The Medical Fortnightly, Volumes 27-28

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1905

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Page 249 - This above all : to thine ownself be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 249 - LAERTES' head. And these few precepts in thy memory Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd, comrade.
Page 192 - There never has been a time in the history of the world when the Church has furnished adequate secular education.
Page 38 - A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, MD, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia.
Page 198 - skilled experts come with such a bias on their minds to support the cause in which they are embarked that hardly any weight should be given to their evidence.
Page 297 - Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea. I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For, lo! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays, For what avails this eager pace? I stand amid the eternal ways And what Is mine shall know my face. Asleep, awake, by night or day, The friends I seek are seeking me; No wind can drive my bark astray, Nor change the tide of destiny. What matter If I stand alone?
Page 420 - Laryngology, Hygiene, and Other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners. By Leading Members of the Medical Profession throughout the World.
Page 419 - THE INFECTION OF YELLOW FEVER IS CARRIED BY MOSQUITOES, AND BY NO OTHER MEANS IS THE INFECTION SPREAD. PERSONS TAKE THE DISEASE BY BEING BITTEN BY MOSQUITOES THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY BITTEN A YELLOW-FEVER PATIENT. THE MOSQUITOES TO BECOME INFECTED MUST BITE A YELLOW-FEVER PATIENT DURING THE FIRST THREE DAYS OF HIS ATTACK.
Page 405 - On this subject one cannot escape the bold work and bolder thought of Metchnikoff, and I quote at once his description of the degenerations of age: "In senile atrophy the same condition is always present : the atrophy of the higher and specific cells of the tissue and their replacement by hypertrophied connective tissue.
Page 248 - All things are double, one against another. Tit for tat; an eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth; blood for blood; measure for measure; love for love. Give, and it shall be given you. He that watereth shall be watered himself. What will you have? quoth God. Pay for it and take it.

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