... some fallacy, 54 THE MEDICAL PILOT J without reference to the context. " Go wash " was only hy its simplicity used to test the efficacy of the faith of the patient, while the Pool of Siloam had no more healing qualities, no doubt, than the rivers and brooks ...

... to the transmission of lumi- nous and sonorous vibrations. Vertical Section ... gases, with reference to respiration, 272 ; by the bloodvessels, 247 ; by ...

... tone has its counterpart in the number of vibrations per second, the duration ... objective references, pleas- ure and pain have no objective references ...

... though not so often as he wishes, brings healing. — Robert Louis Stevenson ... profession. References 1. Shorter, E: The history of the doctor- ...

... there be any probabihty that a law of healing exists in nature. But authorities can not give the answer; it is a ques- * Works of Sydenham. VoL I, pp. 12-17.—Sydenham Society's Edition. 8 THE PRINCIPLE tion of analogy ; and it can be answered only by a reference to what is found to be true in ...

... impressions are produced upon nerves by wave-like vibrations in the sur- rounding air. This is the ... of sight. All sounds arc produced by the vibration of some body in the atmosphere. The body ...

... nature vastly more subtle than air, by whose vibrations sound is propagated, by which light commu- nicates ... may be gathered from the swiftness of its vibrations. Sounds move about 1140 English feet in a ...

... the medium of a suspended funnel; the resultant vibration produces movements in the glass lever. These movements ... When the lateral opening is closed, heart sound vibrations are obtained, some of which are superimposed upon ...

... first described; and which he attributed to the vibration, depending on a regular intermittence in the force ... many fibres, they choke pr muffle each other's vibrations; hence the sound is dull and prolonged, rather ...

... line of extended dulness, a peculiar jelly-like vibration is sometimes perceptible by the finger used to ... of respiratory sound and of vocal resonance and vibration, with exaggerated or puerile respiration on the sound ...