Twelve Catholic Men of ScienceCatholic Truth Society, 1912 - 246 pages |
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Page 97 - ... was not a little surprised and pleased, to find that I could thereby perceive the action of the heart in a manner much more clear and distinct, than I had ever been able to do by the immediate application of the ear. From this moment, I imagined...
Page 198 - Truly, there does not exist in the entire world any individual to whom the medical sciences owe more than they do to you. Your researches on fermentation have thrown a powerful beam, which has lightened the baleful darkness of surgery, and has transformed the treatment of wounds from a matter of uncertain and too often disastrous empiricism into a scientific art of sure beneficence. Thanks to you. surgery has undergone a complete revolution, which has deprived it of its terrors and has extended almost...
Page 191 - I wait, I watch, I question it, begging it to recommence for me the beautiful spectacle of the first creation. But it is dumb, dumb since these experiments were begun several years ago ; it is dumb because I have kept it from the only thing man...
Page 212 - There are two men in each of us : the scientist — he who starts with a clear field and desires to rise to the knowledge of Nature, through observation, experiment, and reasoning ; and the man of sentiment, the man of belief...
Page 15 - I have lost little in not going to Italy. When Colet speaks I might be listening to Plato. Linacre [Henry VIII.'s famous physician afterwards] is as deep and acute a thinker as I have ever met with. Grocyn is a mine of knowledge, and Nature never formed a sweeter and happier disposition than that of Thomas More.
Page 97 - Immediately, on this suggestion, I rolled a quire of paper into a kind of cylinder and applied one end of it to the region of the heart and the other to my ear, and was not a little surprised and pleased to find that I could thereby perceive the action of the heart in a mann.er much more clear and distinct than I had ever been able to do by the immediate application of the ear.
Page 191 - I have taken my drop of water from the immensity of creation, and I have taken it full of the elements appropriated to the development of inferior beings. And I wait, I watch. I question it, begging it to recommence for me the beautiful spectacle of the first creation. But it is dumb, dumb...
Page 97 - I have been able to deduce a set of new signs of diseases of the chest, for the most part certain, simple and prominent, and calculated, perhaps, to render the diagnosis of the diseases of the lungs, heart and pleura as decided and circumstantial as the indications furnished to the surgeon by the introduction of the finger or sound, in the complaints wherein these are used.
Page 14 - Colet," says her favourite, Erasmus1, in whose visits at Stepney she took rare delight, "a matron of singular piety; she had by the same husband eleven sons and as many daughters, all of which hopeful brood was snatched away from her, except her eldest son; and she lost her husband, far advanced in years. She herself being come to her ninetieth year, looked so smooth and was so cheerful that you would think she had never shed a tear, nor brought a child into the world ; and (if I mistake not) she...
Page 97 - The other method just mentioned being rendered inadmissible by the age and sex of the patient, I happened to recollect a simple and well-known fact in acoustics, and fancied at the same time, that it might be turned to some use on the present occasion. The fact I allude to is the augmented impression of sound when conveyed through certain solid bodies, as when we hear the scratch of a pin at one end of a piece of wood, on applying our ear to the other. Immediately, on...