Prophylaxis, an anniversary oration

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Baillière Bros.; London, H. Baillière, 1867 - 70 páginas

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Página 3 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página 9 - We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it conies from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 9 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página 18 - October, there had not occurred a case of fever in any one of these houses ; yet, before they were under regulation, twenty cases of fever have been received into the London Fever Hospital from a single house, in the course of a few weeks. " ' In the whole of the improved dwellings the exemption from cholera has been as complete as from typhus. During the entire course of the epidemic in 1848 and 1849, no case of cholera occurred in any one of these dwellings, though the pestilence raged in all the...
Página 19 - ... the London Fever Hospital, from a single house, in the course of a few weeks. ' In the whole of the improved dwellings the exemption from cholera has been as complete as from typhus. During the entire course of the epidemic in 1848 and 1849, no case of cholera occurred in any one of these dwellings, though the pestilence raged in all the districts in which they are situated, and there were instances of two, and even four, deaths in single houses close to their very walls.
Página 18 - Of this number 1,308 had permanently registered, and were under efficient regulation. In the houses thus reported, the lodgers numbered at least 25,000. During the quarter ending the 23rd October, there had not occurred a case of fever in any one of these houses ; yet, before they were under regulation, twenty cases of fever have been received into the London Fever Hospital from a single house, in the course of a few weeks. " ' In the whole of the improved dwellings the exemption from cholera has...
Página 16 - Disease, like sin," he explained, "is permitted to exist; but conscience and revelation on the one hand, and reason and science on the other, are the kindred means with which God has armed us against them.
Página 24 - Ante adversam autem valetudinem, ut supra dixi, quaedam notae oriuntur, quarum omnium commune est, aliter se corpus habere atque consuevit ; neque in pejus tantum, sed etiam in melius. Ergo si plenior aliquis, et speciosior, et coloratior factus est, suspecta habere bona sua debet : quae, quia neque in eodem habitu subsistere, neque ultra progredi possunt, fere retro, quasi ruina quadam revolvuntur. Pejus...
Página 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. THE NEW YORK PRINTING COMPANY, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street, NEW YORK.
Página 21 - Non est de nihilo , quod publica fama susurrat , Et partem veri fabula semper habet.

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