Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - 566 páginas |
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... thought it necessary to confirm his dixit by drawings and engrav- ings of the questionable remains . Such is the vanity of the learned ! An infallible philosopher informs us that Adam's stature was one hundred and twenty - three feet ...
... thought it necessary to confirm his dixit by drawings and engrav- ings of the questionable remains . Such is the vanity of the learned ! An infallible philosopher informs us that Adam's stature was one hundred and twenty - three feet ...
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... thought me worthy of this cure ; ' when behold ! imme- diately after she felt an extraordinary sensation through- out the whole arm to the end of the fingers . The pain instantly left her , the swelling gradually subsided , and Dr. B ...
... thought me worthy of this cure ; ' when behold ! imme- diately after she felt an extraordinary sensation through- out the whole arm to the end of the fingers . The pain instantly left her , the swelling gradually subsided , and Dr. B ...
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... thought proper to revenge himself . Agrippa became much alarmed at the probable consequences of this unfortunate adventure , and he ordered the demon , without loss of time , to reanimate his victim , and walk about the streets with him ...
... thought proper to revenge himself . Agrippa became much alarmed at the probable consequences of this unfortunate adventure , and he ordered the demon , without loss of time , to reanimate his victim , and walk about the streets with him ...
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... thought in these realms . that our kings could cure scrofula with their anointed fingers ! Dr. Paris's truly philosophic remarks on this subject , in his valuable work , entitled Pharmacologia , are worthy of quotation : - " Credulity ...
... thought in these realms . that our kings could cure scrofula with their anointed fingers ! Dr. Paris's truly philosophic remarks on this subject , in his valuable work , entitled Pharmacologia , are worthy of quotation : - " Credulity ...
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... thought that the tongue was in dispensable for the purposes of speech , yet there are instances on record in which this has not been found an invariable rule . Dr Con- yers Middleton mentions two cases of distinct articulation with at ...
... thought that the tongue was in dispensable for the purposes of speech , yet there are instances on record in which this has not been found an invariable rule . Dr Con- yers Middleton mentions two cases of distinct articulation with at ...
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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.