A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary

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J.W. Arrowsmith Limited, 1917 - 507 páginas
 

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Página 83 - Woodward, a physician of eminence at that day, and distinguished by his correct taste. On one of his visits, being led into conversation with his patient on subjects of literature, he forgot the purpose of his visit in the fascination of her talk ; till suddenly recollecting himself, when he was half-way down stairs, he cried out, " Bless me ! I forgot to ask the girl how she was ;' and returned to the room, exclaiming, " How are you to-day, my poor child?
Página 211 - I have taken again to my old coat and old shoes ; dine at the reasonable hour of four, enjoy as I used to do the wholesome indulgence of a nap after dinner, drink tea at six, sup at half-past nine, spend an hour over a sober folio and a glass of black currant rum with warm water and sugar, and then to bed.
Página 82 - Framed every tie that binds the heart to prove, Her duty friendship, and her friendship love. But yet, remembering that the parting sigh Appoints the just to slumber, not to die, The starting tear I check'd, — I kiss'd the rod, — And not to earth resign'd her, but to God ! SILENT WORSHIP.
Página 357 - IN Angel-Court the sunless air Grows faint and sick ; to left and right The cowering houses shrink from sight, Huddled and hopeless, eyeless, bare.
Página 26 - For the lower class of people are at this day so far degenerated from what they were in former times as to become a matter of astonishment and a proverb of reproach.
Página 134 - A man of more honour and more ability, in every respect, is not of my acquaintance. He it was that, with Mr. Champion, first invited me to Bristol. Without his encouragement I should not think of Bristol now.
Página 200 - ... history of our school. Near the end of the Lent term of lectures, in 1768, the Professor invited two friends to see an interesting dissection, which he had prepared to illustrate his lecture for March 26th. The body •was one which had been procured from a resurrectionist, who had brought it from town. The friends accompanied him to the room and during the dissection one of them uncovered the face of the body and recognized it as that of Lawrence Sterne, whom he had known in his life time. Poor...
Página 134 - ... made by those who wish to quit the ground they formerly stood on ; and to qualify some personal interest or some subordinate faction, at the expense of every public and manly principle. Those who pretend to go off on these pretences, in their minds were gone before. As to what you say of Mr. Harford, I perfectly agree with you. A man of more honour and more ability, in every respect, is not of my acquaintance.
Página 97 - ... years he was in the possession of a large and lucrative city business. In 1811 his private engagements had become so numerous, that he was compelled to resign his office at the hospital, and for many subsequent years was the acknowledged head of his profession in the city. History does not supply us with a physician more loved or more respected than was Dr. Babington.
Página 388 - In addition to all of his other civic good works, during the last few years of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century his old college recaptured Ginn's sympathy.

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