Myths in medicine and old-time doctorsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884 - 242 стор. |
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Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 195 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...
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Сторінка 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.
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Сторінка 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?