| 1823 - 508 sayfa
...every natural substance which possesses any medicinal virtue, indicates, by an obvious and well marked external character, the disease for which it is a remedy, or the objects for which it should be employed." Paracelsus, Baptista Porta, and Crollius, were renowned advocates... | |
| John Ayrton Paris - 1825 - 1036 sayfa
...that of the DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES, as it has been called, which ia no less than a belief that ecery natural substance which possesses any medicinal virtue,...traces of its existence may be certainly discovered in very ancient authors. The root of the Mandrake, from its supposed resemblance to the human form, was... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 648 sayfa
...celebrated medical theory called the " Doctrine of Signatures," "which is no less," says Dr. Paris*, " than a belief that every natural substance which possesses...the object for which it should be employed." This outward character was generally some feature of resemblance, real or fantastical, either to the effect... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1846 - 630 sayfa
...Doctrine of Signatures," " which is no less," says Dr. Paris,* " than a belief that every natural subtance which possesses any medicinal virtue, indicates by...the object for which it should be employed." This outward character was generally some feature of resemblance, real or fantastical, either to the effect... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1856 - 560 sayfa
...celebrated medical theory called the " Doctrine of Signatures," " which is no less," says Dr. Paris,* "than a belief that every natural substance which...the object for which it should be employed." This outward character was generally some feature of resemblance, real or fantastical, either to the effect... | |
| Richard Dennis Hoblyn - 1856 - 538 sayfa
...According-to this doctrine every natural substance which possesses any medicinal virtues, indicates, by an external character, the disease for which it is a...remedy, or the object for which it should be employed.] [SILENE. A genus of plants of the natural order SUenaeen.] [I. Silent Virginica. Catch fly ; Wild pink.... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 sayfa
...Doctrine of Signatures," " which is no less," says Dr. Paris,* " than a belief that every natural subtance which possesses any medicinal virtue, indicates by...the object for which it should be employed." This outward character was generally some feature of resemblance, real or fantastical, either to the effect... | |
| William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 sayfa
...pharmaceutists that every natural substance which possesses medicinal virtue, indicates, by an obvious external character, the disease for which it is a...remedy, or the object for which it should be employed. Hence, it was assumed that poppies must relieve diseases of the head, from the form of their seed-vessels;... | |
| William Thomas Brande, George William Cox - 1867 - 1090 sayfa
...pharmaceutists that every natural substance which possesses medicinal virtue, indicates, by an obvious ext.-rnal character, the disease for which it is a remedy, or the object for which it should be employed. Hence, it was assumed that poppies must relieve diseases of the htad, from the form tf their seed-vessels;... | |
| Thomas Fowler - 1870 - 372 sayfa
...which is no less than a belief that every natural substance which possesses any medicinal virtues, indicates, by an obvious and well-marked external...and Crollius, although traces of its existence may certainly be discovered in very ancient authors. ***** ' The conceit, however, did not assume the importance... | |
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