Bulletin of Pharmacy, Volume 15

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1901

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Page 44 - OPPORTUNITY.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 45 - Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men...
Page 125 - tis true : 'tis true, 'tis pity ; And pity 'tis, 'tis true : a foolish figure ; But farewell it, for I will use no art. Mad let us grant him then : and now remains, That we find out the cause of this effect ; Or, rather say, the cause of this defect ; For this effect, defective, comes by cause : Thus it remains, and the remainder thus.
Page 351 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 243 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 40 - Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital...
Page 44 - 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, 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...
Page 351 - That disease over which science has since achieved a succession of glorious and beneficent victories was then the most terrible of all the ministers of death.
Page 49 - ... shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars...
Page 117 - I'm going home where they know me. No one there will count my fevered pulse in the still watches of the night. No one there will put a nice hot-water bag, that feels like a Mexican hairless dog, at my feet. Seriously, what a blessing it is, when we are weary of work, and the gastric functions go on a sympathetic strike, and the solar plexus goes away and sits down on a stone...

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