 If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of...  Harrison's British Classicks - Page 441786Full view - About this book
 | 1888 - 516 pages
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin in people. This body of men in our time may be described like the British... | |
 | William G. Rothstein - 1992 - 390 pages
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin in people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the British... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2001 - 404 pages
...1711, 'we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.' THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE The brusque physician... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pages
...Dispensary (1699) had just proved a best-seller - and the Spectator contributed to disabusing the public: 'we may lay it down as a Maxim, that when a Nation abounds in Physicians it grows thin of People.' Physicians, Addison went on, 'may be described like the British... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2006 - 11 pages
...1711, 'we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people.'10 Two centuries later Baltimore physician Daniel Cathell, in an... | |
 | Thad M. Stevens - 1871 - 592 pages
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people." (Query : "What is to become of our unhappy country, which, according... | |
 | 1877 - 812 pages
...physic we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious ; for we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. This body of men in our own country may be described like the British... | |
 | 1862 - 156 pages
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. — Addison. HEALTHY HOMES. — Cleanliness is of the utmost importance... | |
 | 1888 - 1056 pages
...physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men ; the sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin in people. This body of men in our time may be described like the British... | |
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