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... applied to denote and distinguish sensations ; an evil familiar to every medical man , and only to be obviated by watchful experience . portant questions wholly unresolved ; - such is the difficulty 4 ON MEDICAL EVIDENCE .
... applied to denote and distinguish sensations ; an evil familiar to every medical man , and only to be obviated by watchful experience . portant questions wholly unresolved ; - such is the difficulty 4 ON MEDICAL EVIDENCE .
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... sensations applies peculiarly indeed to the head , of which the ambiguous use of the terms light and heavy may be taken as a familiar example . It must be owned , however , that the names here are not much more vague than the knowledge ...
... sensations applies peculiarly indeed to the head , of which the ambiguous use of the terms light and heavy may be taken as a familiar example . It must be owned , however , that the names here are not much more vague than the knowledge ...
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... sensations . Ferhaps altogether the respiration is the most certain test we can employ in the absence of the latter . Bleeding by leeches from the hæmorrhoidal vessels might be much more frequently employed than it is in affections of ...
... sensations . Ferhaps altogether the respiration is the most certain test we can employ in the absence of the latter . Bleeding by leeches from the hæmorrhoidal vessels might be much more frequently employed than it is in affections of ...
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... sensation from these parts : and , though it may be termed a function of the will directed towards the body , it produces no effect on the mus- cular structure as such . Where indeed the attention is ex- cited by external impressions ...
... sensation from these parts : and , though it may be termed a function of the will directed towards the body , it produces no effect on the mus- cular structure as such . Where indeed the attention is ex- cited by external impressions ...
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... the effect of attention in augmenting the intensity of ordinary sensations . †I might add here that I have reason to think hæmorrhage ( as , for The same may be said of the parts concerned in F 4 EFFECTS OF MENTAL ATTENTION . 71.
... the effect of attention in augmenting the intensity of ordinary sensations . †I might add here that I have reason to think hæmorrhage ( as , for The same may be said of the parts concerned in F 4 EFFECTS OF MENTAL ATTENTION . 71.
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admitted afford alimentary canal altered analogy animal antimonial applied atmosphere attention blood body bowels brain calomel cause changes character chiefly Cholera circulation circumstances Colchicum common connexion curious degree depend difficulty direct disease disorder distinct doubt dysentery dyspepsia dyspeptic effect electricity emetics epidemic equally erysipelas especially evidence examples excess exist experience fact familiar fever frequent functions further gout habit hereditary Hippocrates important inference inflammation influence influenza injury inquiry instances irritation kind knowledge less matter measles medicine membranes mental metastasis mind morbid actions mucous membrane nature nerves nervous power nervous system noticed numerous observation obvious occur opiates opium organs particular pathology patient peculiar period phenomena phrenology physician physiology points practice presumed principle probably produced proof quantity question reason regarding relation remarkable remedy respiration scarcely secretions sensations sensorium singular sleep stomach structure sudorific symptoms texture tion treatment various vascular vascular system virus wholly