The progress and the spirit of medical science: An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New York academy of medicine, November, 25, 1858Printed for the Academy by W. H. Tinson, 1859 - 104 páginas |
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... great progress was made in anatomy by the labors of Fallopius (1560), Eustachius (1570), Vesalius, Fabricius, Caesalpinus, and others ; and the THE OCCULT SCIENCES. 43 absolute authority of Galen began to 42 ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE.
... great progress was made in anatomy by the labors of Fallopius (1560), Eustachius (1570), Vesalius, Fabricius, Caesalpinus, and others ; and the THE OCCULT SCIENCES. 43 absolute authority of Galen began to 42 ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE.
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... Fabricius in Italy. Pare, the father of French surgery, had also taught to heal wounds by the first intention, had revived the use of the ligature to arrest hemorrhage, and first used the twisted suture in hare-lip. Tagliacotius had ...
... Fabricius in Italy. Pare, the father of French surgery, had also taught to heal wounds by the first intention, had revived the use of the ligature to arrest hemorrhage, and first used the twisted suture in hare-lip. Tagliacotius had ...
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... Fabricius had discovered the valves of the veins in 1574, and noticed that they point towards the heart ; but this ... Fabricius' discovery), and being fourteen years the junior of Galileo, he became the pupil of Fabricius, then Prof. of ...
... Fabricius had discovered the valves of the veins in 1574, and noticed that they point towards the heart ; but this ... Fabricius' discovery), and being fourteen years the junior of Galileo, he became the pupil of Fabricius, then Prof. of ...
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... Fabricius' discovery had lain a barren and useless fact for forty- five years. When this grand deduction — for it was not an induction — was once made, it seems so simple that we are now astonished that it was not made before, or that ...
... Fabricius' discovery had lain a barren and useless fact for forty- five years. When this grand deduction — for it was not an induction — was once made, it seems so simple that we are now astonished that it was not made before, or that ...
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... no exclusive claim to originality. To say that the investigations of Harvey were not as original as those of Fabricius, is simply absurd. FALSE ORIGINALITY. 89 Originality falsely so called. There are, however, 88 ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE.
... no exclusive claim to originality. To say that the investigations of Harvey were not as original as those of Fabricius, is simply absurd. FALSE ORIGINALITY. 89 Originality falsely so called. There are, however, 88 ANNIVERSARY DISCOURSE.
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Página 83 - 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 endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página 33 - Discoveries, but to penetrate still further, and not to overcome his adversaries in disputes but nature by labour, not in short to give elegant and specious opinions, but to know to a Certainty and Demonstration, let him, as a true son of Science (if such be his wish), join with us ; that when he has left the antechambers of Nature trodden by the multitude, an entrance may at last be discovered to her inner apartments.
Página 8 - a complement of cognitions, having in point of form the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter the character of real truth.
Página 67 - I ascribe no intention to God, for I mistrust the feeble powers of my reason. I observe facts merely, and go no further. I only pretend to the character of the historian of what is." " I cannot make nature an intelligent being who does nothing in vain, who acts by the shortest mode, who does all for the best.
Página 24 - In the art of experiment, and in trying to find his way with untripped step among details, the Greek was as feeble as a child: whereas in the sphere of ideas and vast general conceptions, as well as in the fine art of embodying such universals and generalities in beautiful and appropriate symbols, it is not a paradox to say that he was sometimes stronger than a man.
Página 49 - ... philosophy, is a weak thing. Therefore, as too extensive generals, though true, do not bring men home to action, there is more danger in such generals as are false in themselves and seduce instead of directing the mind. Medicine, therefore, has been rather professed than labored, and yet more labored than advanced, as the pains bestowed thereon were rather circular than progressive; for I find great repetition, and but little new matter, in the writers of physic.
Página 85 - Roman, that, if they chance at any time to be without company, they are like a becalmed ship ; they never move but by the wind of other men's breath, and have no oars of their own to steer withal.
Página 81 - ... have often thought, that provided with a thorough insight into the history of any disease whatsoever, I could invariably apply an equivalent remedy; a clear path being thus marked out for me by the different phenomena of the complaint. These phenomena, if carefully collated with each other, lead us, as it were, by the hand to those palpable indications of treatment which are drawn, not from the hallucinations of our fancy, but from the innermost penetralia of Nature.
Página 93 - We are kept in remembrance that there is more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in our philosophy.
Página 33 - It is not obvious, or to be understood in a cursory view, nor does it flatter the mind in its preconceived notions, nor will it descend to the level of the generality of mankind unless by its advantages and effects. Let there exist, then (and may it be of advantage to both), two sources, and two distributions of learning, and in like manner two tribes, and as it were kindred families of contetnplators or philosophers, without any hostility or alienation between them; but rather allied and united...