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Արդյունքներ 17–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... functions at last cease , and death ensues . This is a picture in an extreme degree . GRACE . Yet if , in this aggravated form , cold causes death , it must , even in a minor degree , be hurtful to the human body . MRS . F. People know ...
... functions at last cease , and death ensues . This is a picture in an extreme degree . GRACE . Yet if , in this aggravated form , cold causes death , it must , even in a minor degree , be hurtful to the human body . MRS . F. People know ...
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... Do you remember the second function of the skin ? GRACE . Was it not a regulation of the heat of the body ? MRS . F. Yes . It is well known that in the polar regions , and in the torrid zone the human body retains nearly 24.
... Do you remember the second function of the skin ? GRACE . Was it not a regulation of the heat of the body ? MRS . F. Yes . It is well known that in the polar regions , and in the torrid zone the human body retains nearly 24.
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... function is thus linked so closely , that we can neither act wrongly as regards one organ without all suffering ; nor rightly without all sharing the benefit . " GRACE . Wet feet , I suppose , are bad from the check they give ...
... function is thus linked so closely , that we can neither act wrongly as regards one organ without all suffering ; nor rightly without all sharing the benefit . " GRACE . Wet feet , I suppose , are bad from the check they give ...
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... functions of the skin that we have already discussed ? GRACE . Yes . The first function , exhalation , carries off the waste matter from the body ; the second is to regulate the heat of the body . MRS . F. Very well . We now come to its ...
... functions of the skin that we have already discussed ? GRACE . Yes . The first function , exhalation , carries off the waste matter from the body ; the second is to regulate the heat of the body . MRS . F. Very well . We now come to its ...
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... function , " Sensation . " The nerves are the seat of touch and sensation , and the skin is in all parts full of nerves , which makes it sensible to the contact of bodies . Had we no nerves , we might plunge our hands into the fire ...
... function , " Sensation . " The nerves are the seat of touch and sensation , and the skin is in all parts full of nerves , which makes it sensible to the contact of bodies . Had we no nerves , we might plunge our hands into the fire ...
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Էջ 71 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Էջ 28 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health.
Էջ 138 - Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of Hosts.
Էջ 42 - Unclogg'd the body, unobscured the mind : The morning rises gay, with pleasing stealth, The temperate evening falls serene and kind. In health the wiser brutes true gladness find. See how the younglings frisk along the meads, As May...
Էջ 26 - Female dress errs in one important particular, even when unexceptionable in material and quantity. From the tightness with which it is made to fit on the upper part of the body, not only is the insensible perspiration injudiciously and hurtfully confined, but that free play between the dress and the skin, which is so beneficial in gently stimulating the latter by friction at every movement of the body, is altogether prevented...
Էջ 77 - Accordingly, no fact in medicine is better established than that which proves the hereditary transmission from parents to children of a constitutional liability to pulmonary disease, and especially to consumption; yet no condition is less attended to in forming matrimonial engagements. The children of scrofulous and consumptive parents are generally precocious, and their minds being early matured, they engage early in the business of life, and often enter the married state before their bodily frame...
Էջ 86 - George was the first that entered; and, the place being crammed full with offenders, the atmosphere soon became pestilentially close. The poor boy in vain shrieked that he was about to be suffocated. At last, in despair, he bit the lad next to him violently in the hand. 'Crabbe is dying — Crabbe is dying...
Էջ 5 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Էջ 120 - He had valuable gifts, perfected by two years' academic, four years' collegiate, and three years' theological studies. He preached, gave much promise, and then died of a stomach disease. He contracted it when a student. He did not alternate bodily with mental labour, or he had lived and been a blessing to the church. When he entered on his studies, he was growing into full size and strength. He sat down till his muscles dwindled, his digestion became disordered, his chest contracted, his lungs_ congested,...