Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    course, render the boot-top liquor thus made by the private person, nearly the same price as that sold in the shops, at a great profit. MODERN GREEK SURGERY. The surgeons of the Archipelago, according to Sonnini, in his Travels in Greece, vol. 2, p. 147, have the most unaccountable remedy for curing the inflammation or enlargement of the kernels in the neck; which disorder is charmed away, by tractorising the parts affected with the glans penis. FASHION IN MEDICINE. The Romans having banished from Rome the Greek physicians who had signalized them- selves in peopling the regions of the grave, the following reflection was made by Cato :—“ The Greeks, jealous of the glory of the Romans, and being unable to conquer them in the open field, have sent their executioners, who kill us in our beds.” The obscurity and uncertainty in which the study of Medicine has been involved, has, in all ages, been destructive to the human species. It can scarcely be doubted, that should a cal- culation be made respecting the numbers in- jured or benefitted by the medical art, the ba- lance would preponderate against the physician.