... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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Page v
... believe . Self - love leads us to overrate the numbers of our negative constituency . The larger portion of my limited circle of readers must be quite indifferent to , if not ignorant of , the adverse opinions which have been expressed ...
... believe . Self - love leads us to overrate the numbers of our negative constituency . The larger portion of my limited circle of readers must be quite indifferent to , if not ignorant of , the adverse opinions which have been expressed ...
Page viii
... believe our weak- ness lies . Vast as are the advances of our Science and Art , may it not possibly prove on examination that we retain other old barbarisms beside the use of the astrological sign of Jupiter , with which we en- deavor ...
... believe our weak- ness lies . Vast as are the advances of our Science and Art , may it not possibly prove on examination that we retain other old barbarisms beside the use of the astrological sign of Jupiter , with which we en- deavor ...
Page xvi
... believe . I cannot doubt that it has saved the lives of many young mothers by calling attention to the existence and prop- agation of " Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence , " and laying down rules for taking the necessary pre ...
... believe . I cannot doubt that it has saved the lives of many young mothers by calling attention to the existence and prop- agation of " Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence , " and laying down rules for taking the necessary pre ...
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... believe it . " His remarks upon the asserted facts respecting it show a mixture of wise suspicion and partial belief . He does not like the precise directions given as to the circumstances under which the animals from which some of the ...
... believe it . " His remarks upon the asserted facts respecting it show a mixture of wise suspicion and partial belief . He does not like the precise directions given as to the circumstances under which the animals from which some of the ...
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... believe , never gave them a fair trial , proba- bly never used them in more than one case , and that perhaps a case in which the Tractors had never been recommended as serviceable . " " Purchasers of the Tractors , " said one of their ...
... believe , never gave them a fair trial , proba- bly never used them in more than one case , and that perhaps a case in which the Tractors had never been recommended as serviceable . " " Purchasers of the Tractors , " said one of their ...
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Page 377 - 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.
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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 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 103 - I ARRIVED AT THAT CERTAINTY IN THE MATTER THAT I COULD VENTURE TO FORETELL WHAT WOMEN WOULD BE AFFECTED WITH THE DISEASE, UPON HEARING BY WHAT MIDWIFE THEY WERE TO BE DELIVERED, OR BY WHAT NURSE THEY WERE TO BE ATTENDED, DURING THEIR LYING-IN: AND ALMOST IN EVERY INSTANCE MY PREDICTION WAS VERIFIED.
Page 434 - I remember calling the Voltaire of pelvic literature, — a sceptic 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.
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,...
Page 263 - 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...