The Lancet, Volume 2

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J. Onwhyn, 1852 - Medicine

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Page 294 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 292 - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 254 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.
Page 294 - But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or furthest end of knowledge. For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of...
Page 191 - It is to be regretted that so little is known of the personal history of this great man.
Page 195 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 17 - As mercury sublimes at a red heat, we cannot proceed in the analysis by incineration ; the solvent must be added to the Cayenne direct; and this solvent must consist of aqua regia, which is a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, in the proportions of one part of the former to two of the latter acid. About a scruple of aqua regia should be added to half a drachm of Cayenne, and after an hour or two a small quantity of distilled water ; the mixture must next be filtered, and the excess of acid...
Page 277 - ... or degree, together with proofs of being twenty-one years of age, and of having been occupied at least four years in the acquirement of professional knowledge. III. Graduates in medicine of any legally constituted college or university requiring residence to obtain degrees, will be admitted for examination on adducing, together with their diploma or degree, proof of having completed the anatomical and surgical education...
Page 278 - Blank forms of the required certificates may be obtained on application to the Secretary, to whom they must be delivered, properly filled up, ten days before the candidate can be admitted to examination : and all such certificates are retained at the college.
Page 181 - AND be it enacted, that if any person shall maliciously publish any defamatory libel, knowing the same to be false, every such person, being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned in the common gaol or house of correction for any term not exceeding two years, and to pay such fine as the court shall award.

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