Elements of Medical LogickT. and G. Underwood, 1821 - 280 sidor |
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Sida 142 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Sida 1 - INTRODUCTION. As medicine has for its object the preservation and restoration of health, it comes under the definition of an ART, a term, the import of which consists in the adaptation of means to ends. These means must be derived from the previous knowledge of the changes producible by them, whether as corporeal agents constituting physical causes, or as affections of the mind, constituting moral causes.
Sida 140 - ... avail itself of its light, and partake of its benefit ; but this was so far from being the case, that, in the first instance, it proved a new source of error, and threw fresh impediments in the road which was supposed to be thrown open to the improvement of rational medicine. The discovery of the circulation of the blood may, indeed, be considered as one of the first fruits of the inquiries into nature begun in that age.
Sida 76 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Sida 159 - Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Atque metus omnes, et inexorabile fatum Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.
Sida 4 - ... so teems with the fanciful influence of superstitious observances, the imaginary virtues of medicines, with nugatory, delusive, inefficient, and capricious practices, fallacious and sophistical reasonings, as to render it little more than a chaos of error, a tissue of deceit unworthy of admission among, the useful arts and liberal pursuits of man.
Sida 3 - ... cultivating this art, must consist in ascertaining the agency of external objects, whether salutary or noxious, on the living body, and in applying or avoiding them so as to obtain the desired result, either of preventing the occurrence of disease, or in converting the state of disease into that of health. It is in the extent and correctness of our knowledge of these agencies, that the perfection of the art of physick must consist.
Sida 190 - I fire a great profusion of shot, it is very extraordinary if some do not hit the mark." Sir Gilbert Blane* has given us a similar anecdote ; " a practitioner being asked by his patient why he put so many ingredients into his prescription, is said to have answered more facetiously than philosophically, " in order that the disease may take which it likes best.
Sida 132 - Much can still be gained, no doubt, from a perusal of such works as those of Sir Gilbert Blane, Oesterlen and Ogston, and still more could doubtless be gained by the physician from a close study of John Stuart Mill...
Sida 31 - ... submits to the Profession the following, as the result of long and close meditation on the subject. They may be arranged as follows: 1. The Generative. 2. The Conservative. 3. The Temperative. 4. The Assimilative. 5. The Formative. 6. The Restorative. 7. The Motive. 8. The Sensitive. 9. The Appetitive. 10.. The Sympathetic.