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... was so well re- ceived and so highly valued by the profession , that it went through four editions . The text - book , therefore , being a professional one of welcomed instruc- tion to practitioners , full reliance may in all reason.
... was so well re- ceived and so highly valued by the profession , that it went through four editions . The text - book , therefore , being a professional one of welcomed instruc- tion to practitioners , full reliance may in all reason.
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... and for such reason , could not consis- tently be omitted . A celebrated professional writer * has said , " No practitioner of honour * Dr. Alexander Hamilton . would ever presume to put any ques- tion to a vi PREFACE .
... and for such reason , could not consis- tently be omitted . A celebrated professional writer * has said , " No practitioner of honour * Dr. Alexander Hamilton . would ever presume to put any ques- tion to a vi PREFACE .
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... offers needless apology for their introduction . fact from the professional passages which are quoted in the following pages , indelicacy appears to be so In all - pervading when the practitioner is a man , PREFACE . vii.
... offers needless apology for their introduction . fact from the professional passages which are quoted in the following pages , indelicacy appears to be so In all - pervading when the practitioner is a man , PREFACE . vii.
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... Acopica wholly unnecessary , for which medicine the general reader too frequently finds occasion in the perusal of any work which is strictly and merely professional . This , how- ever , is not so ; and it having been PREFACE . ix.
... Acopica wholly unnecessary , for which medicine the general reader too frequently finds occasion in the perusal of any work which is strictly and merely professional . This , how- ever , is not so ; and it having been PREFACE . ix.
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... professional propriety , let it be taken into serious consideration , that if only a faint pic- turing , a mere uncoloured outline defined in sympathetic ink be repugnant to the feelings , what must be the dreadful reality in actual ...
... professional propriety , let it be taken into serious consideration , that if only a faint pic- turing , a mere uncoloured outline defined in sympathetic ink be repugnant to the feelings , what must be the dreadful reality in actual ...
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Page 10 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 174 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions ; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 176 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 241 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 195 - Thy words, Creator, bounteous and benign, Giver of all things fair! but fairest this Of all thy gifts ! nor enviest. I now see Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, myself...
Page 22 - Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created, much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force. Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power : Against his will he can receive no harm. But God left free the will, for what obeys Reason is free, and reason he made right...
Page 228 - Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Page 22 - O woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them ; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created...
Page 230 - For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Page 34 - And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.