Medical Essays, 1842-1882 |
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... 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 ...
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... human nature , from which no profession is exempt , will lead him to take the most flattering view of its effects upon the patient ; his own sagacity and judgment being staked upon the success of the trial . The in- ventor of the ...
... human nature , from which no profession is exempt , will lead him to take the most flattering view of its effects upon the patient ; his own sagacity and judgment being staked upon the success of the trial . The in- ventor of the ...
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Page 408 - 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 20 - 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 31 - 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 9 - 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 129 - 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 263 - 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...
Page 101 - 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 118 - You see a man discharge a gun at another : you see the flash, you hear the report, you see the person fall a lifeless corpse ; and you infer, from all these circumstances, that there was a ball discharged from the gun, which entered his body and caused his death, because such is the usual and natural cause of such an effect. But you did not see the ball leave the gun, pass through the air, and enter the body of the slain ; and even testimony to the fact of killing is, therefore, only inferential,...
Page 135 - A practitioner opened the body of a woman who had died of puerperal fever, and continued to wear the same clothes. A lady whom he delivered a few days afterwards was attacked with and died of a similar disease; two more of his lying-in patients, in rapid succession, met with the same fate; struck by the thought, that he might have carried contagion in his clothes, he instantly changed them, and met with no more cases of the kind. * A woman in the country, who was employed as washerwoman and nurse,...
Page 201 - 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.