I do not put them into the account : they are to be ascribed to his power, not to his skill : he was a god, and his divinity was his nostrum. But how prodigiously have my ingenious contemporaries extended the bounds of medicine ! What nostrums, what specifics... The British Essayists;: The world - Page 126by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 424 pages
...rather endeavoured to relieve than pretended to cure. As for the astonishing cures of jEsculapius, 'I do not put them into the account : they are to...immortality; insomuch that I am astonished, when I still read in the weekly bills the great number of people who choose to die of such and such distempers,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...rather endeavoured to relieve than pretended to cure. As for the astonishing cures of jEsculapius, I do not put them into the account : they are to be...immortality ; insomuch that I am astonished, when I still read in the weekly bills the great number of people who choose to die of such and such distempers,... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 636 pages
...rather endeavoured to relieve than pretended to cure. As for the astonishing cures of ./Esculapius, I do not put them into the account ; they are to be...have they not discovered! Collectively considered, theyinsure not only perfect health, but, by a necessary consequence, immortality ; insomuch that I... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 336 pages
...rather endeavoured to relieve than pretended to cure. As for the astonishing cures of ./Esculapius, I do not put them into the account; they are to be ascribed to his power, not to his skill: he was & god, and his divinity was hia nostrum. But how prodigiously have my ingenious contemporaries extended... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1892 - 582 pages
...rather endeavoured to relieve, than pretended to cure. As for the astonishing cures of jEsculapius, I do not put them into the account ; they are to be...to his power, not to his skill : he was a god, and divinity was his NOSTRUM. But how prodigiously have my ingenious contemporaries extended the bounds... | |
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