 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...contemporaries he treated with the most illiberal intulence, telling ihctn that the very down of his bald pa'.e had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckle* of his shoes more learning than Galen or Avictrnna, and his beard more ex|>erience than all their academies. Having revived the doctrine... | |
 | Colin Mackenzie - Chemistry - 1822 - 774 pages
...performed. He treated the physicians of his time with the most illiberal insolence, telling them, '• that the very down on his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers ; the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen or Avicenna ; and his beard more experience than all... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Materia medica - 1824 - 330 pages
...them " that the very down of . his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna,...beard more experience than all their Universities." With such a temper it could not be supposed that he would long retain his chair ; in fact he quitted... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...affirmed " that tin- very down of his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna,...beard more experience than all their universities " ; and who evidently desired it to be understood that he had "dealings" with a certain gentleman who... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Science - 1851 - 640 pages
...telling them "that the very down of his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna,...beard more experience than all their universities;" he revived the extravagant doctrines of Raymond Lully concerning a universal medicine, and boasted... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1861 - 140 pages
...telling them " that the very down of his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna,...beard more experience than all their universities ;" he revived the extravagant doctrines of Raymond Lullycon\ cerning an universal medicine, and boasted... | |
 | Robert Evans Peterson - Science - 1863 - 598 pages
...telling them "that the very down of his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna,...beard more experience than all their universities;" he revived the extravagant doctrines of Raymond Lully concerning a universal medicine, and boasted... | |
 | John Charles Peters, Frederick Greenwood Snelling - Diseases - 1863 - 600 pages
...upon his bald pate had more knowledge than all the priest-doctors ; that the buckles on his shoes had more learning than Galen and Avicenna, and his beard more experience than all their university-taught priests. By the bold and free use of such powerful drugs as Opium, Antimony, and... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - Children's literature - 1864 - 1044 pages
...them " that the very down of his bald pate had more knowledge than all their -writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna,...beard more experience than all their universities ; " he revived the extravagant doctrines of Raymond Lully concerning a universal medicine, and boasted... | |
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He treated the physicians of his time with the most absurd vanity and illiberal insolence, telling them "that the very down of his bald pate had more knowledge than all their writers, the buckles of his shoes more learning than Galen and Avicenna, and... 