The principles of the chrono-thermal system of medicine, containing intr. and notes by W. Turner1845 |
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Página ii
... nature ; -both , nevertheless , are , as you see , on the way to their long home - the first because he took all the physic ordered him - the second because he would take none at all . " " How very embarrass- ing ! " said Leandro ...
... nature ; -both , nevertheless , are , as you see , on the way to their long home - the first because he took all the physic ordered him - the second because he would take none at all . " " How very embarrass- ing ! " said Leandro ...
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... nature of the book . Dr. Dickson's views of disease are simple and easily understood . " More than twenty- three centuries , " he says , " have elapsed since Hippocrates distinctly announced the Unity of Morbid Action — omnium morborum ...
... nature of the book . Dr. Dickson's views of disease are simple and easily understood . " More than twenty- three centuries , " he says , " have elapsed since Hippocrates distinctly announced the Unity of Morbid Action — omnium morborum ...
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... nature of the remedy ; and whether they like to be told of it or not , I claim to have either convinced or compelled the Profession materially to alter their practice . To say blood - letting is a bad thing is one thing , to prove it to ...
... nature of the remedy ; and whether they like to be told of it or not , I claim to have either convinced or compelled the Profession materially to alter their practice . To say blood - letting is a bad thing is one thing , to prove it to ...
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... nature of Ague , it will be best met by a practice in accordance with the proper principle of treatment of that distemper . To apply warmth , or administer cordials in the Cold stage ; in the Hot , to reduce the amount of temperature ...
... nature of Ague , it will be best met by a practice in accordance with the proper principle of treatment of that distemper . To apply warmth , or administer cordials in the Cold stage ; in the Hot , to reduce the amount of temperature ...
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... Nature the trouble of curing his fever , without once calling in the Baillie or Halford of his day to assist ! The misfortune is , this unbelieving spirit is not confined to the conti- nent . Locke , Smollett , Goldsmith , ( all three ...
... Nature the trouble of curing his fever , without once calling in the Baillie or Halford of his day to assist ! The misfortune is , this unbelieving spirit is not confined to the conti- nent . Locke , Smollett , Goldsmith , ( all three ...
Términos y frases comunes
action agent ague animal Apoplexy arsenic asthma atoms Bark become bled bleeding blood-letting body Brain called calomel cause cerebral Cholera chrono-thermal cold complaint constitutional consumption convulsions course cure death disease disorder doctor doctrine doses dropsy Dyspepsia effect emetic epilepsy equally Erysipelas eyes fact faint flatulence Gentlemen give Gout heart heat hydrocyanic acid Hypochondria inflammation influence instances Intermittent Fever kind lancet leech less ligature loss of blood lungs manner matter medicine ment mercury mind mode morbid motion nature never opium organ pain palsy paroxysm particular passion patient period person physic physician practice practitioners prescribed principle produced profession prussic acid purge quinine remedies remission remittent Rheumatism Scrofula Scurvy secretion shivering skin Small-pox spasm stethoscope stomach strychnia success suffered surgeon symptoms tell temperature termed thing tion tissue treated treatment truth tumour unity vomiting weak word
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Página 7 - For words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
Página 7 - Those whom their fame invites to the same studies, copy partly them, and partly nature, till the books of one age gain such authority, as to stand in the place of nature to another; and imitation, always deviating a little, becomes at last capricious and casual.
Página 107 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime 's by action dignified.
Página 156 - Philosophy, wisdom, and liberty, support each other; he, who will not reason, is a bigot ; he, who cannot, is a fool ; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
Página 65 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale; Opinion an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Página 76 - Observe the various operations Of food and drink in several nations. Was ever Tartar fierce or cruel Upon the strength of water-gruel ? But who shall stand his rage and force, If first he rides, then eats his horse ? Salads, and eggs, and lighter fare, Tune the Italian spark's guitar. And, if I take Dan Congreve right. Pudding and beef make Britons fight.
Página 65 - The imputation of novelty is a terrible charge amongst those who judge of men's heads, as they do of their perukes, by the fashion, and can allow none to be right but the received doctrines.
Página 137 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Página 49 - I justly formed this conclusion to myself, that whatever philosopher or projector can find out an art to solder and patch up the flaws and imperfections of nature, will deserve much better of mankind, and teach us a more useful science, than that so much in present esteem, of widening and exposing them (like him who held anatomy to be the ultimate end of physic...
Página 14 - 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.