...former : — " Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to th« ships convey : A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal. Is more than armies to the public weal." Patroclus was another surgeon of antiquity, and one most decidedly of the military order ; his exploits...

...while the surgical department of Medicine was so highly esteemed that their best poet declared, that " A wise physician skilled our wounds to heal Is more than armies to the public weal." They trusted much to amulets as late as the days of Pericles, who was pronounced insane by Theophrastus,...

...vital interest to the State ? A great poet aptly translates the words of the greatest : " The learn'd physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." The eloquent author of " Ecco Homo" exclaims : " No man who loves his kind can in theso days be con2...

...former : — "Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ship- convey ; A wiac physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the pubhc weal." Patroclus was another surgeon of antiquity, and one most decidedly of the military order;...

...valiant son ! Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. 635 A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Old Nestor mounts the seat : beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god. He lends the...

...thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, sJcill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal.' " Not only was " trembling Greece " anxious for the safety of her " blameless physician," her " shep*...

...morning, and a Roman bath once or twice a week. CHAPTER III. BEN RHYDDING THERAPEUTICS. ECLECTIC. ' A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. ' Pape's Homer. | HE substitution of natural and healthy for artificial and injurious conditions, as...

...acceptance, and to speak of some of the characteristics of our lamented friend. A Greek poet has written : "A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Our departed brother was a wise physician, and his quick translation into the life immortal is an event...

...facility of a charm. With sincere gratulation the homoeopathist can appropriate the old motto : " The good physician skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." He desires to record one observation in the results of practice, which sharply exhibits the distinction...

...on the log roll of our medical practitioners ! As has been fully proved in a late national emergency A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. The best surgeon is he who has been hacked himself. 'A good Surgeon,' says the proverb, 'Should have...