The British Journal of Homoeopathy, Volume 22

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Page 263 - Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.
Page 577 - Read my little fable: He that runs may read. Most can raise the flowers now, For all have got the seed. And some are pretty enough, And some are poor indeed; And now again the people Call it but a weed.
Page 543 - Between the affirmative and the negative there is no border-land with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument. He always keeps the path. You cannot make excursions with him — for he sets you right.
Page 543 - You never witness his first apprehension of a thing. His understanding is always at its meridian — you never see the first dawn, the early streaks.
Page 652 - Homo enim, naturae minister et interpres, tantum facit et intelligit, quantum de naturae ordine, opere, vel mente, observaverit: nee amplius scit, aut potest.
Page 543 - Surmises, guesses, misgivings, half-intuitions, semiconsciousnesses, partial illuminations, dim instincts, embryo conceptions, have no place in his brain or vocabulary. The twilight of dubiety never falls upon him. Is he orthodox — he has no doubts. Is he an infidel — he has none either. Between the affirmative and the negative there is no borderland with him. You cannot hover with him upon the confines of truth, or wander in the maze of a probable argument.
Page 115 - Jaundice, a yellow colour of the skin and conjunctiva of the eye, arising from the presence of the colouring matter of the bile in the blood and tissues, is a symptom of various disordered conditions of the system rather than a special disease. With this colouring of the skin and eyes the following symptoms are associated : the...
Page 217 - ... which, at first developed on the broad marshy banks of the tepid Ganges, always searching out in preference the human being to his destruction and attaching themselves closely to him, when transferred to distant and even colder regions become...
Page 163 - Syme considers that syphilis consists of the primary ulcer, sometimes followed by sore-throat and slight, though sometimes tedious eruptions, but never by bone disease or any very bad symptoms when mercury is not used. Dr. Hughes Bennett says that the idea of mercury being an antidote for the syphilitic poison, and the incalculable mischief it has caused, will constitute a curious episode in the history of medicine at some future day.
Page 334 - Tendinous rheumatism, -according to Dr. Renard, differs from acute rheumatism by the absence of the general symptoms, and from the chronic by the presence of local inflammatory symptoms. Dr. Renard suffered from this complaint himself after an attack of acute rheumatism, for which he was copiously bled. The parts affected were the tendons of the hamstring muscles, and no improvement resulted after a long course of diaphoretics, camphor, terebinthinate and other liniments, and the administration of...

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