The Hunterian Oration: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, on the 14th of February, 1879On Dr. Hunter's work and methods. |
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... medicine , were not likely to be revived by one who could write that " as the causes and effects of matter seem to be entirely connected with matter itself , and to be a pro- perty in and inseparable from it , and as these are becoming ...
... medicine , were not likely to be revived by one who could write that " as the causes and effects of matter seem to be entirely connected with matter itself , and to be a pro- perty in and inseparable from it , and as these are becoming ...
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... Medicine and Surgery , no one who is cognisant of these subjects can doubt ; and we may trust that the rolling wheel of time will ere long give to the sympathies of those who now oppose it a higher and a better turn . While thus ...
... Medicine and Surgery , no one who is cognisant of these subjects can doubt ; and we may trust that the rolling wheel of time will ere long give to the sympathies of those who now oppose it a higher and a better turn . While thus ...
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... medicine is based , has been heightening , widening , separating from the others and growing into a mountain . It is impossible for any one to climb them all . Some must be aban- doned . The alternative is short cuts , forced marches ...
... medicine is based , has been heightening , widening , separating from the others and growing into a mountain . It is impossible for any one to climb them all . Some must be aban- doned . The alternative is short cuts , forced marches ...
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... thinking is not cultivated in due propor- tion to learning , and that mental stores are heaped with too little regard for the strengthening of the faculty to use them . But in Medicine and Surgery , and 30 THE HUNTERIAN ORATION .
... thinking is not cultivated in due propor- tion to learning , and that mental stores are heaped with too little regard for the strengthening of the faculty to use them . But in Medicine and Surgery , and 30 THE HUNTERIAN ORATION .
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... Medicine , & c . , & c . Svo . 15s . ANDERSON . - Works by DR . MCCALL ANDERSON , Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Glasgow , and Physician to the Western Infirmary and to the Wards for Skin Diseases . ON THE TREATMENT ...
... Medicine , & c . , & c . Svo . 15s . ANDERSON . - Works by DR . MCCALL ANDERSON , Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Glasgow , and Physician to the Western Infirmary and to the Wards for Skin Diseases . ON THE TREATMENT ...
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