Medical Times, Volume 28J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1853 |
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Page 282 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 43 - I think the system of education that could leave the mental condition of the public body in the state in which this subject has found it, must have been greatly deficient in some very important principle.
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Page 289 - Wales can give his apprentice a legal title to examination, unless he is himself legally qualified to practise as an Apothecary, either by having been in practice prior to or on the 1st of August, 1815, or by having received a certificate of his qualification from the Court of Examiners. An apprenticeship for not less than five years to Surgeons practising as Apothecaries in Ireland and Scotland...
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Page 48 - The subject having been placed as in the lateral operation, a staff is introduced into the bladder, and given to an assistant, who is directed to hold it in a vertical direction, so that the groove should correspond exactly with the mesial line. The index finger of the left hand is introduced into the rectum, the palmar surface being turned forwards. Upon its flat surface a straight bistoury is inserted to a depth of eighteen millimetres (about nine line«) from the margin of the anus.
Page 42 - ... presence they have always done — that it tells truly whether they are pressing downwards only or obliquely, then all effects of table-turning cease, even though the parties persevere, earnestly desiring motion, till they become weary and worn out. No prompting or checking of the hands is needed — the power is gone ; and this only because the parties are made conscious of what they are really doing mechanically, and so are unable unwittingly to deceive themselves.