The Philosophy of the Bath: Or, Air and Water in Health and Disease ...Simpkin, Marshall, 1868 - 465 pages |
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... reason for " the cold and passive indifference " of Dublin practitioners to the Bath - Two cases illustrative of Drug and Hydropathic practice - Medicated and Mineral Baths 332 340 CHAPTER XX . Hydropathy in Disease - Illustrative cases ...
... reason for " the cold and passive indifference " of Dublin practitioners to the Bath - Two cases illustrative of Drug and Hydropathic practice - Medicated and Mineral Baths 332 340 CHAPTER XX . Hydropathy in Disease - Illustrative cases ...
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... reason , whatever established opinion ruled among them , no matter what superstitions or corruptions that opinion involved and sustained . A devotion to ignorant credulities and irrational preconceptions , with an intolerance of any ...
... reason , whatever established opinion ruled among them , no matter what superstitions or corruptions that opinion involved and sustained . A devotion to ignorant credulities and irrational preconceptions , with an intolerance of any ...
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... reason why so many fatal mistakes are constantly occurring in practice - misjudging effects for causes , and treating symptoms only , instead of com- prehending the true source of abnormal changes , is , that a lamentable ignorance of ...
... reason why so many fatal mistakes are constantly occurring in practice - misjudging effects for causes , and treating symptoms only , instead of com- prehending the true source of abnormal changes , is , that a lamentable ignorance of ...
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... reason , and theories not only useless , but dangerous . " In even more emphatic terms an esteemed author , Dr. Mason Good , wrote " The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon , and the effects of our medicines on the human system in ...
... reason , and theories not only useless , but dangerous . " In even more emphatic terms an esteemed author , Dr. Mason Good , wrote " The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon , and the effects of our medicines on the human system in ...
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... reason logically . But if their educational acquirements would not qualify them to stand on the same plat- form with pupil - teachers in the village schools of Scotland , as Dr. Alexander Wood affirmed , or enable them to pass an exam ...
... reason logically . But if their educational acquirements would not qualify them to stand on the same plat- form with pupil - teachers in the village schools of Scotland , as Dr. Alexander Wood affirmed , or enable them to pass an exam ...
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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.