The Study of Medicine, Volume 4Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 - Medicine |
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Page 83
... cured , if he happened to be angry , or if he had drank more than he was accustomed to do , he ob- served , in his left side , a tendency to his former aliena- tion " * . 66 How wit or shrewdness of remark may exist with little ...
... cured , if he happened to be angry , or if he had drank more than he was accustomed to do , he ob- served , in his left side , a tendency to his former aliena- tion " * . 66 How wit or shrewdness of remark may exist with little ...
Page 104
... cured when produced by acci- dental causes . Hence the frequent and easy cure of the attack on its commencement , will often work its own cure by its own ardour ; and will gradually soften into a soberer state from mere mental fatigue ...
... cured when produced by acci- dental causes . Hence the frequent and easy cure of the attack on its commencement , will often work its own cure by its own ardour ; and will gradually soften into a soberer state from mere mental fatigue ...
Page 105
... cure is by no means to be chance be- despaired of . Compa- yond this term small . process of two kinds : The treatment of ecphronia has generally been dis- Curative cussed under the two heads of MEDICAL and MORAL . Both have undergone a ...
... cure is by no means to be chance be- despaired of . Compa- yond this term small . process of two kinds : The treatment of ecphronia has generally been dis- Curative cussed under the two heads of MEDICAL and MORAL . Both have undergone a ...
Page 112
... cure a frozen limb by pouring boiling water upon it , or to teach the optics of Newton in a nursery . be derived from such means . Advantage derived from mind from all former scenes and connexions . Yet in a few instances , and at par ...
... cure a frozen limb by pouring boiling water upon it , or to teach the optics of Newton in a nursery . be derived from such means . Advantage derived from mind from all former scenes and connexions . Yet in a few instances , and at par ...
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... cure of melancholy + . Has been of wonder- ful cures . Exempli- fied . ẞ E. ento- nicum Phil- autiæ . able self- conceit . Descrip- tion . In the SECOND VARIETY we have noticed the predomi- nance of SELF - CONCEIT . The ordinary feeling ...
... cure of melancholy + . Has been of wonder- ful cures . Exempli- fied . ẞ E. ento- nicum Phil- autiæ . able self- conceit . Descrip- tion . In the SECOND VARIETY we have noticed the predomi- nance of SELF - CONCEIT . The ordinary feeling ...
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Page 85 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Page 83 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 407 - This is one of the most common, as well as one of the most important machine tools, and one which can be made to serve for a wide variety of operations.
Page 53 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by LOVE'S own hand ; by LOVE Himself in love.
Page 582 - But, see, his face is black, and full of blood ; His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling : His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued.
Page 68 - When we set before our eyes a round globe of any uniform colour, vg, gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex...
Page 138 - An only son of a weak and indulgent mother was encouraged in the gratification of every caprice and passion of which an untutored and violent temper was susceptible. The impetuosity of his disposition increased with his years. The money with which he was lavishly supplied removed every obstacle to the indulgence of his wild desires. Every instance of opposition or resistance roused him to acts of fury. He assaulted his...
Page 68 - ... with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex bodies are wont to make in us, what alterations are made in the reflections of light by the difference of the sensible figures of bodies, the judgment presently, by an habitual custom, alters the appearances into their causes ; so that from that which...
Page 585 - The infusion of tobacco when injected into the intestine, and the upas antiar when applied to a wound, have the power of rendering the heart insensible to the stimulus of the blood, thus stopping the circulation ; in other words, they occasion syncope. 3.
Page 602 - Dr Solander, who had more than once crossed the mountains which divide Sweden from Norway, well knew that extreme cold, especially when joined with fatigue, produces a torpor and sleepiness that are almost irresistible: He therefore conjured the company to keep moving, whatever pain it might cost them, and whatever relief they might be promised by an inclination to rest: Whoever sits down, says he, will sleep; and whoever sleeps, will wake no more.