Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - 566 páginas |
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... is bitterly felt , as galled vanity compares the present with the past . Hysteric symptoms are now developed : the passions , which are too fre- Me- quently increased even to intensity , rather than cooled , 154 DÆMONOMANIA .
... is bitterly felt , as galled vanity compares the present with the past . Hysteric symptoms are now developed : the passions , which are too fre- Me- quently increased even to intensity , rather than cooled , 154 DÆMONOMANIA .
Página 179
... symptoms of the disease . " During a considerable time the benevolent man and his wife had escaped the malady , but at last his excellent wife was smitten , and died in his arms at the age of 27 - far from her children , who had been ...
... symptoms of the disease . " During a considerable time the benevolent man and his wife had escaped the malady , but at last his excellent wife was smitten , and died in his arms at the age of 27 - far from her children , who had been ...
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... symptoms of plague , then pre- vailing in Alexandria , which place the vessel had left with a foul bill of health . On the same day another vessel , the Nancy arrived from the same port , having also on board two men labouring under the ...
... symptoms of plague , then pre- vailing in Alexandria , which place the vessel had left with a foul bill of health . On the same day another vessel , the Nancy arrived from the same port , having also on board two men labouring under the ...
Página 183
... symptoms ; while those from the Bengal volunteer battalion , and the other corps encamped near the marshes of El Hamed , were of an in- termittent and remittent type . The cases that occurred in the cold and rainy months of December and ...
... symptoms ; while those from the Bengal volunteer battalion , and the other corps encamped near the marshes of El Hamed , were of an in- termittent and remittent type . The cases that occurred in the cold and rainy months of December and ...
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... symptoms . This rapid effect of prussic acid is supposed to arise from its great volatility and powers of expansion , by which it is diffused more quickly through the circulation than the blood . Accord- ing to Schrader one drop of this ...
... symptoms . This rapid effect of prussic acid is supposed to arise from its great volatility and powers of expansion , by which it is diffused more quickly through the circulation than the blood . Accord- ing to Schrader one drop of this ...
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Página 529 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Página 25 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Página 403 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions...
Página 146 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Página 445 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Página 127 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 25 - To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation.
Página 25 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Página 403 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.