Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, Volume 2

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E.B. Smith & Company, 1867

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Page 31 - Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further, from the seduction of females, or males, of freemen and slaves.
Page 31 - ... my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons and those of my teachers and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine but to none others.
Page 31 - ... the same footing as my own brothers and to teach them this art if they shall wish to learn it without fee or stipulation and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction I will impart a knowledge of the art to my own sons and those of my teachers...
Page 490 - Physiology of Man. Designed to represent the existing state of Physiological Science as applied to the Functions of the Human Body.
Page 31 - I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel ; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion.
Page 484 - I have no hesitation in saying that, from a philosophical point of view, I do not believe in the actual existence of atoms, taking the word in its literal signification of indivisible particles of matter...
Page 31 - 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.
Page 485 - ... belief that chemical atoms exist, provided the term be understood to denote those particles of matter which undergo no further division in chemical metamorphoses. Should the progress of science lead to a theory of the constitution of chemical atoms — important as such a knowledge might be for the general philosophy of matter — it would make but little alteration in chemistry itself. The chemical...
Page 18 - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Page 94 - The modus operandi is as follows : — Put into a twelve ounce bottle one ounce of chloroform and about three drachms of ether ; to the mixture add the same volume of the syrup to be employed ; observe carefully the disposition of the fluids ; the chloroform and ether will probably sink, then add guttatim more ether until the two liquids, on being shaken together, appear indifferent as to their position in the system ; finally fill up the bottle with the syrup, and shake well for a minute or two....

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