The American Medical Journal, Volume 15; Volume 17Southeastern Book and Publishing Company, 1887 - Medicine |
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... things , and the time had come in the history of these mountebanks when they would be compelled to prove themselves physicians by their works . There was a lady in an adjoining settlement that mountebanks Nos . I and 3 had been waiting ...
... things , and the time had come in the history of these mountebanks when they would be compelled to prove themselves physicians by their works . There was a lady in an adjoining settlement that mountebanks Nos . I and 3 had been waiting ...
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... things . It signi- fies , first of all , lack of confidence in the knowledge and skill of the medical fraternity . This ... thing . " The masses know just enough to distrust their doctors , just enough to understand the physiological ...
... things . It signi- fies , first of all , lack of confidence in the knowledge and skill of the medical fraternity . This ... thing . " The masses know just enough to distrust their doctors , just enough to understand the physiological ...
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... things , the physician can secure and maintain a position of dignified independence is a question of some importance . Since , when he assumes the title of Dr. , he does not , with it , secure the prerogative of immunity from criticism ...
... things , the physician can secure and maintain a position of dignified independence is a question of some importance . Since , when he assumes the title of Dr. , he does not , with it , secure the prerogative of immunity from criticism ...
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... things of which we sometimes hear . It is the privilege , if not the duty , of the medical adviser to ex- plain the " reasons why " of simple household remedies . The well - informed physician has it in his power to make his opinion ...
... things of which we sometimes hear . It is the privilege , if not the duty , of the medical adviser to ex- plain the " reasons why " of simple household remedies . The well - informed physician has it in his power to make his opinion ...
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... thing whose revelations are more apt to stimulate anyone's vanity than to help him along in the world , phrenology is always sure of credulous devotees . It flourishes best on rural soil , though when well watered it grows fairly in ...
... thing whose revelations are more apt to stimulate anyone's vanity than to help him along in the world , phrenology is always sure of credulous devotees . It flourishes best on rural soil , though when well watered it grows fairly in ...
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Page 302 - ... them ; not because their verity is testified by portents and wonders ; but because his experience teaches him that whenever he chooses to bring these convictions into contact with their primary source, Nature — whenever he thinks fit to test them by appealing to experiment and to observation — Nature will confirm them. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Page 7 - AGAIN to the battle, Achaians ! Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance ; Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree — It has been, and shall yet be, the land of the free : For the cross of our faith is replanted, The pale dying crescent is daunted, And we march that the foot-prints of Mahomet's slaves May be washed out in blood from our forefathers
Page 307 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Page 302 - For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. And it cannot be otherwise, for every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority, the cherishing of the keenest scepticism, the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith...
Page 290 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree (or wood) of life which bare twelve manner of fruits and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the trees were for the healing of the nations.