Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont: Including Hitherto Unpublished Data Concerning the Case of Alexis St. Martin |
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... Joseph Lovell . 114 119 Order granting Beaumont furlough for one year 141 Order of Col. Zachary Taylor granting Beaumont furlough 144 Beaumont and family at about the time of their return to Plattsburgh 146 Last page of a contract made ...
... Joseph Lovell . 114 119 Order granting Beaumont furlough for one year 141 Order of Col. Zachary Taylor granting Beaumont furlough 144 Beaumont and family at about the time of their return to Plattsburgh 146 Last page of a contract made ...
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... Lovell and myself thought it advisable to trepan without delay . Judging from the nature of the case that the in ... Joseph Lovell , whose name we find mentioned here for the first time , remained a lifelong friend of Dr. Beaumont . He ...
... Lovell and myself thought it advisable to trepan without delay . Judging from the nature of the case that the in ... Joseph Lovell , whose name we find mentioned here for the first time , remained a lifelong friend of Dr. Beaumont . He ...
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... Joseph Lovell , was made surgeon - general of the United States , and in this capacity subjected his friend and companion , Dr. Beaumont , as will be shown later in this narrative , to much inconvenience , discomfiture , and humiliation ...
... Joseph Lovell , was made surgeon - general of the United States , and in this capacity subjected his friend and companion , Dr. Beaumont , as will be shown later in this narrative , to much inconvenience , discomfiture , and humiliation ...
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... Joseph Lovell , had been chosen surgeon - general . Though Lovell was not yet thirty years of age , he had shown , in his able reports as hospital surgeon and medical director of the north- ern division , mature thought and a keen ...
... Joseph Lovell , had been chosen surgeon - general . Though Lovell was not yet thirty years of age , he had shown , in his able reports as hospital surgeon and medical director of the north- ern division , mature thought and a keen ...
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... Joseph Lovell was the first incumbent of the high office of " surgeon- general . " which was tendered him in 1818 in recognition of his skill as a sur- geon and his splendid qualifications as executive and organizer while hospital ...
... Joseph Lovell was the first incumbent of the high office of " surgeon- general . " which was tendered him in 1818 in recognition of his skill as a sur- geon and his splendid qualifications as executive and organizer while hospital ...
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Page 74 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone through the thirteen.
Page 74 - Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; ie, waste nothing. 6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions. 7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly. 8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
Page 75 - I hoped, the encouraging pleasure of seeing on my pages the progress made in virtue, by clearing^ successively my lines of their spots ; till in the end, by a number of courses, I should be happy in viewing a clean book, after a thirteen weeks
Page 75 - I crossed these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues; on which line, and in its proper column, I might mark by a little black spot, every fault I found upon examination to have been committed respecting that virtue, upon that day I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively.
Page 74 - I had undertaken a task of more difficulty than I had imagined. While my care was employed in guarding against one fault, I was often surprised by another; habit took the advantage of inattention; inclination was sometimes too strong for reason. I concluded, at length, that the mere speculative conviction that it was our interest to be completely virtuous was not sufficient to prevent our slipping; and that the contrary habits must be broken, and good ones acquired and established, before we can...
Page 74 - Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. 2 SILENCE Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation. 3 ORDER Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Page 73 - I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time ; I would conquer all that either natural inclination, custom, or company might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Page 74 - I should have gone thro' the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand above. Temperance first, as it tends to procure that coolness and clearness of head, which is so necessary where constant vigilance was to be kept up, and guard maintained against the unremitting attraction of ancient habits, and the force of perpetual temptations.
Page 73 - It was about this time I conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection. I wished to live without committing any fault at any time, and to conquer all that either natural inclination, custom or company, might lead me into. As I knew, or thought I knew, what was right and wrong, I did not see why I might not always do the one and avoid the other.
Page 74 - Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. 13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.