Lectures on medical education, or, On the proper method of studying medicineLindsay & Blakiston, 1864 - 152 pages |
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... Humanity - Results of Clinical Experience . CONVERSATION as a Means of acquiring Knowledge - Its Utility to Students - Dan- gers to be Avoided ........ LECTURE V. - MEDICAL SCHOOLS . Controversy respecting Them - Difference between ...
... Humanity - Results of Clinical Experience . CONVERSATION as a Means of acquiring Knowledge - Its Utility to Students - Dan- gers to be Avoided ........ LECTURE V. - MEDICAL SCHOOLS . Controversy respecting Them - Difference between ...
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... human body and the human mind ; beneficent labours , devoted to the carrying of health and safety , or of solace and relief , to the afflicted and miserable among our fellow - men . When we consider what our profession is , what it has ...
... human body and the human mind ; beneficent labours , devoted to the carrying of health and safety , or of solace and relief , to the afflicted and miserable among our fellow - men . When we consider what our profession is , what it has ...
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... human mind , and the brief duration of human life . The making of books , from the days of Cadmus down to the present time , has been the business or the amusement of some of the wisest and some of the least wise of our race , of some ...
... human mind , and the brief duration of human life . The making of books , from the days of Cadmus down to the present time , has been the business or the amusement of some of the wisest and some of the least wise of our race , of some ...
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... human race , and especially from the readers of his own works , in the remarkable circumstance that he never slept at all . Now , with regard to all of these grave cases , ad- mitting them to be correctly stated , which is a libe- ral ...
... human race , and especially from the readers of his own works , in the remarkable circumstance that he never slept at all . Now , with regard to all of these grave cases , ad- mitting them to be correctly stated , which is a libe- ral ...
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... fixing it in the memory ; for that faculty , as Locke has remarked , depends very much upon at- tention and repetition . * * Essay on the Human Understanding , B. 2. C. 10 . To the labour of thinking while you read , you 64 LECTURES ON.
... fixing it in the memory ; for that faculty , as Locke has remarked , depends very much upon at- tention and repetition . * * Essay on the Human Understanding , B. 2. C. 10 . To the labour of thinking while you read , you 64 LECTURES ON.
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Page 77 - Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 50 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Page 46 - Tis not a melancholy Utinam of my own, but the desires of better heads, that there were a general Synod; not to unite the incompatible difference of Religion, but for the benefit of learning, to reduce it as it lay at first, in a few and solid Authors; and to condemn to the fire those swarms and millions of Rhapsodies, begotten only to distract and abuse the weaker judgements of Scholars, and to maintain the trade and mystery of Typographers.
Page 74 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?
Page 116 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 129 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 48 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more; For all books else appear so mean, to poor, Verse will seem prose: but still persist to read, And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 66 - He was as rapid a reader as could be conceived, having the power of perceiving by a glance down the page whether it contained anything which he was likely to make use of — a slip of paper lay on his desk, and was used as a marker, and with a slight...
Page 78 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 78 - The secrets of the abyss to spy. He passed the flaming bounds of space and time . The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze ; He saw, but, blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night.