Paul (VI. xxii) says, ‘Some after excision of the flesh use a perforator, and make a passage for the fluid or matter to the nose, but we are content with [Pg 118] burning alone, using the cauteries for fistula lachrymalis (αἰγιλωπικοῖς καυτηρίοις) and burning down till a lamina of bone exfoliates.’ Gamma-shaped Cautery.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
This instrument is described by Paul (VI. xxx) in the operation for removing the tonsils: ‘Wherefore, having seated the patient in the sunlight, and directed him to open his mouth, one assistant holds his head and another presses down the tongue with a tongue depressor.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
Paul (VI. xli) says that some have conceived for the purpose of scarifying before wet cupping an instrument compounded of three blades joined together in such a way that at one stroke three scarifications are made: Τινὲς οὖν ἐπενόησαν ὄργανον πρὸς τοῦτο, τρία σμιλία ἴσα ζεύξαντες ὁμοῦ, ὅπως τῇ μιᾷ ἐπιβολῇ τρεῖς γίνοιντο διαιρέσεις.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
Horsehair was used to raise a pterygium in Paul VI. xviii, but it is not mentioned as being used for suturing wounds.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
At this festival the magnificence displayed was such as had not been known in the little German place since the days of the prodigal Victor XIV.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
11 ‘Modern Painters,’ Part V. xix.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway
For forming issues over the spleen Paul (VI. xlviii) says: ‘Some pick up the skin with hooks and push through it a long cautery, and repeat this three times so that there are six eschars.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
From this kind of knowledge arises pleasure accompanied by the idea of God as cause, that is (Def. of the Emotions, vi.), the love of God; not in so far as we imagine him as present (V. xxix.), but in so far as we understand him to be eternal; this is what I call the intellectual love of God.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Paul (VI. xxxii) describes a forceps for removing foreign bodies from the pharynx: ‘Prickles, fish-bones and other substances are swallowed in eating and stick in different places.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
Paul (VII. xx) says oil of sesame is to be prepared from sesame pounded, softened, and pressed in a strainer with screws (διὰ κυρτίδων τῶν κοχλιῶν).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
37 V James I (1603-1625) 55 VI Charles I to the Protectorate (1625-1660) 61 VII The Restoration (1660) 80 VIII The Revolution (1688) 86 IX The Penal Code (1695-1727) 91 [Pg viii] X Anne to the Revolution of 1782 (1702-1782)
— from Irish History and the Irish Question by Goldwin Smith
What an Automobile Did 241 [Pg vi] XXVI.
— from Dave Porter and His Classmates; Or, For the Honor of Oak Hall by Edward Stratemeyer
iii, Jean V and towns, rural parishes (vol. xvi, p. 495).
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France
22 ff.; their obduracy, V. ix. 30 ; saved by Belisarius from abuse by the Romans, V. x. 29 , 34-36 ; kill Asclepiodotus, V. x. 46 ; impale the body of Pastor, V. x. 47 ; forgiven by Belisarius, V. x. 48 ; see also Naples Nero, Plain of, near Rome; a Gothic camp established there, V. xix.
— from Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Procopius
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