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Man with No Name

By: Wally Amos

...ctor allayed our fears when he explained there was no danger and that the transfusion was rou­ tine. Shirlee came home without Shawn, who had to rema... ...y living. Consider not being able to read food packages, instructions on medicine bottles, street signs, grocery lists, love letters or job ap­ plic...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

...long history with English as a primary language has made its graduates in medicine, information technology and mathematics more valuable in our globa... ...ledge of the Indian medical community they do a great deal of research in medicine and in the pharmaceutical fields. They also manufacture a large a... ...HIV without being at fault, like people who got it from contaminated blood transfusions and innocent wives infected by wayward husbands. Our people a...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...t import some acupuncturists and some ginseng and junk this whole Western medicine model. 142 —―Are we ready for socialized medicine-- wit... ... if it was picked up innocently from an infected mate or an infected blood transfusion? ―What about heart transplants or coronary by-passes fo... ... the solutions?‖ HEALTH CARE AND AGING POPULATIONS —―Socialized medicine carries huge social costs. ―Health care costs, as a perce... ...ighest percentage of GDP in the world and they don‘t even have socialized medicine. If the pattern since 1960 is any indication, increases could be ... ...if it was picked up innocently from an infected mate or an infected blood transfusion? 152 HIGH TAXES ―Financing a welfare system requir... ... also spend more for the same drugs than do the countries with socialized medicine. ―It‘s really not fair that the individual American consu... ...id against another for 154 somewhat similar drugs. So in a socialized medicine country the consumer may not be able to get the best drug, especi...

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A Courageous Battle

By: Susan Bracken

... “Why are you doing that?” Lacey asked. “You should be asking for the real medicine.” CHAPTER 15 90 SUSAN BRACKEN Jake just shrugged. For years, in h... ... want to be alive any more. Will you help me do that? Will you give me the medicine that will let me die painlessly – pentobarbital is it?” Murmurs sw... ...ased you like it. Wines are one of the few things I’ve studied, outside of medicine. “This one’s for special occasions.” “There you go again! Do you h... ...wn a bit, and Lacey began to feel joyful that she had been able to get the medicine that would make her last days peaceful. Just knowing she would not... ...iny amounts necessary to administer pain and anxiety medication); no blood transfusions; no sur- gery; no cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Then consider... ...inhalation in a pre-filled environ- ment, The American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, in press 2010 [R.D. Ogden] Choosing not to be: Christ...

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The Emerald Dagger

By: Barbara M. Hodges

...If it had nicked an intestine, peritonitis would set in, and their primitive medicines wouldn’t be able to combat it. Even if there wasn’t an infectio... ...s grandson. Delilah was at the hospital right now getting the results of the transfusion. Delilah had moved in with him. He never asked about her vis...

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The Soul Bearer

By: Jonathan Cross

...histle. Fact: Investigative reporting was his life's blood. Assignment-a blood transfusion. Fiction: Matloch was not involved. Fiction: Hanford an... ..." she said, be­ coming more alert. "You must be chosen. It takes many power­ ful Medicine men to have such a ceremony. Why have they chosen Matloch?"... ...of Politics. Ryan's hate festered like an unhealing infection that no amount of medicine could cure. After years of carrying out 'Special Assignment...

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Louis Lambert

By: Honoré de Balzac

... brain at our will; the marvels of the touch, the instrument of the mental transfusions of a myriad artists, 45 Balzac whose creative fingers are abl... ...er in the Rue Saint-Jacques talks nonsense. The lecturer at the College of Medicine abuses him of the Col- lege de France. When I first arrived, I wen... ... two facts would then be additional evidence in favor of his theory of the transfusion of Will. I was conscious of strange disturbances, transcending ...

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

...r want of blood to keep the heart’s action as it should be. There must be a transfusion of blood at once. Is it you or me?” “I am younger and stron... ...y friend John and I have consulted, and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood, to transfer from full veins of one to the empty vei... ..., and coming over to the bed, said cheerily, “Now, little miss, here is your medicine. Drink it off, like a good child. See, I lift you so that to swa... ...tness, but with absolute method, Van Helsing performed the operation. As the transfusion went on, something like life seemed to come back to poor Lucy... ..., Dr. Van Helsing!” “Yes, my dear, but not for you to play with. These are medicines.” Here Lucy made a wry face. “Nay, but they are not to take in ... ... to set out on the little table the instruments for yet another operation of transfusion of blood. I had long ago rec ognized the necessity, and begu... ... “What are we to do now? Where are we to turn for help? We must have another transfusion of blood, and that soon, or that poor girl’s life won’t be wo... ...elsing is off to the British Museum look ing up some authorities on ancient medicine. The old physicians took account of things which their follow e... ...uld understand how much I need your help. Well, I saw I must try to help the medicine to its work with my will, if it was to do me any good, so I reso...

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The Island Of

By: H. G. Wells

...oreau? He had published some very astonishing facts in connection with the transfusion of blood, and in addition was known to be doing valuable work o... ...bominations; and now I thought I saw it all. The memory of his work on the transfusion of blood recurred to me. These creatures I had seen were the vi... ...amples that will, no doubt, be familiar to you. A similar operation is the transfusion of blood,—with which subject, indeed, I began. These are all fa... ...I went to Montgomery again and knelt beside him, curs- ing my ignorance of medicine. The fire beside me had sunk down, and only charred beams of timbe...

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Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

By: Dr. Martin Luther

...w faith justifies without works? Sin lin- gers in us, and God hates sin. A transfusion of righteousness therefore becomes vitally necessary. This tran... ...ter potion to a patient, he does it to cure the patient. The fact that the medicine is bitter is no fault of the physician. The malady calls for a bit... ...cine is bitter is no fault of the physician. The malady calls for a bitter medicine. Paul wants the Galatians to judge his words according to the situ...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...that she, assured of it as she was by experience of him, was touched, in a transfusion of her feelings through lucent globes of admiration and of tend... ... consults her chemist, and thinks she ‘ll try it herself. It’s a basket of medicine bottles driven to Regent’s Park pretty well every day.’ ‘Ha! Regen...

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...instruction agreeable to youth, and of T asso’s infusion of honey into the medicine prepared for a child; but an age in which children are taught the ... ...ferred them to her commonplace book, among choice receipts for cookery and medicine, favourite texts, and portions from High Church divines, and a few... ..., therefore, on the manner of the treatment, but rewarded the professor of medicine with a liberality beyond the utmost conception of his wildest hope... ...is peremptory order the Bailie, though he felt as if condemned to suffer a transfusion of blood from his own veins into those of the Baron, did not pr...

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The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By: The Manhattan Engineer District

...ed gamma rays which have wave-lengths even shorter than the X-rays used in medicine. All of these radiations travel at the same speed; this, the speed... ... injury has the advantage of custom, since it is gener- ally understood in medicine to refer to X-ray effect as dis- tinguished from the effects of ac... ... Liver and calcium preparations were admin- istered by injection and blood transfusions were used to combat hemorrhage. Special vitamin preparations a... ...re of the burns. Father Rektor who, before taking holy orders, had studied medicine, ministers to the injured, but our bandages and drugs are soon gon... ... seven of us rush toward the city. Father Rektor comes along with food and medicine. The closer we get to the city, the greater is the evidence of des...

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Life of Johnson

By: James Boswell

...epid moisture.’ One of the com- pany took the other side, maintaining that medicines of various sorts, and some too of most powerful effect, are intro... ...now, intellectu- ally, Hermippus redivivus, I am quite restored by him, by transfusion of mind.’ ‘There are many (she replied) who admire and respect ... ...d him as a physician, if his mind was not at ease; for he believed that no medicines would have any influence. He once attended a man in trade, upon w... ...influence. He once attended a man in trade, upon whom he found none of the medicines he prescribed had any effect: he asked the man’s wife privately w... ...ree of the eminent physi- cians who had chairs in our celebrated school of medicine at Edinburgh, Doctors Cullen, Hope, and Monro. All of them paid th...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...he leisure class. As one channel, and an important one, through which this transfusion of aristocratic views of life, and consequently more or less ar... ... chances of survival of barbarian traits greater also outside the range of transfusion of leisure-class blood. But little if anything has been done to... ...en to the collective life process — very much after the analogy of what in medicine would be called a benign tumor, with some tendency to transgress t... ...nated by habits of industry and thrift, so long the remi- niscences of the medicine-man have found but a scant and precarious acceptance in the scheme...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...the dominated race, that a certain sympathy is begotten, or at the least a transfusion of prejudices, mak- ing life easier for both. But the Englishma... ...what awful figure; and my aunt had given him a dose of our good old Scotch medicine, Dr. Gregory’s powder. Now that rem- edy, as the work of a near ki...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...cordially. His Clara, jealous of this poor leaf! He could have desired the transfusion of a quality or two from Laetitia to his bride; but you cannot,... ...ect, for he could speak very kindly, and she regarded him as her doctor of medicine, who would at least present the futile drug. “Good morning,” she r... ...ke it, if you please. I’m bound to ease a Rendon patient out of the world. Medicine’s one of their superstitions, which they cling to the harder the m... ... you have been aware of a singular odour; you must consent to sip some, as medicine; merely to give you warmth.” “Impossible, Mr. Whitford: I could no... ... is not in the right humour.” She choked. There are times when there is no medicine for us in sages, we want slaves; we scorn to temporize, we must ov... ...ore you. I am ready to stake my own health—never yet shaken by a doctor of medicine:—I say medicine advisedly, for there are doctors of divinity who w...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...at man. His Homer is rather an adap- tation than a translation—far less a “transfusion” of the Gre- cian bard. Pope does not, indeed, clothe the old b... ... who rest. Is any sick? the Man of Ross relieves, Prescribes, attends, the medicine makes, and gives. 270 Is there a variance? enter but his d...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...he pupil is brought into the same state or prin- ciple in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and ... ...o straight to affairs. ’ So they jumped the Greek and Latin, and read law, medicine, or sermons, without it. To the astonishment of all, the self- mad...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

..., three score years before, made her so horrible a restrictive and binding medicine, and whereby all her larris, arse-pipes, and conduits were so oppi... ... said physician purged him canonically with Anticyrian hellebore, by which medicine he cleansed all the alteration and perverse habitude of his brain.... ...al- ity, by which you are stirred up to venery. I find in our fac- ulty of medicine, and we have founded our opinion therein upon the deliberate resol... ... sad and dismal consequences; or whether those sensations be produced by a transfusion of the serene or gloomy, aerial or terrestrial, joyful or melan... ...ve for all your problems, gentle- men, answered Pantagruel; and one single medicine for all such symptoms and accidents. My answer shall be short, not...

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