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... is no longer an epithet applied to the water cure physician by the leading members of the medical profession . One of them , a noble example of heroism and inde- pendence , has , as editor of one of our 2 THE EDITORS TO THE PUBLIC .
... is no longer an epithet applied to the water cure physician by the leading members of the medical profession . One of them , a noble example of heroism and inde- pendence , has , as editor of one of our 2 THE EDITORS TO THE PUBLIC .
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... while practising as an allopathic physician in Exeter , I was spending the summer at Vienna in order to continue my examination of homœopathy 66 21 - at Dr. Fleischmann's Hospital of Grey Sisters 4 DR . MARSDEN'S RESIDENCE AT GRAFENBERG .
... while practising as an allopathic physician in Exeter , I was spending the summer at Vienna in order to continue my examination of homœopathy 66 21 - at Dr. Fleischmann's Hospital of Grey Sisters 4 DR . MARSDEN'S RESIDENCE AT GRAFENBERG .
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... physician to do something for his patient at any rate ; but after long practice , and so frequently finding how much I injured in my endea- vours to benefit my patients , I now fully agree with Hippocrates , and say with him , ' There ...
... physician to do something for his patient at any rate ; but after long practice , and so frequently finding how much I injured in my endea- vours to benefit my patients , I now fully agree with Hippocrates , and say with him , ' There ...
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... Physicians , Edinburgh ; Member of the Edinburgh Medico - Chirurgical Society ; Physician to the Ben Rhydding Hydropathic Establish- ment , Yorkshire ; and lately Lecturer on Physiology . IT is sad to reflect on the uncertainty of the ...
... Physicians , Edinburgh ; Member of the Edinburgh Medico - Chirurgical Society ; Physician to the Ben Rhydding Hydropathic Establish- ment , Yorkshire ; and lately Lecturer on Physiology . IT is sad to reflect on the uncertainty of the ...
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... physician is no criterion either as to his skill or his talents ? The judge on the bench , the advocate of high standing at the bar - these must be men of talent to retain their name and their position . It is quite otherwise , however ...
... physician is no criterion either as to his skill or his talents ? The judge on the bench , the advocate of high standing at the bar - these must be men of talent to retain their name and their position . It is quite otherwise , however ...
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Page 69 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
Page 121 - Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses ; And then in haste her bower she leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead.
Page 130 - ... its stains. One o'clock! Nay, then, if the dinner-bell begins to speak, I may as well hold my peace. Here comes a pretty young girl of my acquaintance, with a large stone pitcher for me to fill. • May she draw a husband while drawing her water, as Rachel did of old. Hold out your vessel, my dear! There it is, full to the brim; so now run home, peeping at your sweet image in the pitcher as you go, and forget not, in a glass of my own liquor, to drink — "SUCCESS TO THE TOWN PUMP!
Page 126 - I am the chief person of the municipality, and exhibit, moreover, an admirable pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, steady, upright, downright, and impartial discharge of my business, and the constancy with which I stand to my post. Summer or winter, nobody seeks me in vain ; for, all day long, I am seen at the busiest corner, just above the market, stretching out my arms to rich and poor alike ; and at night I hold a lantern over my head, both to show where I am, and to keep people out of...
Page 128 - The water is as pure and cold as that which slaked the thirst of the red sagamore beneath the aged boughs, though now the gem of the wilderness is treasured under these hot stones, where no shadow falls but from the brick buildings. And be it the moral of my story, that, as this wasted and long-lost fountain is now known and prized again, so shall the virtues of cold water, too little valued since your fathers
Page 329 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Page 128 - Well, well, sir — no harm done, I hope ! Go draw the cork, tip the decanter ; but when your great toe shall set you a-roaring, it will be no affair of mine. If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout, it is all one to the Town Pump. This thirsty dog, with his red tongue lolling out, does not scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs, and laps eagerly out of the trough.
Page 76 - Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
Page 76 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Page 329 - Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment...