The Origin and Growth of the Healing Art by Edward Berdoe
4. Having brought all these requisites to the study of medicine, and
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having acquired a true knowledge of it, we shall then, in travelling
through the cities, be esteemed physicians not only in name but in
reality. But inexperience is a bad treasure, and a bad friend to
those who possess it, whether in opinion or reality, being devoid of
self-reliance and contentedness, and the nurse both of timidity and
audacity. For timidity betrays a want of power, and audacity a want of
skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which
the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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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