Autobiography of the Late Sir Benjamin C. BrodieLongmans, Green, and Company, 1865 - 187 pages |
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... patients . It is usual in these days to regard this class of practitioners with little respect ; but the fact is , that they were very useful persons , and , having no very ambitious aspirations , they were within the reach of the ...
... patients . It is usual in these days to regard this class of practitioners with little respect ; but the fact is , that they were very useful persons , and , having no very ambitious aspirations , they were within the reach of the ...
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... patients , which the patients at last find out , and then they have no patients left . During my attendance at the Windmill Street school I worked hard in the dissecting - room , and learned a good deal of anatomy . If I did so ...
... patients , which the patients at last find out , and then they have no patients left . During my attendance at the Windmill Street school I worked hard in the dissecting - room , and learned a good deal of anatomy . If I did so ...
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... patients . But Mr. Keate occupied what at that time was a very high station as surgeon - general to the army . In the time of war this was a place of great responsibility , with the disadvantage , for so it is , of a very exten- sive ...
... patients . But Mr. Keate occupied what at that time was a very high station as surgeon - general to the army . In the time of war this was a place of great responsibility , with the disadvantage , for so it is , of a very exten- sive ...
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... patient recovers and another dies , why the same kind of treatment is successful in one instance and fails in another , these , and a multitude of other matters , are quite inexpli- cable to the young student . Everything is seen - as ...
... patient recovers and another dies , why the same kind of treatment is successful in one instance and fails in another , these , and a multitude of other matters , are quite inexpli- cable to the young student . Everything is seen - as ...
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... patients in the day , and to expand them with the aid of my memory in the evening . Thus they became an exercise of the memory , and , instead of weakening , tended to strengthen that important faculty . After an experience of nearly ...
... patients in the day , and to expand them with the aid of my memory in the evening . Thus they became an exercise of the memory , and , instead of weakening , tended to strengthen that important faculty . After an experience of nearly ...
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