The Maintenance of healthG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1875 - 366 páginas |
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action active alcohol amidst animals becomes betwixt blood bodily body bowels brain cachexia carbonic acid cause child chloral hydrate cholera climates clothes cold cold feet combined common commonly condition consequences consumption danger decay desirable diarrhoea diathesis digestion disease disinfectants disturbance draught drink effects enteric fever especially excessive exer exercise existence feel fluid force frequently furnished gout growth gutta-percha habits important individual induced influence inherited injurious labor less liable loss of heat manifest material matter meat mental milk mind muscles muscular natural nerve nervous system nitrogen occupation organs overwork oxygen pain parents perfect period persons physiological physique poison practice produced question requisite respiration respiratory foods result scarlatina sensations sewage sewer gas sewers sick skin sleep small-pox stimulants suffer supply syphilis temperature thought tion tissues toil tubercle typhoid fever usually vaccination vegetable ventilation viscera warm
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Página 5 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth...
Página 363 - The character of the reputed ancestors of some men has made it possible for their descendants to be vicious in the extreme without being degenerate. Those of your Grace, for instance, left no distressing examples of virtue even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree in which heraldry has not left a single ;gooil quality upon record to insult or upbraid you*.
Página 365 - Friedenwald and Ruhrah on Diet Diet in Health and Disease. By JULIUS FRIEDENWALD, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Stomach, and JOHN RUHRAH, MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.
Página 363 - First lived and died a hypocrite. Charles the Second was a hypocrite of another sort, and should have died upon the same scaffold. At the distance of a century, we see their different characters happily revived and blended in your grace. Sullen and severe without religion, profligate without gayety, you live like Charles the Second, without being an amiable companion; and, for aught I know, may die as his father did, without the reputation of a martyr.
Página 156 - My opinion is, that neither spirit, wine, nor malt liquor is necessary for health. The healthiest army I ever served with had not a single drop of any of them ; and although it was exposed to all the hardships of Kaffir warfare at the Cape of Good Hope, in wet and inclement weather, without tents or shelter of any kind, the sick-list seldom exceeded one per cent. ; and this continued not only throughout the whole of the active operations in the field during the campaign, but after the men were collected...
Página 363 - There are some hereditary strokes of character, by which a family may be as clearly distinguished, as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First lived and died a hypocrite. Charles the Second was a hypocrite of another sort, and should have died upon the same scaffold. At the distance of a century, we see their different characters happily revived and blended in your Grace. Sullen and severe, without religion, profligate without gaiety...
Página 366 - SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS for DWELLINGS, intended for the Use of Officers of Health, Architects, Builders, and Householders. With 116 Illustrations. By WILLIAM EASSIE, CE, FLS, FGS, &c., Author of 'Healthy Houses.
Página 366 - Skin, the Kidneys, Nervous System, Organs of Sense, &c., &c., &c. "Dr Lawson has succeeded in rendering his manual amusing as well as instructive. All the great facts in human physiology are presented to the reader successively; and either for private reading or for classes, this manual will be found well adapted for initiating the uninformed into the mysteries of the structure and function of their own bodies."— Athenceum.
Página 126 - A few days' feeding with flesh, rendered him savage, prone to bite, and even dangerous to his keeper. The carnivorous are in general stronger, bolder, and more pugnacious than the herbivorous animals on which they prey. In like manner, those nations which live on vegetable food, differ in disposition from those which live chiefly on flesh.
Página 310 - In other words, the fatality of small-pox, in Copenhagen, is but an eleventh of what it was ; in Sweden, a little over a thirteenth ; in Berlin, and in large parts of Austria, but a twentieth ; in Westphalia, but a twenty-fifth. In the last-named instance there now die of small-pox but four persons where formerly there died a hundred.