An Introduction to the history of medicine

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W.B. Saunders Company, 1913 - 899 pages
 

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Page 52 - a mighty hunter before the Lord" and that "the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Erech, and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar.
Page 545 - there is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action and the resolute facing of the world as it is, when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off,
Page 58 - 1. Honour a physician according to thy need of him with the honours due unto him: For verily the Lord hath created him. 2. For from the Most High cometh healing: And from the King he shall receive a gift. 3. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : And in the sight of great men he shall be admired. The
Page 55 - I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee
Page 48 - is thus divided among them : Each physician applies himself to one disease only, and not more. All places abound in physicians; some physicians are for the eyes, others for the head, others for the teeth, others for the intestines, and others for internal disorders.
Page 29 - said: It learned from a monk how to use antimony, from a Jesuit how to cure agues, from a friar how to cut for stone, from a soldier how to treat gout, from a sailor how to keep off scurvy, from a postmaster how to sound the
Page 56 - Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword.
Page 390 - Taylor was the most ignorant man I ever knew, but sprightly: Ward, the dullest. Taylor challenged me once to talk Latin with him [laughing]. I quoted some of Horace, which he took to be a part of my own speech. He said a few words well enough.
Page 124 - On that hard Pagan world disgust And secret loathing fell. Deep weariness and sated lust Made human life a hell. She veiled her eagles, snapp'd her sword, And laid her sceptre down; Her stately purple she abhorr'd, And her imperial crown. She broke her flutes, she stopp'd her sports, Her artists could not please; She tore her books, she shut her courts, She fled her palaces.
Page 280 - strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures; Hanging a golden stamp

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