The History and heroes of the art of medicineJ. Murray, 1861 - 491 pages |
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... thousand years hence upon the leguminous plants , attempt to account . scientifically for there once having existed a bean of enor- mous size , and give a learned refutation of all possible objections to its prodigious growth , and to ...
... thousand years hence upon the leguminous plants , attempt to account . scientifically for there once having existed a bean of enor- mous size , and give a learned refutation of all possible objections to its prodigious growth , and to ...
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... thousand years . At this stage of the history of medicine we encounter what the geologists would term a fault . There is an abrupt termination of the Homeric era , and all trace of medicine is lost for several hundred years . " Strange ...
... thousand years . At this stage of the history of medicine we encounter what the geologists would term a fault . There is an abrupt termination of the Homeric era , and all trace of medicine is lost for several hundred years . " Strange ...
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... thousand discoveries connected with navigation had to be made , and Time was one of the elements required for the solution of such pro- blems . The vagueness , then , of the Greek physics , was the necessary result of the period in ...
... thousand discoveries connected with navigation had to be made , and Time was one of the elements required for the solution of such pro- blems . The vagueness , then , of the Greek physics , was the necessary result of the period in ...
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... thousand casualties , and subject to a death by which this very consciousness appears to be annihilated - the mystery of the union of Life and Mortality . There still remain for our consideration , the services of Hippocrates in ...
... thousand casualties , and subject to a death by which this very consciousness appears to be annihilated - the mystery of the union of Life and Mortality . There still remain for our consideration , the services of Hippocrates in ...
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... thousand years ago 12 " 1 We need say no more of this first treatise of Hippocrates than that it is so pre - eminently judicious , " that , " in the words of Dr. Adams , " at the present day it would be diffi- cult to detect our author ...
... thousand years ago 12 " 1 We need say no more of this first treatise of Hippocrates than that it is so pre - eminently judicious , " that , " in the words of Dr. Adams , " at the present day it would be diffi- cult to detect our author ...
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Page 54 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Page 417 - More Worlds than One. The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian.
Page 177 - THUS far I have spoken of the passage of the blood from the veins into the arteries, and of the manner in which it is transmitted and distributed by the action of the heart...
Page 85 - When he saw Jesus, he cried out, and fell down before him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
Page 431 - LIVINGSTONE'S SOUTH AFRICA. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa ; including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loando on the West Coast ; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean.
Page 434 - History of Latin Christianity ; including that of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicholas V.
Page 439 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Page 303 - In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world. There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe, And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.
Page 25 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret.
Page 25 - I will follow that system of regimen which according to my ability and judgment I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel ; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.