The History and Heroes of the Art of Medicine, Volume 1J. Murray, 1861 - 491 pages |
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... Doctrine of Irritability - New Definition of Life - Cullen - His Birth - place and Early Education - Professor at ... Doctrines - Brunonian Riots at Göttingen - Brown's Career- Account of His System - Excitability , Exhausted and ...
... Doctrine of Irritability - New Definition of Life - Cullen - His Birth - place and Early Education - Professor at ... Doctrines - Brunonian Riots at Göttingen - Brown's Career- Account of His System - Excitability , Exhausted and ...
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... Doctrine - Death of his first Wife - Second Marriage - Life in Paris - Death - Diffusion of Homoeopathy - In Ger- many - Discussed in Baden Parliament - In Austria - In Naples - Brought to England by Dr. Quin - Correspondence between ...
... Doctrine - Death of his first Wife - Second Marriage - Life in Paris - Death - Diffusion of Homoeopathy - In Ger- many - Discussed in Baden Parliament - In Austria - In Naples - Brought to England by Dr. Quin - Correspondence between ...
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... doctrines of Christianity con- verted the Greek mythology into a demonology . Hence the necessity of an entirely new source of nobility . The purely Christian view exalted every human being who accepted the Gospel of Christ into an heir ...
... doctrines of Christianity con- verted the Greek mythology into a demonology . Hence the necessity of an entirely new source of nobility . The purely Christian view exalted every human being who accepted the Gospel of Christ into an heir ...
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... doctrines held sway gene- rally on this subject with slight modifications — was what they called " the contraries ; " these were heat and cold , dryness and moisture . But these contraries could not reside in mere formless matter ...
... doctrines held sway gene- rally on this subject with slight modifications — was what they called " the contraries ; " these were heat and cold , dryness and moisture . But these contraries could not reside in mere formless matter ...
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... doctrine of the humours ; a doctrine which has , more than any other or all others put together , affected the development of medicine as a practical art . It is , as we see , of as purely hypothetical an origin as that of the four ...
... doctrine of the humours ; a doctrine which has , more than any other or all others put together , affected the development of medicine as a practical art . It is , as we see , of as purely hypothetical an origin as that of the four ...
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Page 56 - 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.
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