The History of medicine comprising a narrative of its progress from the earliest ages to the present timeLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 483 pages |
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... remedies for its readjustment , or to determine how far those facts go , to form a solid basis for a pure and exact science . To show that such an undertaking is not uncalled- for , I need only advert to the anomalous state of the ...
... remedies for its readjustment , or to determine how far those facts go , to form a solid basis for a pure and exact science . To show that such an undertaking is not uncalled- for , I need only advert to the anomalous state of the ...
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... remedies are of indigenous growth in the very localities which generate the diseases for which these remedies are most applicable ; and how far , if true , it may be sug- gestive of such instinctive appetences , I do not pre- sume to ...
... remedies are of indigenous growth in the very localities which generate the diseases for which these remedies are most applicable ; and how far , if true , it may be sug- gestive of such instinctive appetences , I do not pre- sume to ...
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... remedies which were falsely alleged as immediate revelations . It was thus that the priest became the physician ; and even up to the time of Alexander the Great , Serapis was revered as a god of medicine ; and it was in his temple at ...
... remedies which were falsely alleged as immediate revelations . It was thus that the priest became the physician ; and even up to the time of Alexander the Great , Serapis was revered as a god of medicine ; and it was in his temple at ...
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... remedies were revealed to them ; but , if no such sleep occurred , sacrificial offerings and fervent prayers were made ; and if these failed , the priests themselves professed to have ecsta- tical sleeps , and vicarious dreams , which ...
... remedies were revealed to them ; but , if no such sleep occurred , sacrificial offerings and fervent prayers were made ; and if these failed , the priests themselves professed to have ecsta- tical sleeps , and vicarious dreams , which ...
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... remedy , generally of as uncertain a character as those propounded by Escu- lapius and his followers . Instead of the ancient and credulous Grecian , however , the high - born and edu- cated of the nineteenth century are the supporters ...
... remedy , generally of as uncertain a character as those propounded by Escu- lapius and his followers . Instead of the ancient and credulous Grecian , however , the high - born and edu- cated of the nineteenth century are the supporters ...
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