Myths in medicine and old-time doctorsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - 242 páginas |
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... AGES - MAHOMETANISM IN EUROPE ; MEDICINE , CHRISTIANITY , AND LAW BLIGHTED .... 50 III . THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ABOUT TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO 65- IV . OLD - TIME THEORY OF THE NATURE AND CAUSE of Nervous MALADIES .. V. THE TREATMENT OF ...
... AGES - MAHOMETANISM IN EUROPE ; MEDICINE , CHRISTIANITY , AND LAW BLIGHTED .... 50 III . THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ABOUT TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO 65- IV . OLD - TIME THEORY OF THE NATURE AND CAUSE of Nervous MALADIES .. V. THE TREATMENT OF ...
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... ages , excepting the present , these being the gleanings of special studies in medical history . The work is addressed to the profession , especially the younger portion of it , and to an intelligent public , in plain language for all ...
... ages , excepting the present , these being the gleanings of special studies in medical history . The work is addressed to the profession , especially the younger portion of it , and to an intelligent public , in plain language for all ...
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... ages . In like manner , and worse , the mere theoretical and chimerical teachings of Van Helmont , Paracelsus , and others have led astray a faction of the medical world , besides multitudes of other people , for ages more . Having been ...
... ages . In like manner , and worse , the mere theoretical and chimerical teachings of Van Helmont , Paracelsus , and others have led astray a faction of the medical world , besides multitudes of other people , for ages more . Having been ...
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... ages still befogged medical teachings in a very marked degree , even in its best ranks , up to the seventeenth century ; that is , to within one or two hundred years of our own day . It was not until about 1600 A.D. that the old tradi ...
... ages still befogged medical teachings in a very marked degree , even in its best ranks , up to the seventeenth century ; that is , to within one or two hundred years of our own day . It was not until about 1600 A.D. that the old tradi ...
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... ages , and up to the present hour the countless societies and colleges of our own and other lands , and associations , national and international , devoted to the healing art , are in proof of this . So that where- ever social freedom ...
... ages , and up to the present hour the countless societies and colleges of our own and other lands , and associations , national and international , devoted to the healing art , are in proof of this . So that where- ever social freedom ...
Términos y frases comunes
ages alchemy allopathic anatomy ancient animal Antimony Apoplexy Aristotle attenuated Balneo believe blood brain caliph called cause century Christian College cure digest dilution disease Distempers distil doctrine dose drachm drop drugs earth effect Electrum Elixer empire England Erasistratus Europe fact fallacy fever fibres fire fluid four Galen Gold Gout grain Hahnemann hath healing art Helmont Hippocrates homœopathic Homunculus human body humors hundred infinitesimal Juices king learned Liquor liver medi medical profession medical school medicine ment miracles nature Nerves nervous disorders Nervous Distempers opathic Organon organs ounces pains Paracelsus patient persons Philosophers physicians practice present produced quackery regular remedies Saladin Salt says sect seperated sick sixth small-pox Sperm spirit-like spirits of Wine Spleen stomach Sulphur supposed symptoms theory thereof things third potency thirtieth thou tincture tion togeather trituration true Vapours vessel vial wonderful
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Página 77 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Página 185 - tis strange ! And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.
Página 195 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?
Página 136 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 103 - With us ther was a DOCTOUR OF PHISIKE, In all this world ne was ther non him like To speke of phisike, and of surgerie : For he was grounded in astronomic. He kept his patient a ful gret del In houres by his magike naturel. Wel coude he fortunen the ascendent Of his images for his patient.
Página 78 - ... you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer to her with a large needle (which gives you no more pain than a common scratch), and puts into the vein as much matter as can lie upon the head of her needle, and after that binds up the little wound with a hollow bit of shell ; and in this manner opens four or five veins. The...
Página 1 - ... he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Página 231 - Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus of Nazareth rise up and walk.
Página 79 - ... joined together, of the most lively green, perfectly matched, every one as large as a half-crown piece, and as thick as three crown pieces; and another of small emeralds, perfectly round. But her ear-rings eclipsed all the rest. They were two diamonds, shaped exactly like pears, as large as a big hazel-nut.
Página 23 - Elam, there are found (sections 215-225) regulations of the medical profession, fixing a scale of fees and penalties for malpractice. Physicians are mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments. Jeremiah asks, " Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?