The College Journal of Medical Science, Volumen3

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Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Company, 1858

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Página 8 - The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things: the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.
Página 294 - ... murderous quackery. What merit do physicians flatter themselves they possess, by being able to salivate a patient? Cannot the veriest fool in Christendom give calomel and salivate? But I will ask another question, Who is there that can stop the career of calomel when once it has taken the reins into its own possession ? He who resigns the fate of his patient to calomel, is a vile enemy to the sick, and if he has a tolerable practice, will, in a single season, lay the foundation of a good business...
Página 400 - Yes, — the history of a man for the nine months preceding his birth, would, probably, be far more interesting, and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Página 402 - ... (an accomplishment his mother had been taught) spontaneously took to begging for every thing he wanted when about seven or eight months old ; he would beg for food, beg to be let out of the room, and one day was found opposite a rabbit hutch begging for the rabbits.
Página 342 - American practitioners are so rash and officious, the saying in the apocrypha (38 and 15; may with much propriety be applied to them. 'He that sinneth before his Maker, let him fall into the hands of the physician!' Frequently there is more danger from the physician than from the distemper.
Página 323 - Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.
Página 342 - In the most trifling cases they use a routine of practice. When I first arrived in New England, I asked ... a noted, facetious practitioner, what was their general method of practice. He told me their practice was very uniform : bleeding, vomiting, blistering, purging, anodyne, and so forth ; if the illness continued, there was ' repetendi ; ' and finally ' murderandi ; ' nature was never to be consulted or allowed to have any concern in the affair.
Página 342 - In general the physical practice in our colonies is so perniciously bad, that excepting in surgery, and some very acute cases, it is better to let nature under a proper regimen take her course, . . . than to trust to the honesty and sagacity of the practitioner.
Página 341 - Surgery, and approved of, and admitted by one of his Majesty's Council, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the King's Attorney-General, and the Mayor of the City of New York...
Página 28 - ... and that the internal use of the chloride of bromine had no influence whatever in preventing relapse. Landolfi by ministerial authority selected six cases himself at the Vienna hospital, and treated them under the observation of a committee, yet he only cured one, and that was an innocent tumor, a partial hypertrophy of the mamma, for which he destroyed the whole breast quite unnecessarily...

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