The History and Heroes of the Art of Medicine, Volume 1J. Murray, 1861 - 491 pages |
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... task which , for its due execution , demands an amount of leisure at the disposal of few who cultivate Medicine as a profession . In the mean time this less ambitious attempt may serve as a pioneer , and by directing.
... task which , for its due execution , demands an amount of leisure at the disposal of few who cultivate Medicine as a profession . In the mean time this less ambitious attempt may serve as a pioneer , and by directing.
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... less revolting to reason to ascribe to Egyptian thought the parentage of Grecian science , than it is to taste to imagine such a figure as the bright , airy , and curvilinear Apollo to have been born and bred in the land of pyramids and ...
... less revolting to reason to ascribe to Egyptian thought the parentage of Grecian science , than it is to taste to imagine such a figure as the bright , airy , and curvilinear Apollo to have been born and bred in the land of pyramids and ...
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... less have raised some such preliminary questions as the following : -Is there any just conception of man's nobility . that can in any degree , or at any point , clash with the proper exercise of an art which we honour the great gods ...
... less have raised some such preliminary questions as the following : -Is there any just conception of man's nobility . that can in any degree , or at any point , clash with the proper exercise of an art which we honour the great gods ...
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... less applicable to the modern Water - cure than to the method of Herodicus - when he observes , that this way of going on may do very well for rich people , who can afford to spend their life in taking care of it ; but that when a mason ...
... less applicable to the modern Water - cure than to the method of Herodicus - when he observes , that this way of going on may do very well for rich people , who can afford to spend their life in taking care of it ; but that when a mason ...
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... his ethics ? we are met at once by a difficulty . For the Aristotleian word ux does not exactly correspond with our word Soul . 1 Grant's Aristotle , p . 236 . It implies both more and less . More , as 32 [ CHAP . II . HIPPOCRATES .
... his ethics ? we are met at once by a difficulty . For the Aristotleian word ux does not exactly correspond with our word Soul . 1 Grant's Aristotle , p . 236 . It implies both more and less . More , as 32 [ CHAP . II . HIPPOCRATES .
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