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... friend or a foe to try to point them out to our brethren when asked to address them , and is the speaker to subdue the constitutional habit of his style to a given standard , under penalty of giving offence to a grave assembly ? was ...
... friend or a foe to try to point them out to our brethren when asked to address them , and is the speaker to subdue the constitutional habit of his style to a given standard , under penalty of giving offence to a grave assembly ? was ...
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... friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint , that he " Had better try Homœopathy , are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding , that " at any rate it can do no harm . " This may or may not be true as regards ...
... friends who suggest to a person suffering from a tedious complaint , that he " Had better try Homœopathy , are apt to enforce their suggestion by adding , that " at any rate it can do no harm . " This may or may not be true as regards ...
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... friends who were fighting a duel , submitted himself to a trial of the Sympathetic Powder . Four days after he received his wounds , Sir Kenelm dipped one of Mr. Howell's garters in a solution of the Powder , and immediately , it is ...
... friends who were fighting a duel , submitted himself to a trial of the Sympathetic Powder . Four days after he received his wounds , Sir Kenelm dipped one of Mr. Howell's garters in a solution of the Powder , and immediately , it is ...
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... friend of hers , and a strong believer in Per- kinism , was very anxious to try the effects of trac- toration upon this unfortunate blemish . The patient consented ; the lady " produced the instruments , and , after drawing them four or ...
... friend of hers , and a strong believer in Per- kinism , was very anxious to try the effects of trac- toration upon this unfortunate blemish . The patient consented ; the lady " produced the instruments , and , after drawing them four or ...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes. eing a hydraulic machine , which he and his Vermont friends regarded as a very important invention . He found , however , that the machine was already in com- mon use in that metropolis . A brother Yankee , then in ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes. eing a hydraulic machine , which he and his Vermont friends regarded as a very important invention . He found , however , that the machine was already in com- mon use in that metropolis . A brother Yankee , then in ...
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Page 381 - 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.
Page 22 - why won't you listen to reason? I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have bought them. The silver rims alone will sell for double the money.
Page 410 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
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 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 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 11 - So much understanding, so much knowledge, so much innocence, and such humility, I did not think had been the portion of any but angels, till I saw this gentleman...
Page 131 - The practical point to be illustrated is the following : The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.
Page 437 - 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 265 - 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...