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Page xii
... and to be read still , as its worth , like that of nature , never grows old , naturam non pati senium . We would advise every young physician who is in prac- · nature , that all our therapeutic intentions and means must xii Preface .
... and to be read still , as its worth , like that of nature , never grows old , naturam non pati senium . We would advise every young physician who is in prac- · nature , that all our therapeutic intentions and means must xii Preface .
Page xvii
... practice and say he has never been guilty of an error . " This is the main haunt and region of his craft . This it is that makes the rational practitioner . Here again , as is that we have given up the good of the Preface . xvii.
... practice and say he has never been guilty of an error . " This is the main haunt and region of his craft . This it is that makes the rational practitioner . Here again , as is that we have given up the good of the Preface . xvii.
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... never wastes a word , or a drop of ink , or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest , exactest , truest , immediatest , safest intellect , dedicated by its pos- sessor to the surgical cure of mankind , I have ever yet met with . He ...
... never wastes a word , or a drop of ink , or a drop of blood ; and his is the strongest , exactest , truest , immediatest , safest intellect , dedicated by its pos- sessor to the surgical cure of mankind , I have ever yet met with . He ...
Page xxx
... never seen his perspicacity equalled ; his mental eye is achromatic , and admits into the judging mind a pure white light , and re- cords an undisturbed , uncoloured image , undimin- ished and unenlarged in its passage ; and he has the ...
... never seen his perspicacity equalled ; his mental eye is achromatic , and admits into the judging mind a pure white light , and re- cords an undisturbed , uncoloured image , undimin- ished and unenlarged in its passage ; and he has the ...
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... never forget . Let me give another pleasant story of Dr. Black and Sir Adam , which our Principal ( Dr. Lee ) delights to tell ; it is merely its bones . The doctor sent him to the bank for £ 5 - four in notes , and one in silver ; then ...
... never forget . Let me give another pleasant story of Dr. Black and Sir Adam , which our Principal ( Dr. Lee ) delights to tell ; it is merely its bones . The doctor sent him to the bank for £ 5 - four in notes , and one in silver ; then ...
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