Medical Library and Historical Journal, Volume 4The Association, 1906 - Electronic journals |
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Page 336 - Their blood is shed In confirmation of the noblest claim, Our claim to feed upon immortal truth, To walk with God, to be divinely free, To soar, and to anticipate the skies.
Page 139 - We pass ; the path that each man trod Is dim, or will be dim, with weeds : What fame is left for human deeds In endless age ? It rests with God.
Page 33 - Judgment, he like a great & good Man, immediately acknowledges the mistake, and, for the benefit of survivors, points out other methods by which it might have been more happily Treated ; — The latter part of this Field of Tuition is the surest method of obtaining just Ideas of Diseases.
Page 78 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre...
Page 203 - On laying bare the roots of the spinal nerves, I found that I could cut across the fasciculus of nerves, which took its origin from the posterior portion of the spinal marrow, without convulsing the muscles of the back; but that on touching the anterior fasciculus with the point of a knife, the muscles of the back were immediately convulsed.
Page 75 - My opponents forget," said he, " the twenty-first verse of the second chapter of Genesis. That is the record of the first surgical operation ever performed, and that text proves that the Maker of the universe, before he took the rib from Adam's side for the creation of Eve, caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam.
Page 33 - ... authority or experience, for all he says on the occasion; and if the disease baffles the power of art and the patient falls a sacrifice to it, he then brings his knowledge to the test, and fixes honour or discredit on his reputation by exposing all the morbid parts to view, and demonstrates by what means it...
Page 255 - In Egypt, in the thirteenth century, the habit of eating human flesh pervaded all classes of society ; extraordinary snares were spread for physicians in particular. They were called to attend persons who pretended to be sick, but who were only hungry; and it was not in order to be consulted, but devoured.
Page 309 - Annual Index of Authors and Subjects" is issued. The subject part of this annual index is elaborately subdivided, the classification...
Page 251 - ... flat, and very thickly wooded. As soon as it became lighter, other islands began to appear on both sides ; so that on that day there were six islands to be seen lying in different directions, and most of them of considerable size. We directed our course towards that which we had first seen...