 | 596 pagini
...proportion ; that is a great comfort." The comfort it is presumed of the profession, not of the public. " It is somewhat strange that though in many arts and...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of these illfated arts whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity. This is lamentably... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1838 - 248 pagini
...state of our art will, therefore, be listened to with respect:—"It is somewhat strange," he says, "that though in many arts and sciences, improvement...wonder, not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those ill-fated arts whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity. This is lamentably... | |
 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 pagini
...obliged to have recourse to, ' that what I wanted, I was forced to borrow from myself.' " It is somewhaf strange, that though in many arts and sciences improvement...advanced in a step of regular progression from the first moment of their invention ; in others, it has kept no pace with time* and we look back to ancient excellence... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1839 - 320 pagini
...while I give you his opinion of the later state of our art : " It is somewhat strange," he says, " that though in many arts and sciences, improvement...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those illfated arts, whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity. This is lamentably... | |
 | Abraham Courtney - 1844 - 80 pagini
...profession, declared that " he had no faith irl medicines whatever ;" — that " he neither knew their manner of action, nor the principle which should direct...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those ill-fated arts whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity. This is lamentably... | |
 | William Horsell - 1845 - 262 pagini
...Sir W. Knighton, who was at the head of his profession, and was also physician to George IV., says, "It is somewhat strange that though in many arts and...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those ill-fated arts whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity." Had not facts... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1845 - 216 pagini
...in its practice. In a letter to a friend, published after his death, he thus delivers himself :—" It is somewhat strange that, though in many arts and...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those ill-fated arts whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity. This is lamentably... | |
 | 1848 - 914 pagini
...practice. In one of his private letters, published after his death, he thus delivers himself : — •" It is somewhat strange that, though in many arts and...regular progression from the first, in others, it Ъаз kept no pace with time ; and we look back to ancient excellence with wonder not unmixed with... | |
 | William Horsell - 1850 - 266 pagini
...Sir W. Knighton, who was at the head of his profession, and was also physician to George IV., says, " It is somewhat strange that though in many arts and...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those ill-fated arts whose improvement bears ho proportion to its antiquity." Had not facts... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1850 - 230 pagini
...in its practice. In a letter to a friend, published after his death, he thus delivers himself: — " It is somewhat strange that, though in many arts and...wonder not unmixed with awe. Medicine seems to be one of those ill-fated arts, whose improvement bears no proportion to its antiquity. This is lamentably... | |
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It is somewhat strange that, though in many arts and sciences improvement has advanced in a step of regular progression from the first, in others, it has kept no pace with time ; and we look back to ancient excellence with wonder not unmixed with awe.... 
