... to one word in this quotation— preference implies comparison, and it is remarkable that while reasons arc as “ thick as blackberries” in advocacy of the new therapeutic experiment, there is not a word advanced against the former hospital system, and which ...

... rational, and humane letter bo entered on the minutes. MULTIPLICATION OF MEDICAL COLLEGES. New Colleges start up as thick as blackberries, and old Colleges only think of bow they can increase and multiply. In 1844 the Secretary of State introduced a bill into ...

... EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL PRESS. Sir,—At a time when new medical and surgical collegesaarto as you say, “starting up as thick as blackberries,” many persons, with myself, feel interested in inquiring what steps, if any, Alma Mater may be taking to help forward ...

... the very men who joined in that cry are the most systematic of public advertisers. The advertisements of are as thick as blackberries, not only in the Times, but even in the sporting newspapers. Then, again, there are dissentients to the maxim of Shakspeare ...

... appears that on Sunday a party of lads, from the neighbourhood of Richmond-hill, Leeds, went out into the country to gather blackberries. They were attracted by a dark-purple fruit, and asked a farmer what it was. He replied that it was the mulberry he told ...

... between her meals; indeed, her friends used to know where she had been, and which wav she had walked, by these vomited blackberries and other things the side of the pathway. Tps vears and the onlv way in which she appeared 10 from it was from weakness ...

... butter. Let us see and watch what another magistrate will do. At Wandsworth complaints of adulterated bread are as thick as blackberries, and search-warrants and seizures are flying about. It will be amusing to see how the bakers will wriggle out of their ...

... sure that, if once this lax discipline become an admitted rule of action, these cases—cases of humanity—will as plenty as blackberries. They, however, who go for the exceptional view, however good their intentions may be, quite forget to explain away the ...

... the first day I used to visit at the hospital, and dress there; ulcerated legs, the opprobrium chirurgicum were plenty as blackberries ; and though there were certain lines of treatment laid down, yet we often had the power of exercising our own ingenuity ...

... kicking and racing or coursing, and tremors. The seeds, contained in beautiful dark purple luscious berries, resembling the blackberry, and equally tempting to children, and the young shoots, like asparagus in taste and appearance, are the poisonous portions ...

... operation when Dr. Conant called to see her again, she bad taken her and had ridden five miles among the mountains to pick blackberries; the ligatures not having yet come away. The tumour weighed about forty pounds. Dr. Conant expected trouble with the peritoneum ...

... the natural orders Crucifersß, Labiate, Orchidete, and Liliaceae. Professor Gbeknk. 6. Compare the fruits of the Cherry, Blackberry, and Rose. 7. Define the terms stem,” seed,” and petiole.” ...