Book on the Physician Himself: And Things that Concern His Reputation and SuccessDavis, 1905 - 411 pages |
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... fully armed , you had better be satisfied with mediocrity , and become a modest country doctor in a less thickly settled village or town , where there is less competition and less talent to encounter ; or go to the new States and grow ...
... fully armed , you had better be satisfied with mediocrity , and become a modest country doctor in a less thickly settled village or town , where there is less competition and less talent to encounter ; or go to the new States and grow ...
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... fully qualified for success as a practitioner to throw away the best days of his life , and let slip opportunities that could never be recalled : - Too soon , too soon . The noon will be the afternoon ; Too soon to - day will be ...
... fully qualified for success as a practitioner to throw away the best days of his life , and let slip opportunities that could never be recalled : - Too soon , too soon . The noon will be the afternoon ; Too soon to - day will be ...
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... fully on his serious and puzzling cases while riding than if walking ; and when he reaches the patient he is in better mental and physical condition to begin his duties than Dr. Walker , who 36 THE PHYSICIAN HIMSELF never join a church ...
... fully on his serious and puzzling cases while riding than if walking ; and when he reaches the patient he is in better mental and physical condition to begin his duties than Dr. Walker , who 36 THE PHYSICIAN HIMSELF never join a church ...
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... fully every accidental or natural advantage of birth or wealth , or the favoritism of influential patrons , or the assistance of powerful friends , and use every other helpful wing , if honest and ethical ; and , while neither boastful ...
... fully every accidental or natural advantage of birth or wealth , or the favoritism of influential patrons , or the assistance of powerful friends , and use every other helpful wing , if honest and ethical ; and , while neither boastful ...
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... fully to satisfy him , be earnest , and let personal intentness to his case overshadow all that you say and do ; and take especial care not to divert his conversation from himself to extraneous subjects . If it be at your office , do ...
... fully to satisfy him , be earnest , and let personal intentness to his case overshadow all that you say and do ; and take especial care not to divert his conversation from himself to extraneous subjects . If it be at your office , do ...
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Page 202 - For never yet hath any one attained To such perfection, but that time, and place, And use, have brought addition to his knowledge; Or made correction, or admonished him, That he was ignorant of much which he Had thought he knew; or led him to reject What he had once esteemed of highest price.
Page 166 - O'er all those wide-extended plains Shines one eternal day; There God the Son forever reigns, And scatters night away. 4 No chilling winds, or poisonous breath, Can reach that healthful shore; Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more.
Page 40 - Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Each man makes his own stature, builds himself : Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.
Page 403 - Do all the good you can, To all the people you can, In all the ways you can, As long as ever you can.
Page 213 - Be to their faults a little blind And to their virtues very kind.
Page 81 - O unto another what you would he should do unto you. and do not unto another what you would not should be done unto you. Thou only needest this law alone, it is the foundation and principle of all the rest.
Page 353 - sequins," said a Venetian nobleman to a sculptor, "for a bust that cost you only ten days' labour."— " You forget," replied the artist, " that I have been " thirty years learning to make that bust in ten
Page 86 - A physician should never take charge of or prescribe for a patient who is under the care of another physician, except in an emergency, until after the other physician has relinquished the case or has been properly dismissed.
Page 2 - Life is a leaf of paper white Whereon each one of us may write His word or two, and then comes night. " Lo, time and space enough," we cry, " To write an epic ! " so we try Our nibs upon the edge, and die.
Page 309 - He who does not walk on exactly the same line with me, who diverges, if it be but the breadth of a straw, to the right or to the left, is an apostate and a traitor, and with him I will have nothing to do !' " Such servile following as this must be declined by every true student of nature.