The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe
2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought
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to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition;
instruction; a favourable position for the study; early tuition; love
of labour; leisure. First of all, a natural talent is required; for
when nature opposes, everything else is vain; but when nature leads
the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place,
which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection,
becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He
must also bring to the task a love of labour and perseverance, so that
the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. BOOK I.
3. BOOK II.
4. BOOK III.
5. BOOK IV.
6. BOOK V.
7. BOOK VI.
8. BOOK I.
9. CHAPTER I.
10. CHAPTER II.
11. CHAPTER III.
12. CHAPTER IV.
13. CHAPTER V.
14. CHAPTER VI.
15. CHAPTER VII.
16. CHAPTER VIII.
17. BOOK II.
18. CHAPTER I.
19. CHAPTER II.
20. 5. _Disease of the liver_. 6. _Hypochondria_. 7. _Hysteria_. 8.
21. 12. _Fevers_ in general (Matt. viii. 14, etc.). 13. _Pestilence_
22. 23. _Cancer_ (2 Tim. ii. 17). 24. _Worms_; may have been phthiriasis
23. 28. _Lethargy_ (Gen. ii. 21; 1 Sam. xxvi. 12). 29. _Paralysis_, palsy
24. CHAPTER III.
25. 29. For the spell the invocation of heaven may he repeat the invocation
26. 38. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing,
27. 48. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing,
28. 58. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing,
29. 68. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing,
30. 78. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing,
31. 88. the evil invocation, the finger pointing, the marking, the cursing,
32. 92. may it drive out the spell and I shall be free.
33. CHAPTER IV.
34. 6. The Vedānta, by Bādarāyana or Vyāsa.
35. CHAPTER V.
36. CHAPTER VI.
37. BOOK III.
38. CHAPTER I.
39. CHAPTER II.
40. 1. Medicine is of all the arts the most noble; but owing to the
41. 2. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought
42. 3. Instruction in medicine is like the culture of the productions of
43. 4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and
44. 5. Those things which are sacred are to be imparted only to sacred
45. CHAPTER III.
46. CHAPTER IV.
47. 17. Celsus, _De Medicina Libri Octo_, of which the fifth treats of
48. 22. Marcellus Empiricus, _De Medicamentis Empiricis, Physicis, ac
49. CHAPTER V.
50. CHAPTER VI.
51. 2. The _Magical_, with extraordinary figures, superstitious words,
52. BOOK IV.
53. CHAPTER I.
54. 900. The sources of the information he ascribes to Oxa, Dun, and
55. 2. He is to have his land free: his horse in attendance: and his linen
56. 3. His seat in the hall within the palace is at the base of the pillar
57. 5. His protection is, from the time the king shall command him to visit
58. 6. He is to administer medicine gratuitously to all within the palace,
59. 7. The mediciner is to have, when he shall apply a tent, twenty-four
60. 14. The mediciner is to take an indemnification from the kindred of the
61. 18. His worth is six score and six kine, to be augmented.”
62. CHAPTER II.
63. CHAPTER III.
64. 529. The religious houses of this order, of which Monte Cassino was the
65. CHAPTER IV.
66. CHAPTER V.
67. CHAPTER VI.
68. CHAPTER VII.
69. 1325. Though he had a penetrating faculty of observation, he was not
70. CHAPTER VIII.
71. CHAPTER IX.
72. BOOK V.
73. CHAPTER I.
74. 1518. The king was moved to this by the example of similar institutions
75. CHAPTER II.
76. CHAPTER III.
77. CHAPTER IV.
78. CHAPTER V.
79. CHAPTER VI.
80. CHAPTER VII.
81. 1774. The greatest teacher of surgery in Germany, A. G. Richter, gave
82. 1734. He was the author of several medical treatises, one of which
83. BOOK VI.
84. CHAPTER I.
85. CHAPTER II.
86. CHAPTER III.
87. introduction of wholly new and startling ideas.
88. 1608. BICHLORIDE OF MERCURY, or CORROSIVE SUBLIMATE, is the _ruskapoor_
89. 337. Boniveh, _Tasmanians_, pp. 183, 195.
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