The Medical Forum: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Medical Profession, Volume 1

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1904 - Homeopathy

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Page 404 - And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live : yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Page 80 - HONOUR A PHYSICIAN WITH THE HONOUR DUE UNTO HIM FOR the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him.
Page 80 - Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him : let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him.
Page 174 - A Text-Book of Obstetrics. By BARTON COOKE HIRST, MD, Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. Handsome octavo, 899 pages, with 746 illustrations, 39 of them in colors.
Page 377 - My duties to the Sultan are very heavy. I am obliged to visit him every day, early in the morning; and when he or any of his children, or any of the inmates of his harem, are indisposed, I dare not quit Kahira, but must stay during the greater part of the day in the palace.
Page 80 - For of the Most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
Page 80 - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Page 154 - ... each of us, as we travel the way of life, has the choice, according to our working, of turning all the voices of Nature into one song of rejoicing ; or of withering and quenching her sympathy into a fearful withdrawn silence of condemnation, — into a crying out of her stones and a shaking of her dust against us.
Page 100 - When we heard this we were ashamed, and restrained our tears. But he, having walked about, when he said that his legs were growing heavy, lay down on his back ; for the man so directed him. And at the same time he who gave him the poison, taking hold of him, after a short interval examined his feet and legs ; and then having pressed his foot hard, he asked if he felt it ; he said that he did not. And after this he pressed his thighs ; and thus going higher, he showed us that he was growing cold and...
Page 481 - Every powerful medicinal substance produces in the human body a kind of peculiar disease ; the more powerful the medicine, the more peculiar, marked, and violent the disease.^ We should imitate nature, which sometimes cures a chronic disease by superadding another, and employ in the (especially chronic) disease we wish to cure, that medicine which is able to produce another very similar artificial disease, and the former will be cured ; similia similibus.

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