The History and Heroes of the Art of Medicine, Volume 1J. Murray, 1861 - 491 pages |
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... Writings against it - Cromwell's last Illness - Richard Talbot -- Sydenham - His Birth - place - His Military and Medical Career - His Writings- His rela- tion to Hippocrates - His imitation of Nature - Treatment of Pleurisy- Rheumatism ...
... Writings against it - Cromwell's last Illness - Richard Talbot -- Sydenham - His Birth - place - His Military and Medical Career - His Writings- His rela- tion to Hippocrates - His imitation of Nature - Treatment of Pleurisy- Rheumatism ...
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... writing two 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 ...
... writing two 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 ...
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... writings of some of the most justly venerated Fathers of the Church who lived five hundred years later than Hippocrates . " It is demons , " says Origen , " which produce famine , unfruit- fulness , corruptions of the air , and ...
... writings of some of the most justly venerated Fathers of the Church who lived five hundred years later than Hippocrates . " It is demons , " says Origen , " which produce famine , unfruit- fulness , corruptions of the air , and ...
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... writings are characterized by wonderful modesty , and his claims to credit invariably rest upon appeals to the reason , and never either to the passions , or to respect for blind authority Indeed , the most striking feature of this ...
... writings are characterized by wonderful modesty , and his claims to credit invariably rest upon appeals to the reason , and never either to the passions , or to respect for blind authority Indeed , the most striking feature of this ...
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... writings and displayed in his life . " I swear by the physician , Apollo , " so runs the vow which he exacted from the aspirant to the ministry of the temple over which he presided— " and Æsculapius , and Hygæa , and Panacea , that ...
... writings and displayed in his life . " I swear by the physician , Apollo , " so runs the vow which he exacted from the aspirant to the ministry of the temple over which he presided— " and Æsculapius , and Hygæa , and Panacea , that ...
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