...to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is for the most part totally casual; they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficiency. This anthology, therefore, looks back into medicine's past and offers some clues as to...

...to be the mere plaything of Fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual; they that employ him, know not his excellence; they that reject him, know not his deficience. Lives of the Poets. Akenside Samuel Johnson; 1781 2563 Every man has found in physicians...

...position and qualifications. " A physician in a great city seems to be the "mere plaything of fortune They that employ him know "not his excellence; they that reject him know not his " deficiencies ;"§ but they are fully alive to reputability of general conduct, noble feeling, gentlemanly...

...seems to be the mere plaything of Fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most part casual ; they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know not his deficience." — SAMUEL JOHNSON. THESE words might with truth have been written of Dr. John Hutchinson,...

...city seems to be the plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, casual : they that employ him know not his excellence ; they that reject him know not his deficience." ROBERT JAMES. MD (1702-1776), had his early schooling at Lichfield where he was a school...

...city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune ; his degree of reputation is for the most casual : they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficiencies. By any acute observer who had looked on the medical world for half a century, a very...