Buffalo Medical Journal and Monthly Review of Medical and Surgical Science, Volume 51849 |
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Page 83 - 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 401 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not like the...
Page 83 - 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 689 - Each State, county and district medical society entitled to representation shall have the privilege of sending to the Association one delegate for every ten of its regular resident members, and one for every additional fraction of more than half that number...
Page 579 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Page 716 - I myself have been a frequent eye-witness of many hundreds of cures performed by His Majesty's touch alone; without any assistance of chirurgery; and those many of them, such as had tired out the endeavors of able chirurgeons before they came thither.
Page 81 - ... of mind, or of an infirm bodily constitution, a child is led to seek amusement from books,- and to lose a relish for those recreations which are suited to his age. In such instances, the ordinary progress of the intellectual powers is prematurely quickened ; but that best of all...
Page 689 - Each delegate shall hold his appointment for one year, and until another is appointed to succeed him, and shall participate in all the business and affairs of the Society.
Page 90 - This affection," says he, in his admirable essay on the subject,1 " may be divided into two stages : the first, that of irritability ; the second, that of torpor. In the former there appears to be a feeble attempt at reaction ; in the latter, the powers appear to be more prostrate.
Page 398 - Upon its proper development, exercise, and cultivation, depend the happiness and higher interests of man. Insanity is but a disease of this organ, and when so regarded, it will often be prevented, and generally cured by the early adoption of proper methods of treatment.