Medicine Considers The Human Body As To

Mountains Have Been Formed By One [or Other] Of The Causes Of The Formation Of Stone, Most Probably From Agglutinative Clay Which Slowly Dried And Petrified During Ages Of Which We Have No Record. It Seems Likely That This Habitable World Was In Former Days Uninhabitable And, Indeed, Submerged Beneath The Ocean. Then, Becoming Exposed Little By Little, It Petrified In The Course Of Ages.

The Theory Of Medicine, Therefore, Presents What Is Useful In Thought, But Does Not Indicate How It Is To Be Applied In Practice-the Mode Of Operation Of These Principles. The Theory, When Mastered, Gives Us A Certain Kind Of Knowledge. Thus We Say, For Example, There Are Three Forms Of Fevers And Nine Constitutions. The Practice Of Medicine Is Not The Work Which The Physician Carries Out, But Is That Branch Of Medical Knowledge Which, When Acquired, Enables One To Form An Opinion Upon Which To Base The Proper Plan Of Treatment.

The Physical Signs Of Measles Are Nearly The Same As Those Of Smallpox, But Nausea And Inflammation Is More Severe, Though The Pains In The Back Are Less.

The More Brilliant The Lightning, The Quicker It Disappears.

A Horse Is Simply A Horse.