The Woman's Medical Journal, Volume 21

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Recorder Publishing Company, 1911
 

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Page 133 - 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,...
Page 242 - So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife, loveth himself; for no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church ; for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Page 236 - Our revels now are ended: these our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherits, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind; we are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep!
Page 277 - American Illustrated Medical Dictionary. A new and complete dictionary of terms used in medicine, surgery, dentistry, pharmacy, chemistry, veterinary medicine, nursing, biology and kindred branches, with new and elaborate tables.
Page 99 - Although every physician has read the Oath of Hippocrates it is of so great an historical and archaeological value that we are sure our readers will be interested in a translation of a Latin version made by John Young, Keeper of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. "I swear by Apollo, the physician, and Aesculapius and Hygeia and Panacea, and I call to witness all the gods and goddesses...
Page 206 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that, as a mechanism, it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine, with all its parts of equal strength, and in smooth working order; ready, like a steam engine, to be turned to any kind of work...
Page 205 - A PRACTICAL MEDICAL DICTIONARY of Words used in Medicine with Their Derivation and Pronunciation, Including Dental, Veterinary, Chemical, Botanical, Electrical, Life Insurance and Other Special Terms; Anatomical Tables of the Titles in General Use, and Those Sanctioned by the Basle Anatomical Convention; Pharmaceutical Preparations, Official in the...
Page 277 - Every word has a separate paragraph, thus making it easy to find a word quickly. The tables of arteries, muscles, nerves, veins, etc. , are of the greatest help in assembling anatomic facts. In them are classified for quick study all the necessary information about the various structures.
Page 265 - The physician must be experienced in many things," says Hippocrates, " but assuredly also in rubbing; for things that have the same name have not always the same effects. For rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose and loosen a joint that is too rigid.
Page 153 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.

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