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Page vi
... sick persons was considered as equivalent to condemning the use of these substances . The only important inference the writer has been able to draw from the greater number of the refutations of his opinions which have been kindly sent ...
... sick persons was considered as equivalent to condemning the use of these substances . The only important inference the writer has been able to draw from the greater number of the refutations of his opinions which have been kindly sent ...
Page x
... sick people should feed on poisons , 1 against which a part of the Discourse at the beginning of this volume is directed . The infinitesimal globules have not become a curi- osity as yet , like Perkins's Tractors . But time is a If very ...
... sick people should feed on poisons , 1 against which a part of the Discourse at the beginning of this volume is directed . The infinitesimal globules have not become a curi- osity as yet , like Perkins's Tractors . But time is a If very ...
Page 44
... sick lead me within the last few years to prefer giving only two shakes to medicinal liquids , whereas I for- merly used to give ten . " The process of dilution is carried on in the same way as the attenuation of the powder was done ...
... sick lead me within the last few years to prefer giving only two shakes to medicinal liquids , whereas I for- merly used to give ten . " The process of dilution is carried on in the same way as the attenuation of the powder was done ...
Page 57
... sick and slighted maiden , to nothing more nor less than the insignificant , unseemly , and al- most unmentionable ITCH , does it not seem as if the very soil upon which we stand were dissolving into chaos , over the earthquake ...
... sick and slighted maiden , to nothing more nor less than the insignificant , unseemly , and al- most unmentionable ITCH , does it not seem as if the very soil upon which we stand were dissolving into chaos , over the earthquake ...
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... sick from the others . It is true that marks have been added in the edition employed here , which serve to distinguish them ; but what are we to think of a standard practical author on Materia Med- ica , who at one time omits to ...
... sick from the others . It is true that marks have been added in the edition employed here , which serve to distinguish them ; but what are we to think of a standard practical author on Materia Med- ica , who at one time omits to ...
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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.