Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... death ; and Dr. Young , in his deathbed of Altamont , has painted in strong and lasting colours the closing scene of one whose career too nearly resembled the profligate War . wick's . But those in humbler walks of life have iv PREFACE .
... death ; and Dr. Young , in his deathbed of Altamont , has painted in strong and lasting colours the closing scene of one whose career too nearly resembled the profligate War . wick's . But those in humbler walks of life have iv PREFACE .
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... Death at the Toilet • CHAPTER VI . The Turned Head • The Wife CHAPTER VII . • . 174 • 212 217 235 The Spectre - smitten . 268 · CHAPTER VIII . The Martyr Philosopher 300 PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN . CHAPTER.
... Death at the Toilet • CHAPTER VI . The Turned Head • The Wife CHAPTER VII . • . 174 • 212 217 235 The Spectre - smitten . 268 · CHAPTER VIII . The Martyr Philosopher 300 PASSAGES FROM THE DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN . CHAPTER.
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... death by his landlord . " On one occasion , however , his servant came stuttering with agitation into my room , that " hib massa wis to see - a - a doctor . " I found him suffering from the heart - burn ; submitted to his asthmatic ...
... death by his landlord . " On one occasion , however , his servant came stuttering with agitation into my room , that " hib massa wis to see - a - a doctor . " I found him suffering from the heart - burn ; submitted to his asthmatic ...
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... DEATH - BED - PREPARING FOR THE HOUSE - DUELLING . Cancer . ONE often hears of the great firmness of the female sex , and their powers of enduring a degree of physi- cal pain which would utterly break down the stub- born strength of man ...
... DEATH - BED - PREPARING FOR THE HOUSE - DUELLING . Cancer . ONE often hears of the great firmness of the female sex , and their powers of enduring a degree of physi- cal pain which would utterly break down the stub- born strength of man ...
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... Death - bed . [ The following short but melancholy narrative will , it is hoped , be perused with additional interest , when the reader is assured that it is FACT . Much more might have been committed to press ; but as it would have ...
... Death - bed . [ The following short but melancholy narrative will , it is hoped , be perused with additional interest , when the reader is assured that it is FACT . Much more might have been committed to press ; but as it would have ...
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agitation Allan Water ANNA MARIA PORTER apoplexy apothecary asked assured attended baronet beautiful bedside begged burst calm Captain carriage choly continued course dear dear doctor doctor door dreadful Effingstone endeavoured epilepsy excitement exclaimed eyes face faint fancy fearful feelings felt friends guineas hand head heard heart honour horror hour hurried husband hypochondriasis inquired instant instantly lady laudanum look manner melan mind Miss Herbert morning nearly never night nine o'clock o'clock occasion Old Bailey once pain pale patient Paul Clifford pause poor port wine present reader recollect replied round scene seemed servant sigh sitting smile soon sort spirits STRATTON HILL sudden suddenly suffered symptoms tears tell thing thought tion told tone Trevor turned uttered vols Warningham whispered wife words wretched young
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Page 3 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 107 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 108 - I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 120 - Fairest of them all. For his bride a soldier sought her, And a winning tongue had he, On the banks of Allan Water, None so gay as she.
Page 216 - The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the tinselry of fashion — " the vain show" of artificial joy — was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle. Poor creature...