 If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of...  American Medicine - Page 2321921Full view - About this book
 | 1909 - 488 pages
...Homoeopathy," by William Sharp, MD, FRS, Rugby, May 5, 1834. 'Sharp's Tracts. Reply, p. 12. March 24, 1710), "we may lay it -down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people." We would think that with such facts before them, there would result a radical departure from the prevailing... | |
 | 1888 - 516 pages
...we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin in people. This body of men in our time may be described like the British army in Cresar's time —... | |
 | William G. Rothstein - 1992 - 390 pages
...we shall find a most formidable body of men; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin in people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the British army in Caesar's time... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2001 - 404 pages
...'we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.' THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE The brusque physician on the right is a caricature by... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...Dispensary (1699) had just proved a best-seller - and the Spectator contributed to disabusing the public: 'we may lay it down as a Maxim, that when a Nation abounds in Physicians it grows thin of People.' Physicians, Addison went on, 'may be described like the British Army in Caesar's time: Some of them... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2006 - 11 pages
...'we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.'10 Two centuries later Baltimore physician Daniel Cathell, in an 1882 work aimed at fellow... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1859 - 752 pages
...die of disease. The orthodox fashion is to die of the doctor.' " Addison, in the Spectator, said : ' We may lay it down as a maxim, that, when a nation...grows thin of people. . . . This body of men in our country may be described like the British army in Caesar's time : some of them slay in chariots and... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1922 - 756 pages
...a paragraph expressing his views of Medicine and physicians. The following is of special interest : We may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds...grows thin of people. . . . This body of men in our country may be described like the British army in Caesar's time. Some of them slay in chariots and... | |
 | 1862 - 156 pages
...we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. — Addison. HEALTHY HOMES. — Cleanliness is of the utmost importance in the prevention and cure... | |
 | 1884 - 278 pages
...of their medical advisers, as well as to their confidence in the curative art, Addison insists that we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. He compares them to an army in Caesar's time — some of them slay in chariots, and some on foot ;... | |
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