The Avoidable causes of disease, insanity, and deformityBoericke & Tafel, 1870 - 396 strani |
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Stran 67 - All sheep and oxen : yea, and the beasts of the field ; The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea : and whatsoever walketh through the paths of the seas.
Stran 29 - God breathed into man the breath of life, and he became a living soul...
Stran 280 - Taken by a healthy person in a moderate dose, it increases the force, fullness, and frequency of the pulse, augments the temperature of the skin, invigorates the muscular system, quickens the senses, animates the spirits, and gives new energy to the intellectual faculties. Its operation, while thus extending to all parts of the system, is directed with peculiar force to the brain, the functions of which it excites sometimes even to intoxication or delirium. In a short time this excitation subsides...
Stran xxi - ... the chief object desired, and it is the same with the various passions, and appetites of the individual man, as it is with a society of such men, they can only be restrained by each other, but not radically reformed. In order for a genuine and permanent reformation, man must be regenerated, or born again. The old man, or self-love, with his deeds, must be put off, and the new man, or love to the Lord and neighbor, put on. The great object of our lives will then be, to do right, to do good, and...
Stran 312 - Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright: at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Stran 346 - Women in this city have not sufficient means of employment. " Their employment is inadequately remunerated. "The associations of many employments are prejudicial to morality. " Six-sevenths of the prostitutes drink intoxicating liquors to a greater or less extent. " Parental influences induced habits of intoxication. " A professed respect for religion is common among them. " A capital of nearly four millions of dollars is invested in the business of prostitution.
Stran 194 - To suppose the youthful brain," says the recent admirable report, by Dr. Ray, of the Providence Insane Hospital, " to be capable of an amount of work which is considered an ample allowance to an adult brain, is simply absurd, and the attempt to carry this fully into effect must necessarily be dangerous to the health and efficacy of the organ.
Stran 205 - ... the constitution begins to be consolidated, but who enjoy the benefit of a good physical education, very soon surpass in their studies those who commenced study earlier, and read numerous books when very young.
Stran 161 - The only cases," continues Dr. M., " in which a moderate portion of malt liquor is justifiable, are when the milk is deficient, and the nurse averse or unable to put another in her place. Here, of two evils, we choose the least, and rather give the infant milk of an inferior quality, than endanger its health by weaning it prematurely, or stinting it of its accustomed nourishment...
Stran 161 - Considering, then, that lactation (unlike pregnancy) may be put an end to at any period, should it prove injurious to the mother, the writer is disposed to give his full assent to the dictum of Dr. Macnish; that if a woman cannot afford the necessary supply without these indulgences, she should give over the infant to some one who can, and drop nursing altogether.'—'The only cases,