 | Charles Rollin - History, Ancient - 1841 - 384 pages
...who was employed to visit the sick, has also described it as a physician, and Lucretius|| as a poet. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...seized, he was struck with despair, which quite disabled him from attempting a cure. The assistance that was given them was ineffectual, and proved mortal to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1841 - 498 pages
...into Egypt, thence travelling into Lib'ya and Persia, it at last broke like a flood upon Athens '. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate, nor any remedy dispel the infection. The instant a person was seized, he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1843 - 428 pages
...descended into Egypt, thence travelling into Lyb'ia and Persia, it at last broke like a flood upon Athens.* This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate, nor any remedy dispel the infection. The instant a person was seized, he... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Greece - 1851 - 396 pages
...descended into Egypt, thence travelling into Lyb'ia and Persia, it at last broke like a flood upon Athens.* This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks ; no skill could obviate, nor any remedy dispel the infection. The instant a person was seized, he... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1853 - 476 pages
...employed to visit the sick, has also descril>ed it in a medical,1 and Lucretius in a poetical way.f This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...robust constitutions were unable to withstand its attack ; and the greatest care and skill of tl>e physicians were a feeble help to tb<>»e who were... | |
 | Samuel Whelpley - History - 1856 - 590 pages
...thence into Lybia and Persia ; and, at last, broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baflled the utmost efforts of art. The most robust constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks. No skill could obviate, nor remedy dispel, the terrible infection. The instant a person was seized,... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1881 - 1308 pages
...who was employed to visit the sick, has also described it ar a physician, and Lucretius,"1 as a poet. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art...robust constitutions were unable to withstand its attack ( and the greatest care and skill of the physicians were a feeble help to those who were infected.... | |
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Libya and Persia, and at last broke like a flood upon Athens. This pestilence baffled the utmost efforts of art ; the most robust constitutions were unable to withstand its attacks; no skill could obviate, nor no remedy dispel, the terrible infection. 
