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... Journal . " Currents and Counter - Currents " was written and delivered as an Oration , a florid rhetorical composi- tion , expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners . It succeeded in doing ...
... Journal . " Currents and Counter - Currents " was written and delivered as an Oration , a florid rhetorical composi- tion , expressly intended to secure the attention of an audience not easy to hold as listeners . It succeeded in doing ...
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... Journal which lasted but a single year . It naturally attracted less attention than it would have done if published in such a periodical as the " American Journal of Medical Sciences . " Still it had its effect , as I have every reason ...
... Journal which lasted but a single year . It naturally attracted less attention than it would have done if published in such a periodical as the " American Journal of Medical Sciences . " Still it had its effect , as I have every reason ...
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... a Cause , would be attended by an extraordi- nary assistance of God , and some more then ordinary a Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , vol . iii . p . 103 . miracle : nor did their Faith deceive them in this 4 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
... a Cause , would be attended by an extraordi- nary assistance of God , and some more then ordinary a Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , vol . iii . p . 103 . miracle : nor did their Faith deceive them in this 4 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
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... journals being occupied with subjects of more per- manent interest . The state of things in London is best learned , however , from the satirical poem to which I have already alluded as having been written at the period referred to ...
... journals being occupied with subjects of more per- manent interest . The state of things in London is best learned , however , from the satirical poem to which I have already alluded as having been written at the period referred to ...
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... journals , pamphlets , and even lectures , by inexperienced dilettanti , the same channel must be open to all its opponents . It is necessary , for the sake of those to whom the whole subject may be new , to give in the smallest ...
... journals , pamphlets , and even lectures , by inexperienced dilettanti , the same channel must be open to all its opponents . It is necessary , for the sake of those to whom the whole subject may be new , to give in the smallest ...
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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 167 - The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden or stretches her aching limbs.
Page 322 - My Husband hath ventured himself among the Indians for corn, and can get none, as also our honored Governor hath distributed his so far, that a day or two more will put an end to his store, and all the rest, and yet methinks our Children are as cheerful, fat, and lusty with feeding upon those mussels, clambanks and other fish, as they were in England with their fill of bread...
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Page 404 - A great portion of the best writing and reading — literary, scientific, professional, miscellaneous — comes to us now, at stated intervals, in paper covers. The writer appears, as it were, in his shirt-sleeves. As soon as he has delivered his message the book-binder puts a coat on his back, and he joins the forlorn brotherhood of " back volumes," than which, so long as they are unindexed, nothing can be more exasperating.
Page 137 - In the winter of the year 1824, "Several instances occurred of its prevalence among the patients of particular practitioners, whilst others who were equally busy met with few or none. One instance of this kind was very remarkable. A general practitioner, in large midwifery practice, lost so many patients...
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