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... body in health and disease , would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners . To deny that some patients may have been actually benefited through the influence exerted upon their imaginations , would be to ...
... body in health and disease , would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners . To deny that some patients may have been actually benefited through the influence exerted upon their imaginations , would be to ...
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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS. So long as the body is affected through the mind , no audacious device , even of the most manifestly dishonest character , can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS. So long as the body is affected through the mind , no audacious device , even of the most manifestly dishonest character , can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial ...
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... bodies usually supposed to take an interest in scientific discoveries , or only of individuals whose claims to distinction were founded upon their position in society , or political station , or literary em- inence ; whether the ...
... bodies usually supposed to take an interest in scientific discoveries , or only of individuals whose claims to distinction were founded upon their position in society , or political station , or literary em- inence ; whether the ...
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... body which for ages has constituted the best tribunal to which Britain can appeal in questions of science , accepted Mr. Perkins's Tractors and the book written about them , passed the customary vote of thanks , and never thought of ...
... body which for ages has constituted the best tribunal to which Britain can appeal in questions of science , accepted Mr. Perkins's Tractors and the book written about them , passed the customary vote of thanks , and never thought of ...
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... body and on horses , etc. " But the progress of facts in Great Brit- ain did not stop here . Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials , as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical nov ...
... body and on horses , etc. " But the progress of facts in Great Brit- ain did not stop here . Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials , as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical nov ...
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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.