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Страница 26 - For true philosophers, who are only eager for truth and knowledge, never regard themselves as already so thoroughly informed, but that they welcome further information from whomsoever and from whencesoever it may come; nor are they so narrow-minded as to imagine any of the arts or sciences transmitted to us by the ancients, in such a state of forwardness or completeness, that nothing is left for the ingenuity and industry of others...
Страница 33 - I think, howsoever it may be taken. Men may censure and object as they please, but I appeal to time and experiment. Effects misimputed, cases wrong told, circumstances overlooked, perhaps too, prejudices and partialities against truth, may for a time prevail and keep her at the bottom of her well, from whence nevertheless she emergeth sooner or later, and strikes the eyes of all who do not keep them shut.
Страница 14 - It is sometimes difficult to catch the vessels accurately, but once fairly under the finger, the effect is immediate and decided. There is felt a soft humming in the ears, a sense of tingling steals over the body, and, in a few seconds, complete unconsciousness and insensibility supervene, and continue so long as the pressure is maintained.
Страница 56 - A man's life in these days is sp<mt in the realization of impossibilities, in fervently denying one week what he sees put in practice the next. So wedded are we to custom, so hampered by precedents, so enslaved by habit, that we cannot bring ourselves to believe that what is wrong in our proceedings can possibly be corrected, or what is right in the practices of our neighbors can possibly be adopted. The Committee of the House of Commons which pronounced Railways 'impossible...
Страница 38 - ... which are derived as deductions from processes of reasoning. It is thus opposed to all sophistical arguments, and partial or distorted reasonings, by which disputants strive to establish particular systems, instead of engaging in an honest and simple inquiry after truth. The love of truth, therefore, is of equal importance in the reception of facts, and in the formation of opinions ; and it includes also a readiness to relinquish our own opinions, when new facts or arguments are presented to...
Страница 15 - ... insensibility supervene, and continue so long as the pressure is maintained. On its removal, there is confusion of thought, with return of the tingling sensation, and in a few seconds consciousness is restored. The operation pales the face slightly, but the pulse is little, if at all, affected. In profound sleep the breathing is stertorous, but otherwise free. The inspirations are deeper. The mind dreams with much activity, and a few seconds appear as hours, from the number and rapid succession...
Страница 29 - This diminution however, of the sensibility to external impressions, is not unfrequently accompanied with severe degrees of pain." In fact, in making the experiments to which I have above adverted with the pounded ice, few of us could allow the hand...
Страница 15 - ... vapours. So far as my experience goes, it has shown no tendency to cause faintness ; and usually, after its employment, no unpleasant feeling whatever remains. I think it may be found useful as a remedial agent in certain headaches, tetanus, asthma, and other spasmodic diseases, and to prevent pain in such small operations as the extraction of a tooth or the opening of an abscess.
Страница 43 - CHAPTER IV. PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF THE MOUTH. THE condition of the mouth is not sufficiently regarded in the "application of artificial teeth, and to the neglect of this the evil effects that so often result from their use are frequently attributable. An artificial appliance, no matter how correct it may be in its construction and in the mode of its application, cannot be worn with impunity in a diseased mouth. Of this fact, every day's experience furnishes the most abundant proof. Yet...
Страница 47 - It arises from a state of the bloodvessels incompatible with inflammation. So far from causing this condition, there is little doubt that, however valuable intense cold may be as an anaesthetic, it is as an antiphlogistic that it will be chiefly prized, or as a means of preventing or immediately subduing, with perfect safety to the patient^ every inflammation within its reach.

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