| Homerus - 1874 - 494 pages
...thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey ; A wise physician skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Old Nestor mounts the seat ; beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god. He lends the... | |
| James Mason - 1875 - 674 pages
...ornaments — England one of her most devoted patriots. CHAPTER XV. GREAT TRIUMPHS OF GREAT PHYSICIANS. ' A wise physician skilled our wounds to heal. Is more than armies to the public weal. ' — POPE. THOMAS LINACRE — WILLIAM HARVEY — SIR THOMAS BROWNE — THOMAS SYDENHAM — RADCLIFFE—... | |
| 1877 - 634 pages
...this paper read. It must lave reminded some of you of a couplet in Homer's Iliad, thus ranslated : — A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies in the common- weal. I mean, that electricity is now so pressed into the service of railways, that... | |
| Homer - 1877 - 558 pages
...thy chariot, haste with spee'd away, And great Machaon to the ships convey. A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Old Nestor mounts the seat. Beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god. He lends the... | |
| Elisha Bartlett - 1878 - 86 pages
...benefits to the race than those events which come heralded with more noise, but less real worth. " A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Let me, therefore, present the name of a Rhode Island scholar for emulation—a man who, while he possessed... | |
| 1878 - 900 pages
...majority of cases, in supplying these ? The opinion is as old as Homer himself, who asserted U, that. " A wise Physician, skilled our wounds to heal Is more than armies to the public wea!." And in our day, what army marches, what navy sails, what hospital is located, or what criminal... | |
| James Casey - 1879 - 132 pages
...; Who well deserves e'en greater, higher, praise Than that bestowed in Homer's deathless lays — " A wise physician skilled, our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal ;" But better still is he who shows the ills Of horrid drink, and all the graves it fills. Our drinking songs... | |
| William Tod Helmuth - 1879 - 132 pages
...of the former : " Ascend thy chariot, haste with speed away, And great Machaon to the ships convey ; A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." Patroclus was another surgeon of antiquity, and one most decidedly of the military order ; his exploits... | |
| R. H. Andrews - 1919 - 350 pages
...To know materia medica is to be a physician, to be a physician is to know how to //,'.// the sick. "A wise physician skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." ELI G. JONES, MD 1331 Main Street, Buffalo, NY A MAN WITH A NEW THOUGHT EDITOR MEDICAL SUMMARY: It... | |
| 1879 - 92 pages
...believe it has often been with total abstinence. " — Rev. Canon Fleming. THE i. WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY. 'A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." — Anon. HERE is no greater cause of evil, moral or physical, in this country, than the use of alcoholic... | |
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