Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton Mifflin, 1892 |
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Page vii
... give medicine , or what seems to be medicine , when among those who have more confidence in drugging than his own family commonly has , the learned Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word ...
... give medicine , or what seems to be medicine , when among those who have more confidence in drugging than his own family commonly has , the learned Professor Dunglison is hereby requested to apologize for his definition of the word ...
Page ix
... give the world to have them true to their promises . Homœopathy has not died out so rapidly as Tracto- ration . Perhaps it was well that it should not , for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Na- ture which was needed ...
... give the world to have them true to their promises . Homœopathy has not died out so rapidly as Tracto- ration . Perhaps it was well that it should not , for it has taught us a lesson of the healing faculty of Na- ture which was needed ...
Page xvi
... give his patient draughts and boluses for which he could charge him , he was in a pitiable position and too likely to persuade himself that his drugs were useful to his pa- tient because they were profitable to him . This prac- tice has ...
... give his patient draughts and boluses for which he could charge him , he was in a pitiable position and too likely to persuade himself that his drugs were useful to his pa- tient because they were profitable to him . This prac- tice has ...
Page 12
... give a short account of this Essay , merely stating that as all the supposed virtues of Tar Water , made public in successive edi- tions of his treatise by so illustrious an author , have not saved it from neglect and disgrace , it may ...
... give a short account of this Essay , merely stating that as all the supposed virtues of Tar Water , made public in successive edi- tions of his treatise by so illustrious an author , have not saved it from neglect and disgrace , it may ...
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... give charitable relief to the ladies , who often want it more than the parish poor ; being many of them never able to make a good meal , and sitting pale , puny , and forbidden , like ghosts , at their own table , victims of vapors and ...
... give charitable relief to the ladies , who often want it more than the parish poor ; being many of them never able to make a good meal , and sitting pale , puny , and forbidden , like ghosts , at their own table , victims of vapors and ...
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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 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 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...