Physic and Physicians: A Medical Sketch Book, Exhibiting the Public and Private Life of the Most Celebrated Medical Men, of Former Days; with Memoirs of Eminent Living London Physicians and Surgeons, Page 140, Volume 1Longman, Orme, Brown, 1839 - Medicine |
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... Practice , " must be read in the spirit in which it is written . It is a satire on the stratagems and unprofessional conduct of a certain class of practitioners , anxious to advance their interests , and not over - scrupulous of the ...
... Practice , " must be read in the spirit in which it is written . It is a satire on the stratagems and unprofessional conduct of a certain class of practitioners , anxious to advance their interests , and not over - scrupulous of the ...
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... PRACTICE , OR THE ART OF RISING IN PHYSIC . Must commence with a new theory - Radcliffe's advice to Mead - Never appear Ignorant - Old Women's puzzling questions - Effect of Fees - Dr . Ward's mode of getting into practice - Tricks of ...
... PRACTICE , OR THE ART OF RISING IN PHYSIC . Must commence with a new theory - Radcliffe's advice to Mead - Never appear Ignorant - Old Women's puzzling questions - Effect of Fees - Dr . Ward's mode of getting into practice - Tricks of ...
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... practice , but in the account of alleged discoveries , which have proved in fact , to be only revivals of doctrines once supposed to be valuable , but long ago exploded as unimportant and useless . It is not only necessary , therefore ...
... practice , but in the account of alleged discoveries , which have proved in fact , to be only revivals of doctrines once supposed to be valuable , but long ago exploded as unimportant and useless . It is not only necessary , therefore ...
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... practice of medicine must have preceded the reduction of the art of heal- ing to scientific principles . The Babylonians and Egyptians carried their sick into the market - place and public streets , in order to obtain the experience of ...
... practice of medicine must have preceded the reduction of the art of heal- ing to scientific principles . The Babylonians and Egyptians carried their sick into the market - place and public streets , in order to obtain the experience of ...
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... practice we have the epigram of Martial : — " I'm ill . I send for Symmachus ; he's here , An hundred pupils following in the rear : All feel my pulse , with hands as cold as snow ; I had no fever then - I have it now . " Among the most ...
... practice we have the epigram of Martial : — " I'm ill . I send for Symmachus ; he's here , An hundred pupils following in the rear : All feel my pulse , with hands as cold as snow ; I had no fever then - I have it now . " Among the most ...
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Page 139 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 262 - Homer ruled as his demesne; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 263 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Page iii - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Page 65 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.
Page 26 - Why no, Sir. Every body knows you are paid for affecting warmth for your client; and it is, therefore, properly no dissimulation: the moment you come from the bar you resume your usual behaviour. Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet.
Page 88 - said the Doctor, 'do you pretend to be paid for such a piece of work ? Why, you have spoiled my pavement, and then covered it over with earth, to hide your bad work ! ' ' Doctor ! ' said the paviour, ' mine is not the only bad work the earth hides.
Page 359 - Others for Language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still, — The style is excellent; The sense, they humbly take upon content.
Page 277 - Fret not thyself, thou glittering child of pride. That a poor villager inspires my strain; With thee let Pageantry and Power abide: The gentle Muses haunt the sylvan reign; Where through wild groves at eve the lonely swain...
Page 20 - Whether what Temple says be true, that physicians have had more learning than the other faculties, I will not stay to inquire ; but, I believe, every man has found in physicians great liberality and dignity of sentiment, very prompt effusion of beneficence and willingness to exert a lucrative art where there is no hope of lucre.