Discourse delivered on the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of the N.Y. Academy of Medicine, November 11th, 1869W. Wood & Company, 1870 - 76 pages |
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Page 58
... electricity , both atmospherical and terrestrial . The intensity of atmospherical electricity is found to vary with the hour of the day , and to vary with the season of the year . Professor Loomis informs us that there are two daily ...
... electricity , both atmospherical and terrestrial . The intensity of atmospherical electricity is found to vary with the hour of the day , and to vary with the season of the year . Professor Loomis informs us that there are two daily ...
Page 59
... electricity nugatory in its effect upon the human economy ? We have yet much to learn on these subjects , and they are worthy of more extended examination than they have hitherto received . It would be an oversight were I not to allude ...
... electricity nugatory in its effect upon the human economy ? We have yet much to learn on these subjects , and they are worthy of more extended examination than they have hitherto received . It would be an oversight were I not to allude ...
Page 60
... electricity , owes its origin chiefly to Galvani , physician and professor of ana- tomy at Bologna , in 1791. An accident directed his attention to the subject . Some frogs , prepared for cooking , and designed for his invalid wife ...
... electricity , owes its origin chiefly to Galvani , physician and professor of ana- tomy at Bologna , in 1791. An accident directed his attention to the subject . Some frogs , prepared for cooking , and designed for his invalid wife ...
Page 61
... electric current , artificially induced , is now skillfully applied to the animal economy as a remedial agent , and may be so tempered as to suit diverse morbid conditions . We observe it inducing motion where there is palsy ; sensation ...
... electric current , artificially induced , is now skillfully applied to the animal economy as a remedial agent , and may be so tempered as to suit diverse morbid conditions . We observe it inducing motion where there is palsy ; sensation ...
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... electric girdle unites in intelligent communi- cation many of the nations of the earth , and will soon enclose all in its embrace . Is not this one of the important initial steps toward the advent of a far distant period when , in a ...
... electric girdle unites in intelligent communi- cation many of the nations of the earth , and will soon enclose all in its embrace . Is not this one of the important initial steps toward the advent of a far distant period when , in a ...
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Page 63 - O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 22 - Would he were fatter ! But I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 76 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 76 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner, being an hundred years old, shall be accursed.
Page 74 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised : thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jacet.
Page 72 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 71 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 68 - With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Page 41 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 18 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.