The Lancet-clinic, Volume 99

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Lancet-Clinic Publishing Company, 1908
 

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Page 487 - But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think ; 'Tis strange, the shortest letter which man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages ; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper—even a rag like this, Survives himself, his tomb, and all that's his.
Page 357 - I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns"— And if I
Page 33 - who are frequent witnesses of the great wrongs committed by charlatans, and of injury to health and even destruction of life caused by their treatments, .to enlighten the public on these subjects, and to make known the injuries sustained by the unwary from the devices and pretensions of artful impostors.
Page 318 - But none ever trembled and panted with bliss, In the garden, the field, or the wilderness, Like a doe in the noontide with love's sweet want, As the companionless Sensitive Plant.
Page 149 - majors, and 300 captains or first lieutenants, who shall have rank, pay, and allowances of officers of the corresponding grades in the cavalry. The bill is now pending before the House Committee on Military Affairs. If Speaker Cannon could be Oslerized now, this bill might come up for action during the present session of Congress.
Page 553 - You may tell me, perhaps, or think within yourselves, that the apathy with which we regard this company of the noble, who are praying us to listen to them ; and the passion with which we pursue the company, probably of the ignoble, who despise us, or who have nothing to teach us, are grounded in this: that we can see the faces of
Page 552 - a bouquet in the path of a Princess, or arresting the kind glance of a Queen. And yet these momentary chances we covet ; and spend our years and passions and powers in pursuit
Page 233 - Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, MD, Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo,
Page 256 - we advocate the organization of all existing national public health agencies into a single national health department, with such improved status and increased powers as will give the federal government the strongest possible control over all public health interests not now
Page 536 - of roses and turpentine. In the night I could not sleep in quiet, fearing some default in not cauterizing, that I should find the wounded to whom I had not used the said oil dead from the poison of their wounds, which

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