 I remember calling the Voltaire of pelvic literature, — a skeptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would have submitted Diana to treatment with his mineral specifics, and ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins.  MEDICAL ESSAYS - Page 437by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMS - 1891Full view - About this book
 | 1907 - 690 pages
...mentions also the vivacious Ricord, whom he called the " Voltaire of Pelvic literature ; a skeptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would...ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins." His time was not spent altogether in work, for he speaks of quite a list of renowned actors and singers... | |
 | Fielding Hudson Garrison - 1913 - 922 pages
...his specialty. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes styled him "the Voltaire of pelvic literature — a skeptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would...ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins." Modern dermatology derives from the work of Willan, and his pupil Bateman, as continued and carried... | |
 | Fielding Hudson Garrison - 1913 - 772 pages
...his specialty. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes styled him "the Voltaire of pelvic literature — a skeptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would...ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins." Modern dermatology derives from the work of Willan, and his pupil Bateman, as continued and carried... | |
 | Loyd Thompson - 1916 - 444 pages
...Bell: Treatise on Gonorrhea Virulenta and lues Venerea, Edinburgh, 1793, ii. literature — a skeptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would...ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins." This great syphilologist, by over 2500 inoculations, proved conclusively the duality of syphilis and... | |
 | 1920 - 836 pages
...(1799-1889), the authority of his day on syphilis: "The Voltaire of pelvic literature — a skeptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would...ordered a course of blue pills for the Vestal Virgins." The cause of syphilis was then unknown; the cause of gonorrhoea had been discovered; but in 1905 Schaudin... | |
 | 1925 - 624 pages
...pelvic literature, a sceptic of the race in general, who would have submitted Diana to treatment by mineral specifics and ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins. Ricord first described the three stages of syphilis and differentiated it from gonorrhoea. He wrote more voluminously... | |
 | 1884 - 738 pages
...sceptic as to the morality of the race in general, who would have submitted Diana to treatment with his specifics, and ordered a course of blue pills for the vestal virgins." THE royal borough of Windsor is reported by the British Medical Journal to possess at the present time... | |
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