... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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... body in health and disease , would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners . To deny that some patients may have been actually benefited through the influence exerted upon their imaginations , would be to ...
... body in health and disease , would be judging very harshly the average capacity of ordinary practitioners . To deny that some patients may have been actually benefited through the influence exerted upon their imaginations , would be to ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. So long as the body is affected through the mind , no audacious device , even of the most manifestly dishonest character , can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. So long as the body is affected through the mind , no audacious device , even of the most manifestly dishonest character , can fail of producing occasional good to those who yield it an implicit or even a partial ...
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... bodies usually supposed to take an interest in scientific discoveries , or only of individuals whose claims to distinction were founded upon their position in society , or political station , or literary em- inence ; whether the ...
... bodies usually supposed to take an interest in scientific discoveries , or only of individuals whose claims to distinction were founded upon their position in society , or political station , or literary em- inence ; whether the ...
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... body which for ages has constituted the best tribunal to which Britain can appeal in questions of science , accepted Mr. Perkins's Tractors and the book written about them , passed the customary vote of thanks , and never thought of ...
... body which for ages has constituted the best tribunal to which Britain can appeal in questions of science , accepted Mr. Perkins's Tractors and the book written about them , passed the customary vote of thanks , and never thought of ...
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... body and on horses , etc. " But the progress of facts in Great Brit- ain did not stop here . Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials , as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical nov ...
... body and on horses , etc. " But the progress of facts in Great Brit- ain did not stop here . Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials , as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical nov ...
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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...