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Page 257 - For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them •, and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way ; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 15 - I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition.
Page 150 - A SYSTEM of SURGERY, Theoretical and Practical. In Treatises by Various Authors.
Page 33 - A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. By WILLIAM A. HAMMOND, MD, Surgeon-General US Army (retired list); Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System in the University of the City of New York.
Page 101 - Professor of Pathology and Therapeutics; Director of the Medical Clinic of the University of Tubingen. Translated from the Eighth German Edition, by special permission of the Author, By GEORGE H. HUMPHREYS, MD...
Page 16 - I know very well that few will quarrel with the licence of my writings, who have not more to quarrel with in the licence of their own thoughts: I conform myself well enough to their inclinations, but I offend their eyes.
Page 180 - My hopes are with the Dead; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
Page 162 - Moreover, it can not be said that in any of our sections there is not enough for a full, strong mind to do. If any one will doubt this, let him try his own strength in the discussions of several of them. In truth, the fault of specialism is not in narrowness, but in the shallowncss and the belief in self-sufficiency with which it is apt to be associated.
Page 170 - There cannot always be new fields for conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from its intrusion, at least, in the hands of the surgeon.
Page 167 - And then let us always remind ourselves of the nobility of our calling. I dare to claim for it that, among all the sciences, ours, in the pursuit and use of truth, offers the most complete and constant union of those three qualities which have the greatest charm for pure and active minds — novelty, utility, and charity.