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Page vii
... of the word Placebo , or to expunge it from his Medical Dictionary . One thing is certain . A loud outcry on a slight touch reveals the weak spot in a profession , as well as in a patient . It is a doubtful policy to PREFACE . vii.
... of the word Placebo , or to expunge it from his Medical Dictionary . One thing is certain . A loud outcry on a slight touch reveals the weak spot in a profession , as well as in a patient . It is a doubtful policy to PREFACE . vii.
Page viii
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS. in a patient . It is a doubtful policy to oppose the freest speech in those of our own number who are try- ing to show us where they honestly believe our weak- ness lies . Vast as are the advances of our Science and ...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS. in a patient . It is a doubtful policy to oppose the freest speech in those of our own number who are try- ing to show us where they honestly believe our weak- ness lies . Vast as are the advances of our Science and ...
Page ix
... patient's bed , and the Homœopathic counsellor overruled or dis- carded . Again , how many of the ardent and capri- cious persons who embraced Homœopathy have run the whole round of pretentious novelties ; have been boarded at water ...
... patient's bed , and the Homœopathic counsellor overruled or dis- carded . Again , how many of the ardent and capri- cious persons who embraced Homœopathy have run the whole round of pretentious novelties ; have been boarded at water ...
Page xvi
... patient draughts and boluses for which he could charge him , he was in a pitiable position and too likely to persuade himself that his drugs were useful to his pa- tient because they were profitable to him . This prac- tice has ...
... patient draughts and boluses for which he could charge him , he was in a pitiable position and too likely to persuade himself that his drugs were useful to his pa- tient because they were profitable to him . This prac- tice has ...
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... patients , performed the royal operation upon a child , who , in spite of his disease , grew up at last into Samuel ... patient . Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the ...
... patients , performed the royal operation upon a child , who , in spite of his disease , grew up at last into Samuel ... patient . Very strict precautions were adopted to prevent those who thought more of the golden angel hung round the ...
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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.
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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 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...
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