The physician in English history / by Norman Moore.

  • Sir Norman Moore, 1st Baronet
Date:
1913
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Credit: The physician in English history / by Norman Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in my neck in which I mind me that in my girlhood I used to carry the useless burden of necklaces, and I believe that therefore Providence wills that I should suffer pain in my neck that thus I may be cleared from the accusation of vanity when now for gold and pearls the redness and heat of a swelling stand out in my neck.’” These are the words and meditations of a patient who has long had a suppurating swelling in the neck and such a swelling is rarely other than tuberculous. The words “ ac solita dicere” exclude the sudden onset and rapid course of an attack of bubonic plague. Cynifrid, who witnessed the illness, does not say a word of other deaths. The hymn writer who points out how his subject differs from those of Virgil and of Homer Bella Maro resonet, nos pads dona canamus ; Munera nos Christi, bella Maro resonet. Carmina casta mihi, fedae non raptus Helenae ; Luxus erit lubricis, carmina casta mihi.
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