An Epitome of the History of Medicine: Based Upon a Course of Lectures Delivered in the University of Buffalo

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F. A. Davis Company, 1899 - 370 pages
 

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Page 349 - In that day shall there be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord.
Page 331 - The art of medicine is thus divided amongst them: each physician applies himself to one disease only, and not more. All places abound in physicians; some physicians are for the eyes, others for the head, others for the teeth, others for the parts about the belly, and others for internal disorders.
Page 290 - Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc., etc., etc.
Page 76 - Salerno's school, in conclave high, unites To counsel England's king and thus indites : If thou to health and vigor wouldst attain, Shun weighty cares — all anger deem profane, From heavy suppers and much wine abstain. Nor trivial count it, after pompous fare, To rise from table and to take the air. Shun idle, noonday slumber, nor delay The urgent calls of Nature to obey. These rules if thou wilt follow to the end, Thy life to greater length thou mayst extend.
Page 305 - A new era in tooth-pulling ! It did not hurt me as much as the prick of a pin ! It is the greatest discovery ever made ! " He at once began the manufacture and use of the gas, which became quite general in that locality.
Page 302 - To escape pain in surgical operations is a chimera which we are not permitted to look for in our time.
Page 21 - The best physician is the one who is able to establish a prognosis, penetrating and exposing first of all, at the bedside, the present, the past, and the future of his patients, and adding what they omit in their statements.
Page 49 - Christianity, as is shown by such passages as this one: he said that in the composition of certain medicaments the following words should be repeated in a low voice : " May the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob deign to bestow upon this medicament such and such virtues.
Page 278 - A Brief Rule To Guide the Common People of New England How to order themselves and theirs in the Small Pocks, or Measels.
Page 61 - Study carefully the antecedents of the man to whose care you propose to confide all you have most dear in this world, — that is, your life and the lives of your wife and children. If the man is dissipated, is given to frivolous pleasures, cultivates with too much zeal the arts foreign to his profession, still more if he be addicted to wine and debauchery, refrain from committing into such hands lives so precious.

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