Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton Mifflin, 1892 |
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... referred to . This was entitled , " Terri- ble Tractoration !! A Poetical Petition against Gal- vanizing Trumpery and the Perkinistic Institution . Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians , by Christopher Caustic ...
... referred to . This was entitled , " Terri- ble Tractoration !! A Poetical Petition against Gal- vanizing Trumpery and the Perkinistic Institution . Most respectfully addressed to the Royal College of Physicians , by Christopher Caustic ...
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... referred to as follows : " Those who have individually stated cases , or who have presented their names to the public as men who approved of this remedy , and acknowledged them- selves instrumental in circulating the Tractors , are ...
... referred to as follows : " Those who have individually stated cases , or who have presented their names to the public as men who approved of this remedy , and acknowledged them- selves instrumental in circulating the Tractors , are ...
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... referred as a warm defender of tractoration , and a bitter assailant of its enemies . The story tells itself in the biographical preface to his poem . He went to London with the view of introdu eing a hydraulic machine , which he and ...
... referred as a warm defender of tractoration , and a bitter assailant of its enemies . The story tells itself in the biographical preface to his poem . He went to London with the view of introdu eing a hydraulic machine , which he and ...
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... referred to . And first , it is there stated under the head of " Homœopathic Literature , " that " SEVEN HUNDRED Volumes have been issued from the press developing the peculiarities of the sys- tem , and many of them possessed of a ...
... referred to . And first , it is there stated under the head of " Homœopathic Literature , " that " SEVEN HUNDRED Volumes have been issued from the press developing the peculiarities of the sys- tem , and many of them possessed of a ...
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... referred to only to rebuke the selfish venders of secret remedies , among whom his early history obliges us re- luctantly to record Samuel Hahnemann . Those who speak of the great body of physicians as if they were united in a league to ...
... referred to only to rebuke the selfish venders of secret remedies , among whom his early history obliges us re- luctantly to record Samuel Hahnemann . Those who speak of the great body of physicians as if they were united in a league to ...
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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.
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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...