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... seems to be medicine , when among those who have more confidence in drugging than his own fam- ily commonly has , the learned Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word Placebo , or to expunge it ...
... seems to be medicine , when among those who have more confidence in drugging than his own fam- ily commonly has , the learned Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word Placebo , or to expunge it ...
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... seem to have resisted temptation so well as the founder of his order . * We have always ranked the physician Rabelais among the early reformers , but I do not know that Vesalius has ever been thanked for his hit at the morals of the ...
... seem to have resisted temptation so well as the founder of his order . * We have always ranked the physician Rabelais among the early reformers , but I do not know that Vesalius has ever been thanked for his hit at the morals of the ...
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... seems inseparable from the practice of the art of healing . I need only touch on the common modes of misunderstanding or misapply- ing the evidence of nature . First , there is the natural incapacity for sound observation , which is ...
... seems inseparable from the practice of the art of healing . I need only touch on the common modes of misunderstanding or misapply- ing the evidence of nature . First , there is the natural incapacity for sound observation , which is ...
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... seem to apply rather to the tabulation of facts ill observed , or improperly classified , than to the method itself . The post hoc ergo propter hoc error : he got well after taking my medicine ; therefore in consequence of taking it ...
... seem to apply rather to the tabulation of facts ill observed , or improperly classified , than to the method itself . The post hoc ergo propter hoc error : he got well after taking my medicine ; therefore in consequence of taking it ...
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... seems to be sometimes forgotten , by those who must know the fact , that the tongue is very different , anatomically and physiologically , from the stomach . Its condition does not in the least imply a similar one of the stomach , which ...
... seems to be sometimes forgotten , by those who must know the fact , that the tongue is very different , anatomically and physiologically , from the stomach . Its condition does not in the least imply a similar one of the stomach , which ...
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Page 263 - Dr. Merriman related an instance occurring in his own practice, which excites a reasonable suspicion that two lives were sacrificed to a still less dangerous experiment. He was at the examination of a case of puerperal fever at two o'clock in the afternoon. He took care not to touch the body. At nine o'clock the same evening he attended a woman in labor; she was so nearly delivered that he had scarcely 'anything to do. The next morning she had severe rigors, and in forty-eight hours she was a corpse....
Page 232 - I had evident proofs that every person who had been with a patient in the puerperal fever became charged with an atmosphere of infection, which was communicated to every pregnant woman who happened to come within its sphere.
Page 63 - I like well, they do not observe the confecting of the ointment under any certain constellation ; which commonly is the excuse of magical medicines when they fail, that they were not made under a fit figure of heaven.
Page 72 - And to finish these extracts with a most important suggestion for the improvement of the British nation : " It is much to be lamented that our Insulars, who act and think so much for themselves, should yet, from grossness of air and diet, grow stupid or doat sooner than other people, who, by virtue of elastic air, water-drinking, and light food, preserve their faculties to extreme old age ; an advantage which may perhaps be approached, if not equaled, even in these regions, by Tar Water, temperance,...