The Canada Lancet and Practitioner. ...

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1924

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Page 154 - ... to establish a defense on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved, that, at the time of committing the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 215 - Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times. But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot.
Page 199 - Play up ! play up ! and play the game ! ' The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that broke ; — The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name ; But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks : ' Play up ! play up ! and play the game...
Page 214 - Into whatever houses I enter I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption, and further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.
Page 202 - Laryngology, Hygiene, and other topics of interest to students and practitioners. By leading members of the medical profession throughout the world.
Page 214 - With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practise my Art . . . Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption...
Page 107 - THE CARE OF THE BABY. — A Manual for Mothers and Nurses, containing Practical Directions for the Management of Infancy and Childhood in Health and in Disease.
Page 31 - Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hygiene, and Other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners.
Page 24 - Surgeons on the mystery of life, defining man as " an imperfectly denatured animal intermittently subject to the unpredictable reactions of an unlocated spiritual area." In 1925 when admitted to the freedom and livery of the Stationers' Company he suggested in an entertaining speech that the world might have been happier if stationery had never been invented, and the " Eleventh Plague " of paper and print had not been launched on suffering humanity. In 1926 he was...
Page 182 - To the Minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native Creek may have become familiar: but does the Minnow understand the Ocean Tides and periodic Currents, the Trade-winds...

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