The Philosophy of the Bath: Or, Air and Water in Health and Disease ...Simpkin, Marshall, 1868 - 465 pages |
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Page iii
... knowledge of the Bath than generally prevails . It was found , however , that , to do anything like justice to the subject , considerable additions were required , which in- volved the re - casting of the whole matter ; and thus , what ...
... knowledge of the Bath than generally prevails . It was found , however , that , to do anything like justice to the subject , considerable additions were required , which in- volved the re - casting of the whole matter ; and thus , what ...
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... Knowledge - Its constituent parts , Anatomy , Physiology , Pathology , Hygiene , and Therapeutics - Distinction between Medicine as a Science , and the mere Art of Physic - Opinions of Medical authorities thereon SECTION III . Popular ...
... Knowledge - Its constituent parts , Anatomy , Physiology , Pathology , Hygiene , and Therapeutics - Distinction between Medicine as a Science , and the mere Art of Physic - Opinions of Medical authorities thereon SECTION III . Popular ...
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... Knowledge of the Bath carried to Britain - Decline and Destruction of the Bath in Rome and Western Europe - Is preserved in Asia , Africa , & c . -Descriptions of the Baths of the Russians , Fins , Egyptians , Intertropical Africans ...
... Knowledge of the Bath carried to Britain - Decline and Destruction of the Bath in Rome and Western Europe - Is preserved in Asia , Africa , & c . -Descriptions of the Baths of the Russians , Fins , Egyptians , Intertropical Africans ...
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... knowledge open to both - The difference in the use made of them - Physic practice not based on the truths disclosed by Phy- siology and Pathology — Those truths perverted to sustain old theories - Errors in Practice the result of Errors ...
... knowledge open to both - The difference in the use made of them - Physic practice not based on the truths disclosed by Phy- siology and Pathology — Those truths perverted to sustain old theories - Errors in Practice the result of Errors ...
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... Knowledge is power , " and he who comprehends how " fear- fully and wonderfully " he is made - how admirably his organ- ism is designed to fulfil its purposes , but how necessarily a breach of the laws which govern it must be followed ...
... Knowledge is power , " and he who comprehends how " fear- fully and wonderfully " he is made - how admirably his organ- ism is designed to fulfil its purposes , but how necessarily a breach of the laws which govern it must be followed ...
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action æther affusion agent ancient animal atmosphere Barter become blood body calomel cause cholera cold bathing cold water condition consequently considered constitution credulous curative cure death derangements disease doctor Dominic Corrigan Drug Medication Drug School Dublin effects eminent empiricism employed enlightened Erasmus Wilson established exercise experience fact fever followed functions habits heat Hence Hippocrates Hot-Air Bath human Hydropathic Hygiene ignorance imperfect influence knowledge labour lungs matter means medical practitioners medical profession medicine ment Mercury merits mind mode natural never Nosologists Nutritive observes opinion organism patients perfect persons perspiration Physic physician Physiology poisonous possess prejudices present principles produced profes professional quackery rational remedies respecting result Romans says Dr scientific scrofula Sir John Forbes skin surface Surgeon sweat symptoms Temazcalli temperature theories therapeutic Therma tion treatment of disease truth Turkish Bath United Kingdom vapour virtues vital warm whole
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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.