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Page vii
... treatment , has been owing to the fact that it showed the movements of disease to be far more independent of the kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that ...
... treatment , has been owing to the fact that it showed the movements of disease to be far more independent of the kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that ...
Page ix
... treated with con- tempt . Infinitesimal doses are replaced by full ones whenever the fancy - practitioner chooses . Good Ho- mœopathic reasons can be found for employing any- thing that anybody wants to employ . Homœopathy is now merely ...
... treated with con- tempt . Infinitesimal doses are replaced by full ones whenever the fancy - practitioner chooses . Good Ho- mœopathic reasons can be found for employing any- thing that anybody wants to employ . Homœopathy is now merely ...
Page x
... treating everything by specifics , the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons , 1 against which a part of the Discourse at the beginning of this volume is directed . - The infinitesimal globules have not become a ...
... treating everything by specifics , the old barbarous notion that sick people should feed on poisons , 1 against which a part of the Discourse at the beginning of this volume is directed . - The infinitesimal globules have not become a ...
Page xiv
... treatment by infinitesimal drugging , which they consider equivalent to no medi- cation at all , they come to disbelieve in every form of drugging and put their whole trust in " nature . " Thus experience , " From seeming evil still ...
... treatment by infinitesimal drugging , which they consider equivalent to no medi- cation at all , they come to disbelieve in every form of drugging and put their whole trust in " nature . " Thus experience , " From seeming evil still ...
Page xv
... treatment . Thirty years ago I ex- pressed myself with more vivacity than I should show if I were writing on the same subjects to - day . Some of my more lively remarks called out very sharp an- imadversion . Thus my illustration of ...
... treatment . Thirty years ago I ex- pressed myself with more vivacity than I should show if I were writing on the same subjects to - day . Some of my more lively remarks called out very sharp an- imadversion . Thus my illustration of ...
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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.