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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DR. ANDREW COMBE. ... Paletudinis conservationem, qua; sine dubio prim urn est bujus vitte bonum, et caterorum omnium fundamentum. Animus enim at/to a temperamento et organorum corports disposition pendet, ut si ratio aliqua possit inveniri, qute homines sapientiores et ingeniosiores reddat quam hactenus fuerunt, credam illam in Medicind quart debere.? Renatus Descartes De Methodo, vi. Ovid observes that there are more fne days than cloudy ones in the year? ' Si nvmeres anno soles et nubila toto, Invenies nitidum soepius esse diem. It may be said likewise, that the days wherein men enjoy their health are in greater number than those wherein they are sick. But there is perhaps as much misery in ffteen days' sickness, as there is pleasure in ffteen years' health. ?Bayle, under the word Pericles. Eunt homines mirari aha montium, ingentes fluctus marts, altissimos lapsus Jluminum, oceani ambitum et gyros siderum?seipsos relinqtiunt nee admirantur.? St. Austin. DR. ANDREW COMBE. IE do not know a worthier subject for an essay in one of our larger Medical Journals, than to determine the just position of such a man as Dr. Combe in the history of Medicine?showing what it was in theory and in practice, in its laws as a science, and in its rules as an art?when he made his appearance on its field, and what impression his character and doctrines have made upon the public as requiring, and upon his brethren as professing to furnish, the means of health. The object of such an essay would be to make out how far Dr. Combe's principles of inquiry, his moral postulates, his method of cure, his views of the powers and range of medicine as a science, estimative, rather than exact, his rationale of human nature as composite and in action, ?how far all these influences may b...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217490290 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217490298 |
| Weight | 0.68 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.47 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 206 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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