Medical essays 1842-1882Houghton Mifflin, 1892 |
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Page vii
... statement , that medicines are more sparingly used in physicians ' families than in most others , ad- mits of a very natural explanation , without putting a harsh construction upon it , which it was not intended to admit . Outside ...
... statement , that medicines are more sparingly used in physicians ' families than in most others , ad- mits of a very natural explanation , without putting a harsh construction upon it , which it was not intended to admit . Outside ...
Page xv
... statement of my belief that if a ship - load of miscella- neous drugs , with certain very important exceptions , drugs , many of which were then often given need- lessly and in excess , as then used " could be sunk to the bottom of the ...
... statement of my belief that if a ship - load of miscella- neous drugs , with certain very important exceptions , drugs , many of which were then often given need- lessly and in excess , as then used " could be sunk to the bottom of the ...
Page 1
... statement of cases in which its practitioners are 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 ...
... statement of cases in which its practitioners are 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 ...
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... statement of the advocates and contemporaries of this remedy , none ever failed of receiving benefit unless their little faith and credulity starved their merits . Some are said to have been cured immediately on the very touch , others ...
... statement of the advocates and contemporaries of this remedy , none ever failed of receiving benefit unless their little faith and credulity starved their merits . Some are said to have been cured immediately on the very touch , others ...
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... statements of the advocates of the ointment , he says , " Lastly , it will cure a beast as well as a man , which I like best of all the rest , because it subjecteth the matter to an easy trial . " It is worth remembering , that more ...
... statements of the advocates of the ointment , he says , " Lastly , it will cure a beast as well as a man , which I like best of all the rest , because it subjecteth the matter to an easy trial . " It is worth remembering , that more ...
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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 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...