The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 1

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J. & A. Churchill, 1873 - Medicine

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Page 72 - Now, when a directly opposite state of mind is induced, there is a strong and involuntary tendency to the performance of movements of a directly opposite nature, though these are of no use; and such movements are in some cases highly expressive.
Page 199 - They wanted to make an old woman of me, or that I should stuff Latin and Greek at the University ; but these schemes I cracked like so many vermin as they came before me.
Page 117 - Virtue; and had inclination to that Duty and Obedience they had never been taught; so that when it pleased God to bring King Charles the Second back to his Throne, he found that University [Oxford] . . . abounding in excellent Learning, and devoted to Duty and Obedience, little inferior to what it was before its desolation...
Page 72 - The movements of expression in the face and body, whatever their origin may have been, are in themselves of much importance for our welfare. They serve as the first means of communication between the mother and her infant ; she smiles approval, and thus encourages her child on the right path, or frowns disapproval.
Page 97 - By this means I hope, gentlemen, not only to supply an amount of skin equal to the size of the piece transferred, but to furnish also a nucleus from which additional skin shall be formed. I hope to establish a new centre of life — an oasis — from whose outer verge a true and healthy vegetation shall advance in every direction over the exhausted soil.
Page 147 - Certificates of diligent attendance in each term on courses of Lectures, or Practical Instruction, in two of the subjects of the Examinations for Medical or Surgical degrees; or of diligent attendance in each term on a course of Lectures, or Practical Instruction, in one of those subjects, and also on the Practice of Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Page 82 - Of the patients about whom I have been consulted, I know only two who are now, after many years, disordered in mind,, and of them one had already been so before her marriage.
Page 15 - Director/ as they had never heard of any higher officer, and these Jacky Frost, as he was commonly called, lost no time in mounting upon his coat, much to the annoyance of Lord Stanhope and the rest of the body. " It was determined, in consequence, to get rid of Mr. Frost, by doing away with the .office of Director altogether; the orders, however, and the album he could not be induced to part with. His honours after all were dearly purchased, as the Royal Humane Society, thinking, perhaps, that it...
Page 241 - Here rests in awful silence, cold and still, One whom no common sparks of genius fired; Whose reach of thought Nature alone could fill, Whose deep research the love of Truth inspired.
Page 15 - ... .office of Director altogether; the orders, however, and the album he could not be induced to part with. His honours after all were dearly purchased, as the Royal Humane Society, thinking, perhaps, that it was sadly infra dig. for a chevalier, with two crosses on his breast, to be holding the bellows to the nose of every chimney-sweeper picked out of the Serpentine, dismissed him from the employment he held under them, whereby he lost 200/.

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