... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes ...: Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton, Mifflin, 1892 |
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... thought it best to leave it out , trusting that the stray copies to be met with in musty book - shops would sufficiently supply the not very extensive or urgent demand for a paper al- most half a century old . Some of these papers ...
... thought it best to leave it out , trusting that the stray copies to be met with in musty book - shops would sufficiently supply the not very extensive or urgent demand for a paper al- most half a century old . Some of these papers ...
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... thought to have effected wonderful cures . The main object of the first of these Lec- tures is to show , by abundant facts , that such statements , made by persons unacquainted with the fluctuations of disease and the fallacies of ...
... thought to have effected wonderful cures . The main object of the first of these Lec- tures is to show , by abundant facts , that such statements , made by persons unacquainted with the fluctuations of disease and the fallacies of ...
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... thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon , than of relief of their bodily infirmities , from making too many calls , as they some- times attempted to do . " According to the statement of the advocates and ...
... thought more of the golden angel hung round the neck by a white ribbon , than of relief of their bodily infirmities , from making too many calls , as they some- times attempted to do . " According to the statement of the advocates and ...
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... thought endowed with healing powers like those of ancient royalty , and who is accustomed one day in every week to strike for the evil . ― I remember that one of my schoolmates told me , when a boy , of a seventh son of a seventh son ...
... thought endowed with healing powers like those of ancient royalty , and who is accustomed one day in every week to strike for the evil . ― I remember that one of my schoolmates told me , when a boy , of a seventh son of a seventh son ...
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... thought it looked like a provision for an excuse in case of failure , by laying the fault to the omission of some of these circumstances . But he likes well that " they do not observe the confect- ing of the Ointment under any certain ...
... thought it looked like a provision for an excuse in case of failure , by laying the fault to the omission of some of these circumstances . But he likes well that " they do not observe the confect- ing of the Ointment under any certain ...
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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.
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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.
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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,...
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...