The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: Medical essaysHoughton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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Page vii
... seems to be medicine , when among those who have more confidence in drugging than his own family commonly has , the learned Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word Placebo , or to expunge it ...
... seems to be medicine , when among those who have more confidence in drugging than his own family commonly has , the learned Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word Placebo , or to expunge it ...
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... seem disposed to take the ground of Menzel , that the Laity must pass formal judgment between the Physician and the Homœopathist , as it once did between Luther and the Romanists . The practitioner and the scholar must not , therefore ...
... seem disposed to take the ground of Menzel , that the Laity must pass formal judgment between the Physician and the Homœopathist , as it once did between Luther and the Romanists . The practitioner and the scholar must not , therefore ...
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... seem anything remarkable in the fact of such astonishing properties being developed by this process , it must be from our short - sightedness , for common salt and char- coal develop powers quite as marvellous after a certain number of ...
... seem anything remarkable in the fact of such astonishing properties being developed by this process , it must be from our short - sightedness , for common salt and char- coal develop powers quite as marvellous after a certain number of ...
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... seems a fair one , that it did not deserve to live . Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions , it is fair to call it an imposition ; whether an expressly fraud- ulent contrivance or not , some might be ready to ques- tion ...
... seems a fair one , that it did not deserve to live . Contrasting its failure with its high pretensions , it is fair to call it an imposition ; whether an expressly fraud- ulent contrivance or not , some might be ready to ques- tion ...
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... seem there would be but little doubt of their being generally adopted ; but if the numerous reports of their efficacy which have been published are forgeries , or are unfounded , the practice ought to be crushed . " To this I merely add ...
... seem there would be but little doubt of their being generally adopted ; but if the numerous reports of their efficacy which have been published are forgeries , or are unfounded , the practice ought to be crushed . " To this I merely add ...
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