Provincial Medical & Surgical JournalJohn Churchill, 1847 - Medicine |
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Page 419 - Park paid Scott a farewell visit, and slept at Ashestiel. Next morning his host accompanied him homewards over the wild chain of hills between the Tweed and the Yarrow. Park talked much of his new scheme, and mentioned his determination to tell his family that he had some business for a day or two in Edinburgh, and send them his blessing from thence, without returning to take leave. He had married, not long before, a pretty and amiable woman ; and when they reached the Williamhope ridge, " the autumnal...
Page 22 - Thirty-second years of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria intituled an Act...
Page 23 - Provisions •of this Act shall be exempt, if he shall so desire, from serving on all Juries and Inquests whatsoever, and from serving all Corporate, Parochial, Ward, Hundred, and .Township Offices, and from serving in the Militia, and the Name of such Person shall not be returned in any List of Persons liable to serve in the Militia, or in any such Office as aforesaid.
Page 21 - Persons therein specified are registered according to the Provisions of this Act ; and the Absence of the Name of any Person from such Copy shall be Evidence, until the contrary be made to appear, that such Person is not registered according to the Provisions of this Act...
Page 22 - Any Person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be or take or use the Name or Title of a Physician, Doctor of Medicine, Licentiate in Medicine and Surgery, Bachelor of Medicine, Surgeon, General Practitioner or Apothecary, or any Name, Title, Addition, or Description implying that he is registered under this Act...
Page 419 - This was the manner in which I used to ascertain the depth of a river in Africa before I ventured to cross it — judging whether the attempt would be safe, by the time the bubbles of ah- took to ascend.
Page 24 - That every Act made after the Commencement of this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such, unless the contrary be expressly provided and declared by such Act.
Page 21 - Register;" and a Copy of the Medical Register for the Time being, purporting to be so printed and published as aforesaid, shall be Evidence in all Courts and before all Justices of the Peace and others that the Persons therein specified are registered according to the Provisions of this Act...
Page 23 - That nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to prejudice, or in any way to affect the trade or business of a Chemist and Druggist, in the buying, preparing, compounding, dispensing, and vending Drugs, Medicines, and Medicinable Compounds, wholesale and retail...
Page 251 - We, the undersigned, are of opinion, — " 1. That a very large proportion of human misery, including poverty, disease, and crime, is induced by the use of alcoholic or fermented liquors as beverages. "2. That the most perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from all such intoxicating beverages, whether in the form of ardent spirits, or as wine, beer, ale, porter, cider, &c.