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Page 178
... Vesalius , the contemporary of Luther . Who can fail to see one common spirit in the radical ecclesiastic and the reforming court - physician ? Both still to some extent under the dominion of the letter : Luther holding to the real ...
... Vesalius , the contemporary of Luther . Who can fail to see one common spirit in the radical ecclesiastic and the reforming court - physician ? Both still to some extent under the dominion of the letter : Luther holding to the real ...
Page 179
... Vesalius has ever been thanked for his hit at the morals of the religious orders , or for turning to the good of science what was intended for the " benefit of clergy . " Our unfortunate medical brother , Michael Servetus , the ...
... Vesalius has ever been thanked for his hit at the morals of the religious orders , or for turning to the good of science what was intended for the " benefit of clergy . " Our unfortunate medical brother , Michael Servetus , the ...
Page 279
... Vesalius , it might be , or his fig ures repeated in the multifarious volume of Ambroise Paré ; to the Aldine octavo , in which Fallopius recorded his fresh observations ; or that giant folio of Spigelius just issued from the press of ...
... Vesalius , it might be , or his fig ures repeated in the multifarious volume of Ambroise Paré ; to the Aldine octavo , in which Fallopius recorded his fresh observations ; or that giant folio of Spigelius just issued from the press of ...
Page 412
... Vesalius every time I speak of the bones he has so admirably described and figured . But it does please me to read the first de- scriptions of parts to which the names of their discover- ers or those who have first described them have ...
... Vesalius every time I speak of the bones he has so admirably described and figured . But it does please me to read the first de- scriptions of parts to which the names of their discover- ers or those who have first described them have ...
Page 423
... Vesalius and Fallopius , and that the greater part of my teaching was of such a nature that it could never become antiquated . Let me begin with my first experience as a medical student . I had come from the lessons of Judge Story and ...
... Vesalius and Fallopius , and that the greater part of my teaching was of such a nature that it could never become antiquated . Let me begin with my first experience as a medical student . I had come from the lessons of Judge Story and ...
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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 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 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...
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 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 vegetable kingdom robbed of all its noxious growths, the entrails of animals taxed for their impurities, the poison-bags of reptiles drained of their venom, and all the inconceivable abominations thus obtained thrust down the throats of human beings suffering from some fault of organization, nourishment, or vital stimulation.
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...
Page 437 - I remember calling the Voltaire of pelvic literature, — a skeptic 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.