICAL ESSAYS . I. HOMEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS .
... BEDSIDE TEACHING 209 273 VI . THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN MASSACHUSETTS 312 VII . THE YOUNG PRACTITIONER . 370 VIII . MEDICAL LIBRARIES • 396 IX . SOME OF MY EARLY TEACHERS . 420 MEDICAL ESSAYS . I. HOMEOPATHY AND ITS KINDRED DELUSIONS .
Page 65
... young man took , by the counsel of a surgeon , an acrid and virulent medicine , the name of which is not given , which brought on a most cruel fit of the gripes and colic . After this another surgeon was called , who gave him oil of ...
... young man took , by the counsel of a surgeon , an acrid and virulent medicine , the name of which is not given , which brought on a most cruel fit of the gripes and colic . After this another surgeon was called , who gave him oil of ...
Page 70
... young enthusiasm by the habit of tranquil observation . Those who know noth- ing of the natural progress of a malady , of its ordinary duration , of its various modes of terminating , of its lia- bility to accidental complications , of ...
... young enthusiasm by the habit of tranquil observation . Those who know noth- ing of the natural progress of a malady , of its ordinary duration , of its various modes of terminating , of its lia- bility to accidental complications , of ...
Page 76
... young woman affected with jaun- dice is mentioned in the German " Annals of Clinical Homœopathy " as having been cured in twenty - nine days by pulsatilla and nux vomica . Rummel , a well- known writer of the same school , speaks of ...
... young woman affected with jaun- dice is mentioned in the German " Annals of Clinical Homœopathy " as having been cured in twenty - nine days by pulsatilla and nux vomica . Rummel , a well- known writer of the same school , speaks 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.