Sketches of eminent medical men1799 |
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... practice as a physician sensibly declined . In a quarter of a century more , his system was received in all the universities of the world , and Harvey lived to enjoy the reputation he so justly merited . The date of the first ...
... practice as a physician sensibly declined . In a quarter of a century more , his system was received in all the universities of the world , and Harvey lived to enjoy the reputation he so justly merited . The date of the first ...
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... practice . " But in the year 1646 , Charles was persuaded to put himself in the power of the Scottish army at Newark , and orders were issued for the surrender of Oxford . Consequently Harvey was obliged to relinquish his short - lived ...
... practice . " But in the year 1646 , Charles was persuaded to put himself in the power of the Scottish army at Newark , and orders were issued for the surrender of Oxford . Consequently Harvey was obliged to relinquish his short - lived ...
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... practice , he does not appear to have been particularly successful . The truth was , that the great physiologist not only disdained those arts of gaining the confidence of the public , by which many succeed , but was probably too intent ...
... practice , he does not appear to have been particularly successful . The truth was , that the great physiologist not only disdained those arts of gaining the confidence of the public , by which many succeed , but was probably too intent ...
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... practice was so much in advance of the age in which he lived , and thus , as far as the prejudices of the time would permit , did he accomplish a real and most satisfactory revolution in the entire art of medicine . For accurate ...
... practice was so much in advance of the age in which he lived , and thus , as far as the prejudices of the time would permit , did he accomplish a real and most satisfactory revolution in the entire art of medicine . For accurate ...
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... practice . ' Read Don Quixote , ' replied he , ' it is a very good book ; I read it still . ' " Whether this rejoinder were intended as a keen satire upon the medical literature of the age , or , as Dr. Johnson thinks , upon the talents ...
... practice . ' Read Don Quixote , ' replied he , ' it is a very good book ; I read it still . ' " Whether this rejoinder were intended as a keen satire upon the medical literature of the age , or , as Dr. Johnson thinks , upon the talents ...
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