Medical Botany; a Course of LecturesFord, 1851 - 223 pages |
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Page 93 - is a disease that affects the whole system ; it affects the head, the trunk of the body, and the extremities ; it affects the circulation, the absorption, and the nervous system ; it affects the skin, the muscular fibres, and the membranes; it affects the body and likewise the mind.
Page 25 - that is impossible, for I cannot relinquish my employment; and you know, Sir, it is impossible to work without some support" Mr. Hunter perceiving that his patient was not likely to be readily convinced, enquired how many acres of land he cultivated, and what number of them was arable? He next asked, how many horses were kept upon the farm ? and then boldly asserted, that they were too few in number for the quantity of land. The farmer maintained that they were sufficient, but was at length brought...
Page 117 - Man's rich with little, were his judgment true; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few; Those few wants answer'd, bring sincere delights, But fools create themselves new appetites.
Page 93 - is a disease that affects the whole system ; it affects the head, the trunk of the body, and the extremities ; it affects the circulation, the absorption, and the nervous system; it affects the skin, the muscular fibres, and the membranes; it affects the body, and affects likewise the mind. It is, therefore, a disease of the whole system in every kind of sense. It...
Page xiii - Thousands are annually slaughtered in the quiet of the sick-room. ' Governments should at once either banish medical men, and proscribe their blundering art, or they should adopt some better means to protect the lives of the people than at present prevail, when they look far less after the practice of this dangerous profession, and the murders committed in it, than after the lowest trades.
Page 25 - 1 assure you that I am a very temperate man ; I scarcely ever exceed three pints of ale in the day, and I never touch spirits." " But," said Mr. Hunter, " you must now drink nothing except water." " Sir," said the farmer, " that is impossible, for I cannot relinquish my employment ; and you know, Sir, it is impossible to work without some support." Mr. Hunter perceiving that his patient was not likely to be readily convinced, enquired how many acres of land he cultivated, and...
Page 148 - ... oxygen is absorbed from the atmosphere. Further, for every volume of oxygen absorbed, an equal volume of carbonic acid is, in most cases, given out.
Page 59 - Nothing hath got so far, But Man hath caught and kept it, as his prey. His eyes dismount the highest star: He is in little all the sphere. Herbs gladly cure our flesh, because that they Find their acquaintance there.
Page 204 - ... frequent but weak and fluttering pulse. When the disease is not violent, these symptoms, after continuing for a day or two, cease gradually, leaving the patient in a debilitated and exhausted state ; but where the disease proceeds with much violence...
Page 160 - By what infernal subtlety hast thou contrived hitherto to baffle the profoundest skill of science, to frustrate utterly the uses of experience, and disclose thyself only when thou hast irretrievably secured thy victim, and thy fangs are crimsoned with its blood? Destroying angel! why art thou commissioned thus to smite down the first-born of agonised humanity ? What are the strange purposes of Providence, that thus letteth thee loose upon the objects of its infinite goodness!