... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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Page ix
... attending Lectures at the Massachusetts Medi- cal College at the present time . In America it has undoubtedly proved more popular and lucrative , yet how loose a hold it has on the public confidence is shown by the fact that , when a ...
... attending Lectures at the Massachusetts Medi- cal College at the present time . In America it has undoubtedly proved more popular and lucrative , yet how loose a hold it has on the public confidence is shown by the fact that , when a ...
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... attended by an extraordi- nary assistance of God , and some more then ordinary Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , vol . iii . p . 103 . a miracle : nor did their Faith deceive them in this 4 MEDICAL ESSAYS . 103.
... attended by an extraordi- nary assistance of God , and some more then ordinary Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , vol . iii . p . 103 . a miracle : nor did their Faith deceive them in this 4 MEDICAL ESSAYS . 103.
Page 39
... attended with the most positively inju- rious effects , that by it acute diseases are aggravated , and chronic diseases rendered incurable . It has at various times brought forward collections of figures having the air of statistical ...
... attended with the most positively inju- rious effects , that by it acute diseases are aggravated , and chronic diseases rendered incurable . It has at various times brought forward collections of figures having the air of statistical ...
Page 92
... attended , was included in these audacious claims ; but after the specimens I have given of the accuracy of the foreign correspondence of the " Homœopathic Examiner , " any further information I might obtain would seem so su- perfluous ...
... attended , was included in these audacious claims ; but after the specimens I have given of the accuracy of the foreign correspondence of the " Homœopathic Examiner , " any further information I might obtain would seem so su- perfluous ...
Page 104
... attended several women in confinement in the mean time , all of whom , as it was alleged , were attacked with puerperal fever . Whatever apprehensions and beliefs were enter- tained , it was plain that a fuller knowledge of the facts ...
... attended several women in confinement in the mean time , all of whom , as it was alleged , were attacked with puerperal fever . Whatever apprehensions and beliefs were enter- tained , it was plain that a fuller knowledge of the facts ...
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Page 135 - A practitioner opened the body of a woman who had died of puerperal fever, and continued to wear the same clothes. A lady whom he delivered a few days afterwards was attacked with and died of a similar disease ; two more of his lying-in patients, in rapid succession, met with the same fate ; struck by the thought, that he might have carried contagion in his clothes, he instantly changed them, and met with no more cases of the kind.* A woman in the country, who was employed as washerwoman and nurse,...
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