An Account of the Life, Lectures and Writings of William Cullen, Volumen 1

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Blackwood, 1832 - 668 páginas

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Página 136 - but wish him the advantage of your conversation and instructions. I wish it also for the sake of my country, where he is to reside, and where I am persuaded he will be not a little useful. I am, with the greatest esteem and respect, Dear Sir, your most obedient and most humble servant, B.
Página 468 - his lesson very well, it surely can be of little importance where or from whom he has learnt it. " The monopoly of medical education which this regulation would establish in favour of Universities would, I apprehend, be hurtful to the lasting prosperity of such bodies-corporate.
Página 345 - jealousy— • Trifles light as air Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Página 530 - superest aevi, si quid superesse volunt Di: Sit bona librorum et proviso frugis in annum Copia; neu fluitem dubiae spe pendulus horae. Sed satis est orare Jovem quae donat et aufert, Det vitam,
Página 13 - three years; and these, as he has been often heard to acknowledge, were the happiest years of his life. " It was then agreed that he should go and prosecute his studies in Edinburgh and London, and afterwards return
Página 472 - their abilities to teach, and their diligence in teaching; and that they should not have it in their power to use any of those quackish arts which have disgraced and degraded the half of them. " A degree which can be conferred only upon students of a certain standing, is a statute of apprenticeship which is
Página 261 - they may be said to constitute a most important part, if not the sole basis, of that system of the Practice of Physic, which he made the subject of prelection, as well as of study, for a period of nearly forty years before he ventured to give it to the public.
Página 221 - upon certain motions made in our bodies by external objects, the soul should have such and such perceptions or ideas, though in a way inconceivable to us, this perhaps would appear as true and as instructive a proposition as what is so positively laid down
Página 600 - About a fortnight before his death, he added a codicil to his will, in which he fully discovered his attention to his friends, as well as his own pleasantry. What little wine he himself drank was generally port, a wine
Página 259 - It may be remarked, however, that he was aware that all animal matters may be ultimately traced to a vegetable origin ; and he observes, that, if we would inquire into the production of animal matter, we must first inquire in what manner vegetable matter may be converted into animal.

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