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... particular object of attack ; and especially if the attack be , as is too often the case , a sharp and ill - natured one , for then it confers upon it the profitable reputation of having been per- secuted . They have no application ...
... particular object of attack ; and especially if the attack be , as is too often the case , a sharp and ill - natured one , for then it confers upon it the profitable reputation of having been per- secuted . They have no application ...
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... particular mode of practice to be preeminently successful . It seems that there were some unbelievers in panaceas in those days as well as now , even in spite of the testimony of a learned Bishop ; " but , " he says in relation to their ...
... particular mode of practice to be preeminently successful . It seems that there were some unbelievers in panaceas in those days as well as now , even in spite of the testimony of a learned Bishop ; " but , " he says in relation to their ...
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... particular directions for the com- position and application of the weapon ointment , and records many reasons for its efficacy . But it is supposed that he understood the matter , and as it was at least an innocent delusion , he yielded ...
... particular directions for the com- position and application of the weapon ointment , and records many reasons for its efficacy . But it is supposed that he understood the matter , and as it was at least an innocent delusion , he yielded ...
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Worthington Hooker. is this . A physician has his attention directed to a particular set of facts . He becomes intensely interested in them . They fill the field of his mental vision , and he becomes in a measure blind to other facts ...
Worthington Hooker. is this . A physician has his attention directed to a particular set of facts . He becomes intensely interested in them . They fill the field of his mental vision , and he becomes in a measure blind to other facts ...
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... particular organ . Then that organ is apt to become to him the or- gan of all organs in the play of disease . The liver has been quite a favorite organ with some ; and the brain of many a doctor has been as full of liver as Miller's was ...
... particular organ . Then that organ is apt to become to him the or- gan of all organs in the play of disease . The liver has been quite a favorite organ with some ; and the brain of many a doctor has been as full of liver as Miller's was ...
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