The Reality and Certainty of Medicine

8/8/2016

not by the lamp of experience, but who, as has been said, bear about a dark lantern of theory, bright indeed … had supposed them to be. ‘Well, then,’ said the philosopher, ‘have the goodness to tell me what …, as appeared by the “log-books,” duly vouched. Insurance offices are said to have looked upon it with favor …

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The Duties, Trials, and Pleasures of the Medical Profession

8/8/2016

of the Medical Profession. Yes, we have duties to perform. I need not have said this to you, because all medical … it is said to possess some mysterious healing quality, unknown to anybody but the ignorant pretender …, vexatious; and they hurt us, as eels are hurt by being skinned alive, until, as the old woman said, “They …

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The Principles and Objects of the Massachusetts Medical Society

8/8/2016

of this Society to be at the present time. In what I have said, I may not have brought my ideas before you …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation

8/8/2016

these things are so, it may perhaps be said that we may as well fold our hands, and resign ourselves …

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Disease; — A Part of the Plan of Creation (pdf)

8/8/2016

these things are so, it may perhaps be said that we may as well fold our hands, and resign our selves …

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Currents and Counter-Currents in Medical Science

8/8/2016

the opinion, that, after all which has been said, the community is still overdosed: The best proof of it is … in the temple.—Behold! they vowed these gifts to the altar, and the gods saved them. Ay, said a doubting … to exterminate all barbarians, including the Romans, with their drugs, but is said to have physicked his own wife …

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The Reality and Certainty of Medicine (pdf)

8/8/2016

not by the lamp of experience, but who, as has been said, bear about a dark lantern of theory, bright indeed … the converse of what he had supposed them to be. ' Well, then,' said the philosopher, ' have the good …, as appeared by the " log-books," duly vouched. In surance offices are said to have looked upon …

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Rational Medicine: The Past and Present; Its True Relations to Specialists, to the Partisans of Exclusive Systems, and to Empirics

8/8/2016

this other scourge, and lays down the method of prevention and cure. I have said nothing of the distinguished … in Hippocrates and all the Fathers,” said Paracelsus. “Quapropter non dubito me solvisse nobile problema dato … morbo invenire remedium,” said Pitcairn, a famous champion of the mechanic theory of the 17th century …

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The Physician and Surgeon in War (pdf)

8/8/2016

. Alexander the Great is said to have lost more men from drinking (while they were heated) the cold …, it is said, with success. It is possible this same article of the materia medica might be advantageously …

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Medical Jurisprudence (pdf)

8/8/2016

, I will state a case in point. Years since, it is said that one of the most distinguished … for murder in a duel, which took place at the Old Bailey Sessions in June, 1821, Justice Bailey said … of the circumstances which led to his untimely end. Enough, I think, has been said to prove, that …

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