The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart: Interspersed with Sketches from His Note-books of Distinguished Contemporary Characters, Volume 1J.W. Parker, 1843 - 480 pagina's |
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The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart: Interspersed with Sketches ..., Volume 2 Bransby Blake Cooper Volledige weergave - 1843 |
The Life of Sir Astley Cooper, Bart: Interspersed with Sketches ..., Volume 2 Bransby Blake Cooper Volledige weergave - 1843 |
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Pagina 42 - If a woman be healthy, and she has milk in her breast, there can be no question of the propriety of her giving suck. If such a question be put, the answer should be, that all animals, even those of the most ferocious character, show affection for their young — do not forsake them, but yield them their milk — do not neglect, but nurse and watch over them; and Shall woman, the loveliest of Nature's creatures, possessed of reason as well as instinct, refuse that nourishment to her offspring which...
Pagina 407 - The law does not prevent our obtaining the body of an individual if we think proper ; for there is no person, let his situation in life be what it may, whom, if I were disposed to dissect, I could not obtain.
Pagina 305 - Early next morning, he was roused by a somewhat imperative message from his patient of the previous evening, to attend her immediately ; and he at once concluded that the object of this summons was either to inveigh against him for the state in which he had visited her on the former occasion, or perhaps for having administered too potent a medicine. Ill at ease, from these reflections, he entered the lady's room, fully prepared for a severe reprimand.
Pagina 74 - ... astonishment of a large number of persons assembled there. The timid looked upon it as a phenomenon predictive of some calamity — the inquisitive formed a thousand conjectures — while some, curious in natural history, actually accounted for it by a gale of wind in the north blowing wild-fowl feathers from the island of St Paul's! It was not long, however, before the difficulty was cleared up in the doctor's house, where it at first gave rise to anything but those expressions of amusement...
Pagina 401 - Oh, Sir, only let there be a battle, and there'll be no want of teeth. I'll draw them as fast as the men are knocked down.
Pagina 172 - Fyfe I attended, and learned much from him. He was a horrid lecturer, but an industrious worthy man, and a good practical anatomist. His lecture was, •I say — eh, eh, eh, gentlemen; eh, eh, eh, gentlemen — I say,
Pagina 142 - During this time, Astley, who was always eager to add to our anatomical and physiological knowledge, made a variety of experiments on living animals. I recollect one day walking out with him, when a dog followed us, and accompanied us home, little foreseeing the fate that awaited him. He was confined for a few days, till we had ascertained that no owner would come to claim him, and then brought up to be the subject of various operations. The first of these was the tying one of the femoral arteries....
Pagina 277 - Cline the event, not so much on his own account as because it arrested a train of professional inquiry in which he was then engaged, and which he thought would prove of the highest public benefit. " Make yourself quite easy, my friend,
Pagina 189 - Coleman, by his scientific researches and energetic management, in a few years raised the college to a high standard. of usefulness; under his care the progress of the veterinary art was such as to qualify its practitioners to hold commissions in the army; and he himself was appointed veterinary surgeongeneral to the British cavalry.
Pagina 318 - ... decidedly the handsomest, that is, the most intelligent and finely-formed countenance and person of any man I remember to have seen. He wore his hair powdered, with a queue, then the custom, and having dark hair, and always a fine healthy glow of colour in his cheeks, .this fashion became him well...