Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton Mifflin, 1892 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 43
Page xiii
... human mind . Its influence for good or the contrary may be made a matter of calm investigation . I have studied it in the Essay before the reader , under the aspect of an extravagant and purely imaginative creation of its founder ...
... human mind . Its influence for good or the contrary may be made a matter of calm investigation . I have studied it in the Essay before the reader , under the aspect of an extravagant and purely imaginative creation of its founder ...
Page 1
... human 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 ...
... human 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 ...
Page 6
... human blood , and of moss from the skull of a thief hung in chains . Hildanus was a wise and learned man , one of the best surgeons of his time . He was fully aware that a part of the real secret of the Unguentum Armarium consisted in ...
... human blood , and of moss from the skull of a thief hung in chains . Hildanus was a wise and learned man , one of the best surgeons of his time . He was fully aware that a part of the real secret of the Unguentum Armarium consisted in ...
Page 15
... humanity , has been sleeping undisturbed in the grave of oblivion . Not a voice has , for this long period , been raised in its favor ; its noble and learned patrons , its public institutions , its eloquent advocates , its bril- liant ...
... humanity , has been sleeping undisturbed in the grave of oblivion . Not a voice has , for this long period , been raised in its favor ; its noble and learned patrons , its public institutions , its eloquent advocates , its bril- liant ...
Page 19
... humanity for a medical man , whose livelihood depends either on the sale of drugs , or on receiving a guinea for writing a prescription , which must relate to those drugs , to say to his patient , You had better purchase a set of ...
... humanity for a medical man , whose livelihood depends either on the sale of drugs , or on receiving a guinea for writing a prescription , which must relate to those drugs , to say to his patient , You had better purchase a set of ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Ambroise Paré anatomy attended authority believe body Boston Boston Athenæum called calomel cause century cinchona common contagion Cotton Mather course cure died disease doctrine doses doubt drugs effects England epilepsy erysipelas Essay evidence examination experience facts favor give Hahnemann hands healing Homœopathy honored Hospital hundred instance James Jackson John John Winthrop Journal knowledge known labor learned lecture less letter living look Massachusetts Medical Society matter medi medical profession medicine ment mentioned Midwifery mind nature never observation opathic opinion organs patient Perkinism persons physi physician Physiology poison prac practice practitioner Professor proved puerperal fever question referred remedies remember Samuel Hahnemann scientific sick small-pox Society speak statement student substances suppose surgeon symptoms taught teach thing thought tion Tractors treatment truth Veratrum viride Winthrop women words young
Popular passages
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...