Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association of the United States of America for the Years ..., 8. köide

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Page 509 - And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
Page 365 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water, which they beat, to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 75 - WE live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breath; In feelings, not in figures on the dial." We should count time by heart-throbs when they beat For God, for man, for duty. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
Page 2 - The members of said board shall hold office for the term of one year and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Page 509 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old ; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Page 454 - The patient in most of the cases I have seen has been observed gradually to fall off in general health; he becomes languid and weak, indisposed to either bodily or mental exertion ; the appetite is impaired or entirely lost ; the whites of the eyes become pearly ; the pulse small and feeble, or perhaps somewhat large, but excessively soft and compressible ; the body wastes, without, however, presenting the dry and shrivelled skin and extreme emaciation usually attendant...
Page 454 - ... and distressing; and it is by no means uncommon for the patient to manifest indications of disturbed cerebral circulation. Notwithstanding these unequivocal signs of feeble circulation, anaemia, and general prostration, neither the most diligent inquiry, nor the most careful physical examination...
Page 204 - ... formative, for the blending of races has been going on scarcely long enough for one to see and tabulate results. The influence of the mother will be longer applied and its results more lasting than that of the evanescent father, and in this is their hope. For years we have been repeating the trite, "The sins of the father are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation...
Page 381 - Es-Souan resembled hare hair to the touch, and was all disposed in ringlets about the chin. This is, no doubt, to be accounted for by the extreme dryness of the air, which, operating through several thousand years, has, in the interior, changed the hair of the negro iuto a kind of coarse wool.
Page 59 - Be avaricious of time ; do not give any moment without receiving it in value; onlv allow the hours to go from you with as much regret as you give to your gold ; do not allow a single day to pass without increasing the treasure of your knowledge and virtue. The use of time is a debt we contract from birth, and it should only be paid with the interest that our life has accumulated.

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