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Brewer's: Medicine

in alchemy, was that agent which brought about the transmutation of metals, or renewed old age; the philosopher's stone, and the elixir of life. How much unlike art thou, Mark Antony! Yet…

Love of God, Love of Man, Love of Country

by Frederick Douglass Speech on American Slavery I like radical measures, whether adopted by Abolitionists or slaveholders. I do not know but I like them better when adopted by the latter.…

Brewer's: Medicinal Days

The sixth, eighth, tenth, twelfth, sixteenth, eighteenth, etc., of a disease; so called because, according to Hippocrates, no “crisis” occurs on these days, and medicine may be safely…

Brewer's: Medicinal Hours

Hours proper for taking medicine, viz. morning fasting, an hour before dinner, four hours after dinner, and bed-time. (Quincy.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Emergency Medicine Resident

Scott C. Smithgall Tell us about your work---what do you do? I am an emergency medicine resident/physician . I have graduated from medical school…

Brewer's: Heroic Medicines

Those which either kill or cure. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Heroic SizeHeroic Age A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…

John Donne: Love's Alchemy

Love's AlchemySome that have deeper digg'd love's mine than I, Say, where his centric happiness doth lie. I have loved, and got, and told, But should I love, get, tell, till I…

John Donne: Love's Growth

Love's GrowthI scarce believe my love to be so pure As I had thought it was, Because it doth endure Vicissitude, and season, as the grass;…

medicine

(Encyclopedia) medicine, the science and art of treating and preventing disease. Modern medicine, characterized by growing specialization and a complex diagnostic and therapeutic technology, faces…