The principles of the chrono-thermal system of medicine, containing intr. and notes by W. Turner1845 |
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... never shone ; —she all but de- Thermal System - so called from Chronos , Time or Period ; and Thermà , Temperature or Heat . This I gave to the public in 1836. Then , for the first time , I announced the appalling fact , that up to that ...
... never shone ; —she all but de- Thermal System - so called from Chronos , Time or Period ; and Thermà , Temperature or Heat . This I gave to the public in 1836. Then , for the first time , I announced the appalling fact , that up to that ...
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... never was a continual disease - a continual tempest of the Human body ! How de- grading these piratical attempts to take my Bark , and throw its owner overboard ! They afford an index , however , to the present morale of the Profession ...
... never was a continual disease - a continual tempest of the Human body ! How de- grading these piratical attempts to take my Bark , and throw its owner overboard ! They afford an index , however , to the present morale of the Profession ...
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... never taken credit for being the first opponent of the Lancet . But one thing in regard to this matter I do claim credit for - I claim credit for being the first man who , by a strong array of facts , and some force of reasoning ...
... never taken credit for being the first opponent of the Lancet . But one thing in regard to this matter I do claim credit for - I claim credit for being the first man who , by a strong array of facts , and some force of reasoning ...
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... never- theless held his profession in contempt . On visiting London , he had an opportunity of being introduced to his equally celebrated countryman Baillie . Curious to know Gre- gory's opinion of the man who then swayed the medical ...
... never- theless held his profession in contempt . On visiting London , he had an opportunity of being introduced to his equally celebrated countryman Baillie . Curious to know Gre- gory's opinion of the man who then swayed the medical ...
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... never would have attempted it if she had foreseen the vexation , the persecution , and even the obloquy it brought upon her . The clamours raised against the practice , and of course against her , were beyond belief . The faculty all ...
... never would have attempted it if she had foreseen the vexation , the persecution , and even the obloquy it brought upon her . The clamours raised against the practice , and of course against her , were beyond belief . The faculty all ...
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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.