The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 27

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Samuel Highley, 1861 - Medicine

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Page 95 - He is traduced and abused for his supposed motives. He will remember, that obloquy is a necessary ingredient in the composition of all true glory : he will remember that it was not only in the Roman customs, but it is in the nature and constitution of things, that calumny and abuse are essential parts of triumph.
Page 322 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Page 80 - Under this tomb the matchless DIGBY lies, DIGBY the great, the valiant, and the wise, This age's wonder for his noble parts, Skilled in six tongues and learned in all the arts...
Page 85 - Now you are here,' said the patient, • I shall be obliged to you, Sir Richard, if you will tell me how I must live, what I may eat, and what not.' My directions as to that point,' replied Sir Richard,
Page 29 - Nothing can be more clear than that it is the duty of the patient to co-operate with his professional adviser and to conform to the necessary prescriptions, but if he will not, or under the pressure of pain cannot, his neglect is his own wrong or misfortune, for which he has no right to hold his surgeon responsible.
Page 465 - She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat, like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 235 - During sleep the brain is in a comparatively bloodless condition, and the blood in the encephalic vessels is not only diminished in quantity, but moves with diminished rapidity.
Page ii - Tobacco : Its History and Associations ; with an Account of the Plant and its Manufacture, and its Modes of Use in all Ages and Countries. By F. W. FAIRHOLT, FSA With Coloured Frontispiece and upwards of 100 Illustrations by the Author.
Page 30 - He is not responsible for want of success, unless it is proved to result from want of ordinary skill, or from want of ordinary care and attention.
Page 22 - I feel that we are fighting the battle of life at disadvantage, and that an Arctic night and an Arctic day age a man more rapidly and harshly than a year anywhere else in all this weary world.

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