The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine

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1840
 

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Seite 290 - The oracles are dumb ; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving ; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving ; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Seite 450 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine: Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially...
Seite 327 - Like one who has scattered abroad the avena falúa of knowledge, from which neither branch, nor blossom, nor fruit has resulted, I require the consolations of a friend.' Beddoes had talents which would have exalted him to the pinnacle of philosophical eminence, if they had been applied with discretion.
Seite 336 - ... have heard reports of my intended marriage. Till within the last few days it was mere report. It is, I trust, now a settled arrangement. I am the happiest of men in the hope of a union with a woman equally distinguished for virtues, talent, and accomplishments.
Seite 339 - No ! my good friend, I never thought of such a thing : my sole object was to serve the cause of humanity; and if I have succeeded, I am amply rewarded in the gratifying reflection of having done so.
Seite 331 - Sir Joseph Banks, Count Rumford, and other distinguished philosophers were present. The audience were highly gratified, and testified their satisfaction by general applause. Mr. Davy, who appears to be very young, acquitted himself admirably well ; from the sparkling intelligence of his eye, his animated manner, and the tout ensemble, we have no doubt of his attaining a distinguished eminence.
Seite 331 - The sensation created by his first course of Lectures at the Institution, and the enthusiastic admiration which they obtained, is at this period scarcely to be imagined. Men of the first rank and talent, — the literary and the scientific, the practical and the theoretical, blue-stockings, and women of fashion, the old and the young, all crowded — eagerly crowded the...
Seite 351 - Some people say I ought not to accept this prize, and there have been foolish paragraphs in the papers to that effect ; but if the two countries or governments are at war, the men of science are not. That would indeed be a civil war of the worst description ; we should rather, through the instrumentality of men of science, soften the asperities of national hostility.
Seite 287 - Members and. licentiates in surgery of any legally constituted college of surgeons in the united kingdom, and graduates in surgery of any university requiring residence to obtain degrees, will be admitted for examination on producing their diploma, licence, or degree, together with proofs of being twenty-one years of age, olid of having been occupied at least four years in the acquirement of professional knowledge.
Seite 287 - Sessions, of not less than six months each : of having attended at least two Courses of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery delivered in two distinct periods or seasons, and one Course on each of the following subjects, viz., the Practice of Physic, Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Midwifery with Practical Instruction.

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