...515. A medical man is equal in value to manjr other men. Or, as Pope has it, A wise physician, ekill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal. replied, that one must always endeavour to do good when it is in one's power. In short, I took upon...

...and we doubt much whether the Hindus of our own time are of opinion, that " A wise physician skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." The estimation in which the professors of medicine were held by the ancient Greeks is well known to...

...which tell of sin, and sorrow, and sighing. Well has it been written : " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal" 'When Sir Humphrey Davy had constructed the safetylamp which bears his name, and its use had become...

...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...

...inflict while holding a responsible position during a long series of years, daily reversing the adage, that — " A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." — It has been only with the strongest reluctance that I have brought myself " ambiguas spargere voces"...

...in such a crisis ? Truly did the poet exclaim, of the skillful Machaon: " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." POPE'S Homer's Iliad, Book xi., 636-7. The sulphur springs, at Avon, have relieved many a sufferer,...

...1vr*p yap etrop iraAxay aiTafio? «AA»r," — miserably and inequately rendered by his translator : " A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal." If we pass to the age of Henty V., and thence on, including the reign of Elizabeth — an age of midnight...

...thy chariot, hnste with spced away, And great Machaon to the ships convey: A wise physieian, skill'd ` , Old Nestor mounts the seat ; beside him rode The wounded offspring of the healing god. He lends the...

...knight the credentials which he had brought to King Eichfird on the part of Saladin. CHAPTER THE EIGHTH. A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the common weal. POPE'S Iliad. "THIS is a strange tale, Sir Thomas," said the sick monarch, when he had...

...spirits refuse to realize the forcible couplet sung of old by Homer : — " A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, Is more than armies to the public weal ;" and he looks on all attempts for his relief as " vanity and vexation of spirit." At length, by accident...