The History and heroes of the art of medicineJ. Murray, 1861 - 491 pages |
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... Body - Roughly Handled by Haller - Darwin and Whytt- Animal Spirits - Nervous Fluid - Theory of Stimulation - Hoffmann ; his Early Career - Theory of Spasms - Fuge Medicos et Medicamenta - Soul and Spirit Identical - Boerhaave - His ...
... Body - Roughly Handled by Haller - Darwin and Whytt- Animal Spirits - Nervous Fluid - Theory of Stimulation - Hoffmann ; his Early Career - Theory of Spasms - Fuge Medicos et Medicamenta - Soul and Spirit Identical - Boerhaave - His ...
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... body , and the body on it ? " likely to be wisely answered by Aristotle as they would now be by a Prime Minister of England or the President of the United States of America - the two most enlight- ened nations in the world , in their ...
... body , and the body on it ? " likely to be wisely answered by Aristotle as they would now be by a Prime Minister of England or the President of the United States of America - the two most enlight- ened nations in the world , in their ...
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... body and from material considerations . " The xn , ' says Aristotle , ' is to the body , as form is to matter , as the impression to the wax , as sight to the eye , it is the efficient , the final , and the formal cause of the body The ...
... body and from material considerations . " The xn , ' says Aristotle , ' is to the body , as form is to matter , as the impression to the wax , as sight to the eye , it is the efficient , the final , and the formal cause of the body The ...
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... body along with the pneuma , ' according to some Hippocratic treatises . According to the Stoics , " the soul is sensible , and is a spirit which is born with us ; consequently it is a body , and continues to exist after death . " " The ...
... body along with the pneuma , ' according to some Hippocratic treatises . According to the Stoics , " the soul is sensible , and is a spirit which is born with us ; consequently it is a body , and continues to exist after death . " " The ...
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... body . Out of the body it represents the perished tenement . It was right and natural for the great and unfortunate Raleigh to write : - " Go , soul ! the body's guest , Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the best , The Truth ...
... body . Out of the body it represents the perished tenement . It was right and natural for the great and unfortunate Raleigh to write : - " Go , soul ! the body's guest , Upon a thankless errand ; Fear not to touch the best , The Truth ...
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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.