The Medical World, Volume 9

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Roy Jackson., 1891

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Page 469 - Master of human destinies am I ; Fame, Love and Fortune on my footsteps wait. Cities and fields I walk. I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate; If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate...
Page 232 - The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 89 - This species infests a great variety of plants, and is to be found throughout our country from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Page 469 - I walk; I penetrate Deserts and seas remote, and passing by Hovel and mart and palace— soon or late I knock unbidden once at every gate! If sleeping, wake — if feasting, rise before I turn away. It is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury, and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore. I answer not, and I return no more!
Page 228 - Books of the Year, etc. The arrangement of the work is alphabetical, and, with its complete index, makes it a reference book of rare worth. In short, the "Annual" is what it claims to be — a recapitulation of the year's progress in medicine, serving to keep the practitioner abreast of the times with reference to the medical literature of the world. Price, the same as in previous years — $2.75.
Page 269 - He is the flower (such as it is) of our civilisation; and when that stage of man is done with, and only remembered to be marvelled at in history, he will be thought to have shared as little as any in the...
Page 350 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made, When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents said, When, with the Baron's casque, the maid To the nigh streamlet ran.
Page 387 - MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. A Resume' of the Action and Doses of all Officinal and Non-Officinal Drugs Now in Common Use. By C. HENRI LEONARD, AM, MD, Professor of Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynaecology in the Detroit College of Medicine.
Page 469 - Teaspoonful every one, two, three, or four hours. This gives relief in a few minutes, and sometimes the relief is permanent.
Page 319 - September 24, 25 and 26, 1891, under the Presidency of -Dr. G. Betton Massey. Physicians interested in the discussion of electricity in medicine are invited to attend without further notice.

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