Pamphlets - Homoeopathic, Volumen22

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1862
 

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Página 16 - No careful observer of his actions or candid reader of his writings can hesitate for a moment to admit that he was a very extraordinary man, one whose name will descend to posterity as the exclusive excogitator and founder of an original system of medicine, the remote, if not the immediate, cause of more important fundamental changes in the practice of the healing art than have resulted from any promulgated since the days of Galen himself.
Página 4 - ... left to ramble uncontrolled, leads us astray into a wilderness of perplexities and errors, a land of mists and shadows; but which, properly controlled by experience and reflection, becomes the noblest attribute of man; the source of poetic genius, the instrument of discovery in Science, without the aid of which Newton would never have invented fluxions, nor Davy have decomposed the earths and alkalies, nor would Columbus have found another continent.
Página 13 - To establish it as a justification in any particular case, it is necessary either to show, by clear proofs, its contemporaneous existence evinced by present circumstances, or the existence of an habitual tendency developed in previous cases, becoming in itself a second nature.
Página 12 - In order to be responsible he must have sufficient power of memory to recollect the relation in which he stands to others, and in which others stand to him; that the act he is doing is contrary to the plain dictates of justice and right, injurious to others, and a violation of the dictates of duty.
Página 19 - Although a number of theories have been advanced as to the cause of this singular phenomenon, no entirely satisfactory explanation has yet been found.
Página 10 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 64 - When the child is restless, wants to be carried about, wakes up every now and then complaining of pain in the throat ; when a bloody saliva runs out of the mouth during sleep ; when the parotid glands are a good deal swollen ; when there are transparent, jelly-like discharges from the bowels at stool or afterwards.
Página 13 - An American physician or surgeon may be, and often is, a coarse and uncultivated person, devoid of intellectual interests outside of his calling, a,nd quite unable to either speak or write his mother tongue with accuracy.

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