The Medical Times and Gazette, Volume 2J. & A. Churchill, 1868 - Medicine |
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Page 153 - Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Page 157 - ... Job, and other parts of the sacred writings ; seeking for the dead among the living : which also makes the inhibition and repression of it the more important, because from this unwholesome mixture of things human and divine there arises not only a fantastic philosophy but also an heretical religion. Very meet it is therefore that we be sober-minded, and give to faith that only which is faith's.
Page 112 - I have seen cases in which the posterior wall of the bladder and the anterior wall of the rectum...
Page 157 - And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world...
Page 289 - Arts or passed the matriculation examination, been a student during two years at one or more of the medical institutions or schools recognised by this University. 4. Of having attended a course of lectures on each of three of the subjects in the following list...
Page 291 - English language, including grammar and composition ; Arithmetic, including vulgar and decimal fractions ; Algebra, including simple equations ; Geometry, first two books of Euclid ; Latin, translation and grammar. And one of the following optional subjects : — Greek, French, German, Natural Philosophy, including mechanics, hydrostatics and pneumatics.
Page 196 - The treatment consisted in the application of a strong solution of nitrate of silver to the scrotum of the affected side, followed by gentle pressure.
Page 171 - Haughton suggests, though in the most guarded way, that "our successors may even dare to speculate on the changes that converted a crust of bread, or a bottle of wine, in the brain of Swift, Moliere, or Shakespeare, into the conception of the gentle Glumdalclitch, the rascally Sganarelle, or the immortal Falstaff...
Page 296 - Members or licentiates of any legally constituted College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom, and graduates in surgery of any university requiring residence to obtain degrees, will be admitted for examination on producing their diploma, licence, or degree, together with proof of being twenty-one years of age, and of having been occupied at least four years in the acquirement of professional knowledge.
Page 293 - Of having attained the age of twenty-one years. 2. Of moral character. 3. Of having passed, before the commencement of professional study, an examination in the subjects of general education recognised by the College.