The British Homoeopathic Review, Volume 48

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1904 - Medicine

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Page 586 - The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley, And lea'e us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.
Page 726 - ... in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low...
Page 618 - We have not won our political battles, we have not carried our main points, we have not stopped our adversaries' advance, we have not marched victoriously with the modern world ; but we have told silently upon the mind of the country, we have prepared currents of feeling which sap our adversaries' position when it seems gained, we have kept up our own communications with the future.
Page 204 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 618 - Perfection, as culture conceives it, is not possible while the individual remains isolated. The individual is required, under pain of being stunted and enfeebled in his own development if he disobeys, to carry others along with him in his march towards perfection, to be continually doing all he can to enlarge and increase the volume of the human stream sweeping thitherward.
Page 636 - Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them; and he thence deduced the law of attraction for spherical shells of constant density.
Page 343 - Were there no changes in the environment but such as the organism had adapted changes to meet ; and were it never to fail in the efficiency with which it met them ; there would be eternal existence and universal knowledge.
Page 13 - ... as an example of it, and in its most violent and hopeless form. The pulse was now small and so rapid as hardly to be counted ; the surface had become cold and dry ; the livid color of the skin, when pressed out with the finger, returned very slowly ; the whole was a most complete picture of torpor...
Page 542 - She has frequent empty eructations after every meal. 7. Her temper is passionate, disposed to anger. —Whenever the pain is severe, she is covered with perspiration. —The catamenia were quite regular a fortnight since.
Page 543 - Symptom 5 several medicines certainly cause a flow of saliva like water-brash, just as well as bryonia (282) ; the others, however, do not produce the remaining symptoms in a very similar manner. Hence bryonia is to be preferred to them in this point. Empty...

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