The philosophy of the bath; or, Air and water in health and disease1873 |
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... suffering , and the increase of health and happiness , leads me to dedicate to you this humble effort to direct public attention , in the words of Sir John Forbes , to " the great value and importance of what may be termed the ...
... suffering , and the increase of health and happiness , leads me to dedicate to you this humble effort to direct public attention , in the words of Sir John Forbes , to " the great value and importance of what may be termed the ...
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... suffering from the torments of disease , and the intellect is ob- scured by apprehensions of fatal consequences , and hence the remarkable success which has attended empiricism , even among the best educated , in all ages . It would be ...
... suffering from the torments of disease , and the intellect is ob- scured by apprehensions of fatal consequences , and hence the remarkable success which has attended empiricism , even among the best educated , in all ages . It would be ...
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... suffering . All mere " art " can do , at best , though sustained by the most profound medical knowledge , is to remove foreign elements that interfere with normal action , and supply natural aids that may be wanting , and thus assist to ...
... suffering . All mere " art " can do , at best , though sustained by the most profound medical knowledge , is to remove foreign elements that interfere with normal action , and supply natural aids that may be wanting , and thus assist to ...
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... , aggravate the disease * When this was published , Feb. 7 , 1863 , the Medical Times was not incorporated , as it now is , with the Medical Gazette . and suffering , is too clear to need any illustration ON THE MEDICAL PROFESSION . 15.
... , aggravate the disease * When this was published , Feb. 7 , 1863 , the Medical Times was not incorporated , as it now is , with the Medical Gazette . and suffering , is too clear to need any illustration ON THE MEDICAL PROFESSION . 15.
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Durham Dunlop. and suffering , is too clear to need any illustration . " Even the Lancet has had its faith shaken in " Physic as a science . " " The progress of true medical science has greatly qualified our estimate of the value of mere ...
Durham Dunlop. and suffering , is too clear to need any illustration . " Even the Lancet has had its faith shaken in " Physic as a science . " " The progress of true medical science has greatly qualified our estimate of the value of mere ...
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Side 58 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Side 439 - 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.
Side 193 - 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.
Side 205 - 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.
Side 439 - 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.
Side 191 - 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.
Side 28 - 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.
Side 439 - 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.
Side 126 - 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.
Side 255 - ... 12. To make every effort not merely to destroy the prevalent system of giving a vast quantity and variety of unnecessary and useless drugs, (to say the least of them,) but to encourage extreme simplicity in the prescription of medicines that seem to be requisite. Our system is here greatly and radically wrong.