Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 15

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A. and C. Black, 1819
 

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Page 290 - So he turned and went away in a rage. And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldst thou not have done it ? how much rather, then, when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean...
Page 118 - Practical Inquiry into the Causes of the frequent failure of the Operations of Depression, and of the Extraction of the Cataract, as usually performed, with the Decriptiou of a Series of New and Improved Operations, by the practice of which most of these causes of failure may be avoided.
Page 394 - For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them ; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled ; they are gone.
Page 105 - the Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions," íic. will speedily publish a -mall work entitled, the Influence of Civic Life, Sedentary Habits, and Intellectual Refinement, on Human Health and Human Happiness; including an estimate of the balance of enjoyment and suffering in the different gradations of society.
Page 590 - ... thought, in a word, all the manifestations called mental or intellectual, are the animal functions of their appropriate organic apparatus, the central organ of the nervous system.
Page 387 - Truth, in my opinion, has been improperly imagined at the bottom of a well: it lies much nearer to the surface; though buried indeed at present under mountains of learned rubbish...
Page 223 - Philosophy, wisdom, and liberty, support each other; he, who will not reason, is a bigot ; he, who cannot, is a fool ; and he, who dares not, is a slave.
Page 429 - Observations on the Utility and Administration of Purgative Medicines in several Diseases.
Page 587 - Shall I be told that thought is inconsistent with matter: that we cannot conceive how medullary substance can perceive, remember, judge, reason ? I acknowledge that we are entirely ignorant how the parts of the brain accomplish these purposes — as we are how the liver secretes bile, how the muscles contract, or how any other living purpose is effected ; — as we are how heavy bodies are attracted to the earth, how iron is drawn to the magnet, or how two salts decompose each other.
Page 394 - Because my nature was averse from life ; And yet not cruel ; for I would not make, But find a desolation : — like the wind, The red-hot breath of the most lone simoom, Which dwells but in the desert...

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