A Descriptive and Tabular Report of the Medical and Surgical Cases Treated in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital: From Oct. 16, 1840, to June 1, 1842, with Remarks Upon Its Present Condition and Future Prospects, Illustrated by Tables of Expenditure, &c., and Preceded by an Essay on the Origin and Progress of Hospitals for the Sick, from the Earliest Times

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Kentish Observer, 1842 - 125 páginas
 

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Página 48 - Book, so far forth that common Artificers, as Smiths, Weavers, and Women, boldly and accustomably take upon them great cures and things of great difficulty ; in the which they partly use sorcery and witchcraft...
Página 10 - Parrhasius, a painter of Athens, amongst those Olynthian captives Philip of Macedon brought home to sell, bought one very old man ; and, when he had him at his house, put him to death with extreme torture and torment, the better by his example to express the pains and passions of his Prometheus, whom he was then about to paint.
Página 63 - Whereas gifts or alienations of lands, tenements, or hereditaments in mortmain are prohibited or restrained by Magna Charta, and divers other wholesome laws, as prejudicial to and against the common utility ; nevertheless, this public mischief has of late greatly increased by many large and improvident alienations or dispositions made by languishing or dying persons, or by other persons to uses called charitable uses, to take place after their deaths, to the disherison of their lawful heirs...
Página 47 - An act for the appointing of physicians and surgeons," — after reciting that " forasmuch as the science and cunning of physic and surgery (to the perfect knowledge whereof be requisite both great learning and ripe experience) is daily within this realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons, of whom the greater part have no manner of insight in the same, nor in any other kind of learning...
Página 48 - That no person within the city of London, nor within seven miles of the same, take upon him to exercise and occupy as a Physician or Surgeon, except he be first examined, approved, and admitted by the Bishop of London, or by the Dean of St. Paul's, for the time being, calling to him or them four Doctors of Physic, and for Surgery, other expert persons in that faculty...
Página 53 - He hath given food to the hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothes to the naked.
Página 40 - His own order suffers most severely under his hand, but he was too good a satirist to confine his views to one class of mankind, and in the introduction to the poem he represents himself as contemplating a vast and mixed multitude, composed of men of every age and degree : — " And as I beheld on hey, est on to the sonne, I saw a towr on a toft, ryaly emaked, A depe dale be nethe, a donjoun therein, With depe dykys and dyrke, and dredful of sygth ; A fayr feld...
Página 63 - An Act to redress the Misemployment of Lands, Goods, and Stocks of Money heretofore given to Charitable Uses.
Página 54 - ... valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep ! The river glideth at its own sweet will, Dear God, the very houses seem asleep, And all that mighty heart is lying still.
Página 40 - The state of the land, and hef it wryten, What manere of folk first it wan, And of what kynde it first began ; And gude it is for many thynges For to here the dedis of kynges, Whilk were foles, and whilk were wyse, And whilk of tham...

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