 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
 | 1884 - 278 pages
...of their medical advisers, as well as to their confidence in the curative art, Addison insists that we may lay it down as a maxim that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people. He compares them to an army in Caesar's time — some of them slay... | |
 | George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman - 1922 - 756 pages
...a paragraph expressing his views of Medicine and physicians. The following is of special interest : 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 country may be described like the... | |
 | 1921 - 786 pages
...AMERICAN MEDICINE geon buries his mistakes.' Acldison in The Spectator, thought it good humor to write: '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... | |
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