S. Weir Mitchell, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., 1829-19141914 - 155 pages |
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Page 141 - When the Cumberland went down. And forests old, that gave A thousand years of power To her lordship of the wave And her beauty's regal dower. Bent, as though before a blast, When plunged her pennoned mast, And the Cumberland went down. And grimy mines that sent To her their virgin strength, And iron vigor lent To knit her lordly length, Wildly stirred with throbs of life, Echoes of that fatal strife, As the Cumberland went down. Beneath the ocean vast, Full many a captain bold. By many a rotting...
Page 18 - Dr. Mitchell is one of the most distinguished medical men in your country," adding after a pause, "or in any country.
Page 16 - ... and above all, the ability to interpret these assembled facts in making a diagnosis. He had a wonderful faculty of correlating widely separated facts and experiences, often, it might be, years apart. To him one plus one did not make two, but resulted in three — a tertium quid — a new fact or inference. Never have I known so original, suggestive, and fertile a mind. I often called him a "yeasty
Page 103 - To both of these great teachers and investigators Mitchell has expressed his indebtedness. Of the former he says in his memoir of Dalton : " Bernard strongly influenced the men who sought his courses, and I for one, like Dalton, must gladly acknowledge the educative power of this sturdy genius." The greatest educative influence, however, upon Weir Mitchell was unquestionably that of his distinguished father, one of the most remarkable and original physicians in the medical history of this country....
Page 127 - However the verdict of history may modify contemporary judgments of the achievements of men, it cannot change the place which Dr. Mitchell holds in our affection and esteem. He was a great physician ; our leader, endeared, admired; our friend and counselor, generous, wise, inspiring; a man of singular graces and accomplishments, active in advancing knowledge and in good works, a poet and man of letters, a sweetener of life to both sick and well. Happy such a life and happy the memories thereof which...
Page 152 - THERE is no dearer lover of lost hours Than I. I can be idler than the idlest flowers; More idly lie Than noonday lilies languidly afloat, And water pillowed in a windless moat. And I can be Stiller than some gray stone That hath no motion known. It seems to me That my still idleness doth make my own All magic gifts of joy's simplicity.
Page 141 - HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN GRAY swept the angry waves O'er the gallant and the true, Rolled high in mounded graves O'er the stately frigate's crew — Over cannon, over deck, Over all that ghastly wreck, — When the Cumberland went down. Such a roar the waters rent As though a giant died, When the wailing billows went Above those heroes tried; And the sheeted foam leaped high, Like white ghosts against the sky, — As the Cumberland went down. O shrieking waves that gushed Above that loyal band,...
Page 122 - Reversals of habitual motions; backward pronunciation of words; lip whispering of the insane; sudden failures of volition; repetition impulses"! As Dr. Mills remarks, "Mitchell is one of the few neurologists to whom well-deserved fame has come because of his contributions to therapeutics." He is doubtless best known to the lay public, as well as to a large part of the profession, by the introduction of that method of treatment which goes by his name, and consists in the systematic employment of a...
Page 121 - Nor does one often meet such 121 a description of a sensory hallucination as this: "Nearly every man who loses a limb carries about with him a constant or inconstant phantom of the missing member, a sensory ghost of that much of himself, and sometimes a most inconvenient presence, faintly felt at times...
Page 147 - Morton, he would have been less satisfied ; but perhaps could we hear all that is said behind our backs, existence would be nearly impossible except for the few, who would then make what was left of it intolerable. Mrs. Morton had said a few words to Dr. Wendell as to her desire that he should see her husband at his country home ; but she had by no means looked on this as a finality, and indeed did not decide the matter until, in prospect of the major's removal, she had a further talk...