Counsels and ideals from the writings of William OslerHoughton, Mifflin & Company, 1905 - 277 pages |
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... cultivated physician in society as that given in Plato's Dialogues of Eryximachus , himself the son of a physician , Acumenus . In that most brilliant age the physician was the companion and friend , and in intellectual intercourse the ...
... cultivated physician in society as that given in Plato's Dialogues of Eryximachus , himself the son of a physician , Acumenus . In that most brilliant age the physician was the companion and friend , and in intellectual intercourse the ...
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... cultivated gentleman . 23 the la- The most distinguishing feature of the scientific Experi- medicine of the century ( nineteenth ) has been the ments in phenomenal results which have followed experi- boratory . mental investigation ...
... cultivated gentleman . 23 the la- The most distinguishing feature of the scientific Experi- medicine of the century ( nineteenth ) has been the ments in phenomenal results which have followed experi- boratory . mental investigation ...
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... cultivated as a science and promoted as an art . Wealthy men felt that in no better way could they contribute to the progress of the race than by the establishment of laboratories for the study of disease , and hospitals for the care of ...
... cultivated as a science and promoted as an art . Wealthy men felt that in no better way could they contribute to the progress of the race than by the establishment of laboratories for the study of disease , and hospitals for the care of ...
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... cultivated intelligence and lively sensibilities : to have written all the plays which Shakespeare has left as an inheritance for mankind , or to have snatched from the jaws of death more than a hun- dred fellow creatures , and restored ...
... cultivated intelligence and lively sensibilities : to have written all the plays which Shakespeare has left as an inheritance for mankind , or to have snatched from the jaws of death more than a hun- dred fellow creatures , and restored ...
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... cultivation of their works . Many of you will need a strong leaven to raise you above the dough in which it will be your lot to labour . Uncongenial surroundings , an ever - present dissonance between the aspirations within and the ...
... cultivation of their works . Many of you will need a strong leaven to raise you above the dough in which it will be your lot to labour . Uncongenial surroundings , an ever - present dissonance between the aspirations within and the ...
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Page 111 - For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it...
Page 122 - He that soweth little shall reap little; and he that soweth plenteously shall reap plenteously. Let every man do according as he is disposed in his heart, not grudgingly, or of necessity; for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 77 - Osiris, took the virgin Truth, hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds. From that time ever since, the sad friends of Truth, such as durst appear, imitating the careful search that Isis made for the mangled body of Osiris, went up and down gathering up limb by limb still as they could find them.
Page 253 - Mercury : — let us not therefore go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like, buzzing here and there impatiently from a knowledge of what is to be arrived at. But let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive...
Page 201 - He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool; shun him.
Page 231 - Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Page 209 - Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
Page 39 - The woman about to become a mother, or with her new-born infant upon her bosom, should be the object of trembling care and sympathy wherever she bears her tender burden, or stretches her aching limbs.
Page 126 - That Light whose smile kindles the Universe, That Beauty in which all things work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love Which through the web of being blindly wove By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me, Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality.
Page 40 - Whatever indulgence may be granted to those who have heretofore been the ignorant causes of so much misery, the time has come when the existence of a private pestilence in the sphere of a single physician should be looked upon, not as a misfortune, but a crime...