Hygiène; Or, The Hand-book of Health, in Two Parts ... |
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... diuretic action . Undoubtedly , this water is an objectionable beverage in respect of its several saline ingredients ; but my present object in adverting to them is rather to illustrate an anterior danger which they imply . Their ...
... diuretic action . Undoubtedly , this water is an objectionable beverage in respect of its several saline ingredients ; but my present object in adverting to them is rather to illustrate an anterior danger which they imply . Their ...
Էջ 108
... diuretic ; rum and whisky , sudorific . Spirits will sustain the animal heat during exposure to cold ; and in such cases are advantageous . The habitual use of spirits is decidedly detrimental ; it over - stimulates the stomach and ...
... diuretic ; rum and whisky , sudorific . Spirits will sustain the animal heat during exposure to cold ; and in such cases are advantageous . The habitual use of spirits is decidedly detrimental ; it over - stimulates the stomach and ...
Էջ 109
... diuretic . Green tea is still more powerful in its effects ; with some it gives rise to tremors , anxiety , sleeplessness , and most distressing feelings . Green tea is coloured with indigo in this country , and is poisonous : it should ...
... diuretic . Green tea is still more powerful in its effects ; with some it gives rise to tremors , anxiety , sleeplessness , and most distressing feelings . Green tea is coloured with indigo in this country , and is poisonous : it should ...
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Էջ 114 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Էջ 96 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and...
Էջ 83 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Էջ 25 - ... been so unaccountably overlooked. Charcoal not only absorbs effluvia and gaseous bodies, but especially, when in contact with atmospheric air, oxidizes and destroys many of the easily alterable ones, by resolving them into the simplest combinations they are capable of forming, which are. chiefly water and carbonic acid. It is on this oxidizing property of charcoal, as well as on its absorbent power, that its efficacy as a deodorizing and disinfecting agent chiefly depends.
Էջ 60 - The little regard which has hitherto been paid to the laws of the human constitution, as the true basis on which our attempts to improve the condition of man ought to rest, will be obvious from the fact, that, notwithstanding the direct uses to which a knowledge of the conditions which regulate the healthy action of the bodily organs may be applied, in the prevention, detection, and treatment of disease, there is scarcely a medical school in this country...
Էջ 41 - They also recommend, in regard to the general health of a town, " that the local administrative body have power to appoint, subject to the approval of the Crown, a medical officer properly qualified to inspect and report periodically upon the sanitary condition of the town or district, to ascertain the true causes of disease and death, more especially of epidemics increasing the rates of mortality, and the circumstances which originate and maintain such diseases, and injuriously affect the public...
Էջ 38 - Froebel, with our minds. There would be fewer sullen, quarrelsome, dull-witted men or women if there were fewer children starved or fed improperly in heart and brain. To improve society — to make men and women better — it is requisite to begin quite at the beginning, and to" secure for them a wholesome education during infancy and childhood.
Էջ 39 - ... observed. When weather forbids use of the garden, there is the great, airy room which should contain cupboards, with a place for every child's toys and implements ; so that a habit of the strictest neatness may be properly maintained. Up to the age of seven there is to be no book work and no ink work ; but only at school a free and brisk, but systematic strengthening of the body, of the senses, of the intellect, and of the affections, managed in such a way as to leave the child prompt for subsequent...
Էջ 125 - The attention must now be fixed upon the action in which the patient is engaged. He must depict to himself that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant that he brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all other ideas...
Էջ 84 - ... degree of warmth, produced by wearing more clothing of a different kind, does not produce the same effect. The perspiration of the human body being absorbed by a covering of flannel, it is immediately distributed through the whole thickness of that substance, and by that means exposed, by a very large surface, to be carried off by the atmosphere ; and the loss of this watery...