The American Magazine: Devoted to Homoeopathy and Hydropathy : Containing Also Popular Articles on Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, and Dietetics, 第 1 卷

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J. Hall., 1851
 

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第 366 頁 - A woman in the country, who was employed as washerwoman and nurse, washed the linen of one who had died of puerperal fever ; the next lying-in patient she nursed died of the same disease ; a third nursed by her met with the same fate, till the neighborhood, getting afraid of her, ceased to employ her.
第 111 頁 - ... and have handed down to others, all passions are raised against him, and every effort is made to crush him. People resist with all their might ; they act as if they neither heard nor could comprehend ; they speak of the new view with contempt, as if it were not worth the trouble of even so much as an investigation or a regard, and thus a new truth may wait a long time before it can make its way.
第 63 頁 - Griffin, it was resolved, that the thanks of this convention be tendered to the President and Managers of the Franklin Institute, for their liberal proposition.
第 39 頁 - Contemporaries are seldom grateful to discoverers. More than one instance is on record, in which a man has injured his fortune and lost his happiness through the elucidation and establishment of a truth which has given him immortality. It may be that there are physical truths yet to be brought to light, to say nothing of new applications of old truths, which, if they could be announced and demonstrated to day, would be the ruin of the discoverer. It is certain that there are moral truths to be discovered,...
第 134 頁 - ... pressure of the uterus, as if it would be forced out at the vulva, and in consequence the patient is obliged to lie in bed for some days ; and when there are incidental paroxysms of acute pain in either ovary ; this remedy is almost specific. Two grains of the third trituration may be dissolved in half a glass of water and a teaspoonful of the solution given every one to three or more hours. Or it may be given in small powders dry upon the tongue. In some cases, however, there is such a susceptibility...
第 114 頁 - Hahnemann is one of the most accomplished and scientific physicians of the present age." Dr. Uwins and Mr. Kingdon of London, considered that Hahnemann was worthy of the thanks of the profession, for his unwearied industry in ascertaining the properties of medicines. Dr. Sigmond speaks of him as a man of high intellectual attainments, of great sagacity, of inflexible courage, and of unwearied industry. Dr. Forbes bears a similar testimony, and we are inclined to think that the evidence of these gentlemen...
第 160 頁 - Article II should be interpreted broadly, under the maxim of Jefferson, that "error of opinion may be safely tolerated, when reason is left free to combat it.
第 115 頁 - ... a mutual friend ; their worthy host's hospitality had the effect of somewhat dispelling the frigidity of the worthy alloeopath, who, after dinner, accosted his erring brother, and asked him for an inspection of his pocket medicine case: it was immediately handed to him. Selecting the tube labelled nux vomica, he had the hardihood to pour the contents into his palm and swallowed them, looking for the approving smiles of the assembled guests. This was too good an incident to be lost, we in our...
第 338 頁 - A quiet, dignified, gentlemanlike bearing will only show our consciousness of strength ; for where there is consciousness of strength, there is repose. For me, I confess, that as far as I can see, there is much less to fear from others than ourselves. I laugh at the idea of Halls and Colleges coercing opinion in the present day — coercing opinion on matters, too, of medicine — of medicine, that never yet has had a fixed belief — that is, or ought to be, a thing of progress — and that only...
第 252 頁 - under the empire of the laws of science." In speaking of this "novel" method, he says: "Instead of its being performed by extension and counter -extension, it is done by a compound movement. The patient must be placed upon a table, upon the floor or a bed, upon his back ; then the practitioner seizes the dislocated leg, and flexes or bends it a little, taking hold principally of the knee with one hand, and the ankle with the other. After having very...

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