The Doctor's Dilemma: With a Preface on Doctors

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Brentano's, 1911 - 116 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 110 - Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive...
Sayfa 99 - But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men . 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment.
Sayfa 97 - I know that in an accidental sort of way, struggling through the unreal part of life, I havnt always been able to live up to my ideal. But in my own real world I have never done anything wrong, never denied my faith, never been untrue to myself.
Sayfa 98 - Ive fought the good fight. And now it's all over, theres an indescribable peace. [He feebly folds his hands and utters his creed] I believe in Michael Angelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
Sayfa 12 - Ive heard this notion that the white corpuscles — what is it that whats his name — Metchnikoff — calls them? RIDGEON: Phagocytes. SIR PATRICK: Aye, phagocytes: yes, yes, yes. Well I heard this theory that the phagocytes eat up the disease germs years ago; long before you came into fashion. Besides, they dont always eat them. RIDGEON: They do when you butter them with opsonin. SIR PATRICK: Gammon. RIDGEON: No; it's not gammon. What it comes to in practice is this. The phagocytes wont eat the...
Sayfa 107 - Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Sayfa 73 - No, no. He's the most advanced man now living: he isn't anything. SIR PATRICK. I assure you, young man, my father learnt the doctrine of deliverance from sin from John Wesley's own lips before you or Mr. Shaw were born. It used to be very popular as an excuse for putting sand in sugar...
Sayfa 17 - I tell you, blood-poisoning. Ninety-five per cent of the human race suffer from chronic blood-poisoning, and die of it. It's as simple as ABC Your nuciform sac is full of decaying matter — undigested food and waste products — rank ptomaines. Now you take my advice, Ridgeon. Let me cut it out for you. Youll be another man afterwards.
Sayfa iii - That any sane nation, having observed that you could provide for the supply of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should go on to give a surgeon a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg, is enough to make one despair of political humanity.
Sayfa lxii - ... healthier, and live longer than the class which never dreams of possessing such things. It does not take much perspicacity to see that what really makes this difference is not the tall hat and the umbrella, but the wealth and nourishment of which they are evidence, and that a gold watch or membership of q club in Pall Mall might be proved in the same way to have the like sovereign virtues.

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