The reception of healed lepers required the most careful preparations and most scrupulous manipulations.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
The different sciences to which you are required to turn your attention successively possess so many fascinations that you may attach to some an undue degree of importance; but be assured of this, that however accurate be your knowledge of anatomy, healthy and morbid, however skilful you may be in the chemical theories and manipulations, however extensively you may have mastered the necessary properties of botany, however well you are acquainted with the nature and properties of drugs-be assured, I say, that you have acquired all this knowledge in vain unless you have diligently studied symptoms at the bedside of the patient and have observed the consequences and causes of disease in the dead room.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh
She absolutely refused to permit any manipulations, and it was only with great difficulty that he finally succeeded in introducing the tube.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh