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Page 216 - The vulgar notion, that the safe methods on political subjects are those of Baconian induction — that the true guide is not general reasoning, but specific experience — will one day be quoted as among the most unequivocal marks of a low state of the speculative faculties in any age in which it is accredited.
Page 15 - Hilton is of the greatest interest, namely, that " the same trunks of nerves whose branches supply the groups of muscles moving a joint, furnish also a distribution of nerves to the skin over the insertion of the same muscles, and the interior of the joint receives its nerves from the same source.
Page 66 - King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland with respect to the Election of its Fellows.
Page 48 - England, a medical practitioner of thirty-two years' standing, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries of London, and the testimony of the defendant's mother.
Page 15 - On the Influence of Mechanical and Physiological Rest in the Treatment of Accidents and Surgical Diseases, and the Diagnostic Value of Pain.
Page 89 - ... 2. That the retention, for any lengthened period, of refuse and excreta in privy -cesspits, or in cesspools, or at stables, cow-sheds, slaughter-houses, or other places in the midst of towns, must be utterly condemned...
Page 275 - All this is quite just — and no mortal can blame it; If they save a man's life, they've a right to proclaim it : But there's reason to think they might save more lives still. Did they publish a list of the numbers they kill...
Page 125 - ... the same power of personal inspection and detention. For stamping out the disease in towns and cities, their boards of health must have plenary powers of an absolute character over syphilis; not more so, however, than they now possess over smallpox. Thus you see that I would simply include syphilis in the great family of contagious or communicable diseases, and make it subject to the same laws and regulations that we already possess for their management. Do this, and we cannot be accused of licensing...
Page 216 - Anything like a scientific use of the method of experiment in these complicated cases is therefore out of the question. We can, in the most favorable cases, only discover, by a succession of trials, that a certain cause is very often followed by a certain effect.
Page 152 - ... researches have proved that the germinal matter is capable of resisting destructive influences, particularly those of high temperature, which are absolutely fatal to the bacteria themselves. Germs have given place to things which are ultra-microscopical — to molecular aggregates — of which all that we can say is, what we have already said about the ferments : that they occupy the border-land between living and nonliving things.