... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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Page 320
... Cotton Mather and hereafter to be referred to , is run- ning over with follies and superstitious fancies ; while his contemporary and fellow - townsman , William Doug- lass , relied on the same few simple remedies which , through Dr ...
... Cotton Mather and hereafter to be referred to , is run- ning over with follies and superstitious fancies ; while his contemporary and fellow - townsman , William Doug- lass , relied on the same few simple remedies which , through Dr ...
Page 321
... Cotton Mather , " when an Honest Man , as I have heard , inviting his Friends to a Dish of Clams , at the Table gave Thanks to Heaven , who had given them to suck the abun a Chronicles of the Pilgrims , p . 129 , note . Ibid . p . 234 ...
... Cotton Mather , " when an Honest Man , as I have heard , inviting his Friends to a Dish of Clams , at the Table gave Thanks to Heaven , who had given them to suck the abun a Chronicles of the Pilgrims , p . 129 , note . Ibid . p . 234 ...
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... Mather says of the sons of Charles Chauncy , " All of these did , while they had Opportunity , Preach the Gospel ... Cotton Mather's Funeral Sermon , preached January 24 , said to have saved many in a kind of pestilence THE MEDICAL ...
... Mather says of the sons of Charles Chauncy , " All of these did , while they had Opportunity , Preach the Gospel ... Cotton Mather's Funeral Sermon , preached January 24 , said to have saved many in a kind of pestilence THE MEDICAL ...
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... Mather written in it , and was doubtless early overhauled by the youthful • Mather Papers in Hist . Coll . 4th Series , vol . viii . p . 420 . Ibid . , note . Cotton , who refers to the great anatomist's singular death 342 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
... Mather written in it , and was doubtless early overhauled by the youthful • Mather Papers in Hist . Coll . 4th Series , vol . viii . p . 420 . Ibid . , note . Cotton , who refers to the great anatomist's singular death 342 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
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... Cotton Mather , browsing , as was his wont , on all the printed fodder that came within reach of his ever - grinding mandibles , came upon an account of in- oculation as practised in Turkey , contained in the " Philosophical ...
... Cotton Mather , browsing , as was his wont , on all the printed fodder that came within reach of his ever - grinding mandibles , came upon an account of in- oculation as practised in Turkey , contained in the " Philosophical ...
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