The Philosophy of the Bath: Or, Air and Water in Health and Disease ...Simpkin, Marshall, 1868 - 465 pages |
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... Doctors and Drugs became established institutions . They obtained a disas- trous pre - eminence - prospering on the ignorance and credulity of mankind . Content so to trade , they never dreamed of cul- tivating Medicine as a Science ...
... Doctors and Drugs became established institutions . They obtained a disas- trous pre - eminence - prospering on the ignorance and credulity of mankind . Content so to trade , they never dreamed of cul- tivating Medicine as a Science ...
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... Doctors are merely empirics when they are not charlatans ! In the same spirit of candour the Dublin Medical Journal said " Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art that we call medical science is no science at all , but a ...
... Doctors are merely empirics when they are not charlatans ! In the same spirit of candour the Dublin Medical Journal said " Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art that we call medical science is no science at all , but a ...
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... Doctor " is a name to conjure with - that " M.D. , " half the letters of the alphabet appended to a practitioner's name , has some mysterious signification , and betokens a wizard's power to charm away disease and restore health ! The ...
... Doctor " is a name to conjure with - that " M.D. , " half the letters of the alphabet appended to a practitioner's name , has some mysterious signification , and betokens a wizard's power to charm away disease and restore health ! The ...
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... Doctor or Bachelor of Medicine of the Queen's University of Ireland ; or a L.F.P. , or M.D. , Glasgow - A Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians , or Doctor of Medicine of the University of Glasgow ; or a M.D. , or M.B. - A Doctor or ...
... Doctor or Bachelor of Medicine of the Queen's University of Ireland ; or a L.F.P. , or M.D. , Glasgow - A Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians , or Doctor of Medicine of the University of Glasgow ; or a M.D. , or M.B. - A Doctor or ...
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... doctor knew , ' Twas but his own , suppressed till now , he found . " There is much more in this remarkable paper worthy of notice , but Sir John see - saws somewhat in delivering his ex- perience , under the deterrent consciousness ...
... doctor knew , ' Twas but his own , suppressed till now , he found . " There is much more in this remarkable paper worthy of notice , but Sir John see - saws somewhat in delivering his ex- perience , under the deterrent consciousness ...
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Page 201 - Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 187 - I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73£ feet.
Page 45 - Dalhousie's minute only amounts to denial of the existence of the sun by a blind man ; and there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Page 27 - Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds : Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower, The moping owl does to the Moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary reign.
Page 122 - Numidia; the perpetual stream of hot water was poured into the capacious basins through so many wide mouths of bright and massy silver; and the meanest Roman could purchase, with a small copper coin, the daily enjoyment of a scene of pomp and luxury which might excite the envy of the kings of Asia.
Page 9 - The science of medicine is founded on conjecture, and improved by murder.
Page 429 - 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. While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot.
Page 224 - Immediately a place Before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark, A lazar-house it seem'd, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.
Page 429 - 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.
Page 189 - In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; In God's, one single can its end produce; Yet serves to second too, some other use.