Essays and Orations, Read and Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians: To which is Added an Account of the Opening of the Tomb of King Charles I. |
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... slept for an instant , he ceased to rave , and was calm and collected . His perception of external objects became correct , and they no longer distressed him , and he asked , pressingly C 2 Ess . II . ] 19 OF SYMPTOMS .
... slept for an instant , he ceased to rave , and was calm and collected . His perception of external objects became correct , and they no longer distressed him , and he asked , pressingly C 2 Ess . II . ] 19 OF SYMPTOMS .
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... object of terror and of pity to those who witness his struggles under a fit , yet , by the mercy of heaven , he himself is unconscious of the frightful attack . He sleeps after his frame has been convulsed from head to foot , and ...
... object of terror and of pity to those who witness his struggles under a fit , yet , by the mercy of heaven , he himself is unconscious of the frightful attack . He sleeps after his frame has been convulsed from head to foot , and ...
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... object is to be ob- tained , naturally induces a contemplation of his more important spiritual concerns , a careful review of his past life , and such sincere sorrow and contrition for what he has done amiss , as justifies our humble ...
... object is to be ob- tained , naturally induces a contemplation of his more important spiritual concerns , a careful review of his past life , and such sincere sorrow and contrition for what he has done amiss , as justifies our humble ...
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... object of anxiety to the nation .. In such circumstances , the phy- sician has a duty to perform , not only to the sick personage and his family , but also to the public , who , in their extreme solicitude for his recovery , sometimes ...
... object of anxiety to the nation .. In such circumstances , the phy- sician has a duty to perform , not only to the sick personage and his family , but also to the public , who , in their extreme solicitude for his recovery , sometimes ...
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... objects aimed at gene- rally by a physician in the use of our com- mon resources in the treatment of this disease ; but so far is it from being prone to purge the body violently , as the Eau Médi- cinale often did , that I find it ...
... objects aimed at gene- rally by a physician in the use of our com- mon resources in the treatment of this disease ; but so far is it from being prone to purge the body violently , as the Eau Médi- cinale often did , that I find it ...
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Page 47 - My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Page 53 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Page 137 - Cotton. I was not only treated by him with the greatest tenderness while I was ill, and attended with the utmost diligence, but when my reason was restored to me, and I had so much need of a religious friend to converse with, to whom I could open my mind upon the subject without reserve, I could hardly hstve found a fitter person for the purpose.
Page 69 - Of the great number to whom it has been my painful professional duty to have administered in the last hours of their lives, I have sometimes felt surprised that so few have appeared reluctant to go to ' the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveller returns.
Page viii - CHARLES, 1648,' in large, legible characters, on a scroll of lead encircling it, immediately presented itself to the view. A square opening was then made in the upper part of the lid, of such dimensions as to admit a clear insight into its contents.
Page 136 - Islington, where he was waiting for his sister, whom he had directed to meet him: there was then nothing of disorder discernible in his mind by any but himself; but he had withdrawn from study, and travelled with no other book than an English Testament, such as children carry to the school: when his friend took it into his hand, out of curiosity to see what companion a Man of Letters had chosen, ' I have but one book,' said Collins,
Page vii - His Royal Highness was accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Count Munster, the Dean of Windsor, Benjamin Charles Stevenson, Esq., and Sir Henry Halford. ' The vault is covered by an arch, half a brick in thickness, is seven feet two inches in width, nine feet six inches in length, and four feet ten inches in height, and is situated in the centre of the choir, opposite the eleventh knight's stall, on the sovereign's side. ' On removing the pall, a plain leaden coffin, with no...
Page 70 - Many, we may easily suppose, have manifested this willingness to die, from an impatience of suffering, or from that passive indifference which is sometimes the result of debility and extreme bodily exhaustion. But I have seen those who have arrived at a fearless contemplation of the future, from faith in the doctrine which our religion teaches. Such men were not only calm and supported, but even cheerful in the hour of death ; and I never quitted such a sick chamber without a wish that " my last...
Page 72 - ... aggravate his danger. And unless I shall have found him averse from doing what was necessary in aid of my remedies, from a want of a proper sense of his perilous situation, I forbear to step out of the bounds of my province in order to offer any advice which is not necessary to promote his cure. At the same time, I think it indispensable to let his friends know the danger of his case the instant I discover it. An arrangement of his worldly affairs, in which the comfort or...
Page xxv - There was a passage broke through the wall of the banquetinghouse, by which the king passed unto the scaffold; where, after his majesty had spoken and declared publicly that he died a christian according to the profession of the church of England, (the contents of which have been several times printed) the iatal stroke was given by a disguised person.