Boylston Prize Dissertations for the Years 1836 and 1837

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C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1838 - 371 strani
 

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Stran 247 - How far are the external means of exploring the condition of the internal organs, to be considered useful and important in medical practice?
Stran 306 - ... neither do our diagnostics serve to ascertain exactly the seat of the disease; nor does the difference in the seat of the disease exhibit any considerable variation in the state of the symptoms, nor lead to any difference in the method of cure.
Stran 12 - In the mean time wee abound with such things which next under God doe make us subsist : as fish, foule, deere, and sundrie sorts of fruits, as musk-millions, water-millions, Indian pompions, Indian pease, beanes, and many other odde fruits that I cannot name ; all which are made good and pleasant through this maine blessing of God, the healthfulnesse of the countrie which far exceedeth all parts that ever I have beene in : It is observed that few or none doe here fal sicke, unless of the scurvy,...
Stran 171 - I venture to throw out an opinion, founded on the observations with which my experience has furnished me, that the disease is connected with some preternatural growth of bone, or a deposition of bone in a part of the animal economy, where it is not usually found, in a sound and healthy condition of it, or with a diseased bone...
Stran 19 - ... of their good-will to learning and liberal education of youth, and may have its acceptance in proportion with David desiring to build a temple, though it were effected by his son. They have been at several seasons sorely afflicted with diseases, especially fevers, which have proved mortal to many. All that southerly part of the seacoast having, as more propinquity to Virginia in situation, so a participation with it in its climatical diseases, commonly there called the seasoning, which is an...
Stran 113 - ... power, and now they are running the mills there at an altitude of 10,000 feet by electricity, and to a great advantage. Q. What have you to say of the extension of foreign markets, possibilities and methods? — A. I have looked some into that subject, but have not made a special study of it. I believe the time is not far distant when this section of the country will...
Stran 23 - I have not been dry night nor day, from the third day of the week unto the sixth, but so travelled, and at night pull off my boots, wring my stockings, and on with them again, and so continue. But God steps in and helps. I have considered the word of God, in 2 Tim. ii. 3. Endure hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Stran 251 - it is perfectly natural that they (speaking of the older practitioners) should look with suspicion upon this introduction of medical machinery among the old, Hard-working operatives ; that they should for a while smile at its pretensions, and when its use began to creep in among them, that they should observe and signalize all the errors and defects which happened in its practical application.
Stran 15 - I cannot well learn. Doubtless it was some pestilential disease. I have discoursed with some old Indians, that were then youths ; who say, that the bodies all over were exceeding yellow, describing it by a yellow garment they showed me, both before they died and afterwards.
Stran 11 - THE TEMPER of the air of New England is one special thing that commends this place. Experience doth manifest that there is hardly a more healthful place to be found in the world that agreeth better with our English bodies.

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