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Page vii
... treatment , has been owing to the fact that it showed the movements of disease to be far more independent of the kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that ...
... treatment , has been owing to the fact that it showed the movements of disease to be far more independent of the kind of practice pursued than was agreeable to the pride of those whose self - confidence it abated . The statement , that ...
Page ix
... treated with con- tempt . Infinitesimal doses are replaced by full ones whenever the fancy - practitioner chooses . Good Ho- mœopathic reasons can be found for employing any- thing that anybody wants to employ . Homœopathy is now merely ...
... treated with con- tempt . Infinitesimal doses are replaced by full ones whenever the fancy - practitioner chooses . Good Ho- mœopathic reasons can be found for employing any- thing that anybody wants to employ . Homœopathy is now merely ...
Page x
... treating everything by specifics , the old barbarous notion that 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 ...
... treating everything by specifics , the old barbarous notion that 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 ...
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... treatment were frequently infants . 3d . That sometimes silver was given , and sometimes nothing , yet the patients were cured . A superstition resembling this probably exists at the present time in some ignorant districts of Eng- land ...
... treatment were frequently infants . 3d . That sometimes silver was given , and sometimes nothing , yet the patients were cured . A superstition resembling this probably exists at the present time in some ignorant districts of Eng- land ...
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... that of Perkinism , that the former is most frequently advocated by the same class of per- sons who were conspicuous in behalf of the latter , and treated with contempt or opposed by the same kind of 16 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
... that of Perkinism , that the former is most frequently advocated by the same class of per- sons who were conspicuous in behalf of the latter , and treated with contempt or opposed by the same kind of 16 MEDICAL ESSAYS .
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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.