The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English: Or, Medicine Simplified

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published at the World's Dispensary Printing Office and Bindery, 1889 - 1008 páginas
 

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Página 265 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend: Nor shall she fail to see E'en in the motions of the storm Grace that shall mould the maiden's form By silent sympathy. 'The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Página 265 - The floating clouds their state shall lend To her ; for her the willow bend ; Nor shall she fail to see, Even in the motions of the Storm, Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Página 248 - ... days. Admitting that each beat of the heart was as strong during the alcoholic period as in the water period (and it was really more powerful), the heart on the last two days of alcohol was doing one-fifth more work. Adopting the lowest estimate which has been given of the daily work done by the heart, viz., as equal to 122 tons lifted one foot...
Página 810 - But all in all sufficient to itself Would make a hell of Heaven— can exorcise From out the unbounded spirit the quick sense Of its own sins— wrongs— sufferance— and revenge Upon itself; there is no future pang Can deal that justice on the self-condemned He deals on his own soul.
Página 22 - The face is composed of fourteen bones : viz., the two nasal, two superior maxillary, two lachrymal, two malar, two palate, two inferior turbinated, vomer, inferior maxillary.
Página 221 - SOLAR light, in passing through a dark room, reveals its track by illuminating the dust floating in the air. ' The sun,' says Daniel Culverwell, ' discovers atomes, though they be invisible by candle-light, and makes them dance naked in his beams.
Página 252 - ... from the deep recesses of human nature. I am not so obstinate as to deny this argument. There are times in the life of man when the heart is oppressed, when the resistance to its motion is excessive, and when blood flows languidly to the centres of life, nervous and muscular. In these moments alcohol cheers. It lets loose the heart from its oppression, it lets flow a brisker current of blood into the failing organs ; it aids nutritive changes, and altogether is of temporary service to man.
Página 158 - ... *A carpenter fell into a quarrel with a soldier billeted in his house, and was set upon by the latter with his drawn sword. The wife of the carpenter at first trembled from fear and terror, and then suddenly threw herself furiously between the combatants, wrested the sword from the soldier's hand, broke it in pieces, and threw it away. During the tumult, some neighbors came in and separated the men.
Página 615 - General Government from lands disposed of as Indian reservations, and by the location of military warrants, and to fix the compensation of such agent. I became satisfied upon investigation of the subject, that under the law, no claim for the fund arising from military warrants would be allowed, and that it would be a waste of time and money to present it. I appointed Mr. Joseph R.
Página 222 - I was by no means prepared for this result ; for I had thought that the dust of our air was, in great part, inorganic and non-combustible.

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