The Medical and Physical Journal, Volume 27R. Phillips, 1812 |
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Page 503 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 297 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Page 269 - Mrs. Healde became a pensioner on the society for the relief of the widows and orphans of medical men, and thenceforward for many years acted in the capacity of midwife.
Page 503 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Page 145 - Of New And Valuable Plants Of The West Indies And North and South America. Also Of Several Others, Natives Of Africa And The East Indies: Arranged after the Linnaean System.
Page 182 - This name has been given to an inflammation of the glottis, larynx, or upper part of the trachea, whether it affect the membranes of these parts, or the muscles adjoining. It may arise first in these parts, and continue to subsist in them alone; or it may come to affect these parts, from the cynanche tonsillaris or maligna spreading into them.
Page 348 - Transactions of a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge.
Page 301 - Lambe's theory of constitutional diseases appears to point, it will then, and not till then, be explained how man, in quitting the nutriment on which alone nature had destined him to enjoy a state of perfect health, has debased his physical, and consequently his moral and intellectual faculties, to a degree almost inconceivable. .Real men have never been seen that we are aware of, nor has history, nor even poetry, depictured them. It is not man we have before us, but the wreck of man.