Mysteries of medical life; or, Doctors and their doings1856 |
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... HUMAN FAMILY . 3rd Edition , enlarged , with 50 coloured and 5 plain Illustrations , engraved on steel , and 97 Engravings on wood , royal 8vo . elegantly bound in cloth . £ 1 16s . APPENDIX TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS OF THE ...
... HUMAN FAMILY . 3rd Edition , enlarged , with 50 coloured and 5 plain Illustrations , engraved on steel , and 97 Engravings on wood , royal 8vo . elegantly bound in cloth . £ 1 16s . APPENDIX TO THE FIRST AND SECOND EDITIONS OF THE ...
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... human life . Look at the men who daily pass your door , armed with the lance , the potion , and the pill ! How few of them ride forth to real fame ! How many gain a worthless notoriety ! Some , whom the world regards as prodigies of ...
... human life . Look at the men who daily pass your door , armed with the lance , the potion , and the pill ! How few of them ride forth to real fame ! How many gain a worthless notoriety ! Some , whom the world regards as prodigies of ...
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... - is early instructed in the mysteries of life , and early familiarised with some of the most demoralising of human vices . He sees , during his pupilage , much that has a vicious tendency - he is sur- MEDICAL LIFE . 7 Student.
... - is early instructed in the mysteries of life , and early familiarised with some of the most demoralising of human vices . He sees , during his pupilage , much that has a vicious tendency - he is sur- MEDICAL LIFE . 7 Student.
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... an up- braiding conscience . " No busy dreams awake his curtained sleep . " " No angry spirits hover round his midnight couch , and cry aloud for vengeance . " But , unfortunately for science and humanity 18 MYSTERIES OF.
... an up- braiding conscience . " No busy dreams awake his curtained sleep . " " No angry spirits hover round his midnight couch , and cry aloud for vengeance . " But , unfortunately for science and humanity 18 MYSTERIES OF.
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George Allarton. vengeance . " But , unfortunately for science and humanity , the medical profession is not wholly composed of such men as these . It is an extraordinary physiological fact , that doctors , like sheep , are gregarious ...
George Allarton. vengeance . " But , unfortunately for science and humanity , the medical profession is not wholly composed of such men as these . It is an extraordinary physiological fact , that doctors , like sheep , are gregarious ...
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Page iv - I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill ; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Page 98 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page x - O ! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Page 21 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Page 97 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 41 - At every trifle scorn to take offence ; That always shows great pride or little sense : Those heads, as stomachs, are not sure the best Which nauseate all, and nothing can digest. Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move ; For fools admire, but men of sense approve ; As things seem large which we through mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to magnify.
Page 80 - Where yet was ever found a mother, Who'd give her booby for another ? And should we change with human breed, Well might we pass for fools indeed.