The Journal of Health, 2. köideS. C. Atkinson, 1831 |
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... half a dozen cases . In Philadelphia , if there be any , the number must be exceed- ingly small ; public conviction of a physician's being so , is promptly followed by a withdrawal of public confidence : thus ought it to be in every ...
... half a dozen cases . In Philadelphia , if there be any , the number must be exceed- ingly small ; public conviction of a physician's being so , is promptly followed by a withdrawal of public confidence : thus ought it to be in every ...
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... half an ordinary sized tea - spoonful . " As regards some anodynes , of home manufacture , impudently set forth as specifics for bowel diseases , we have been already accused of successfully throwing cold water on the zeal of the ...
... half an ordinary sized tea - spoonful . " As regards some anodynes , of home manufacture , impudently set forth as specifics for bowel diseases , we have been already accused of successfully throwing cold water on the zeal of the ...
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... half of his life , he enjoyed better health than before , and was perfectly free from the hypochondriac affection . " " The element of water is the greatest and only promoter of digestion . By its coldness and fixed air , it is an ...
... half of his life , he enjoyed better health than before , and was perfectly free from the hypochondriac affection . " " The element of water is the greatest and only promoter of digestion . By its coldness and fixed air , it is an ...
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... half . Now that he is a clergyman , in a village near Berne , he can walk twenty - four miles on foot , without incommoding himself ; and the exercises , which he has always continued , have occasioned , instead of his valetudinary ...
... half . Now that he is a clergyman , in a village near Berne , he can walk twenty - four miles on foot , without incommoding himself ; and the exercises , which he has always continued , have occasioned , instead of his valetudinary ...
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58 Maxims for the Decline of Life . for more than half a century , in books on all subjects -- for variety is the salt of the mind , as well as " the spice of life . " To admit every cheerful ray of sunshine on the imagination . To try ...
58 Maxims for the Decline of Life . for more than half a century , in books on all subjects -- for variety is the salt of the mind , as well as " the spice of life . " To admit every cheerful ray of sunshine on the imagination . To try ...
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Page 250 - And sin no more, as we have done by staying : But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-maying. " There's not a budding boy or girl this day, But is got up, and gone to bring in may.
Page 130 - And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him. And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 249 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 249 - Then came faire May, the fayrest mayd on ground, Deckt all with dainties of her season's pryde, And throwing flowres out of her lap around...
Page 115 - Shut from the common air, and common use Of their own limbs. How many drink the cup Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread Of misery. Sore pierced by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty.
Page 209 - ... beyond the caprice of their good pleasure, threw down the image from its pedestal ; it was not broken with the fall, and they would, it seems, again replace it, — but they shall not. " You ask about my health : about the beginning of the year I was in a state of great exhaustion, attended by such debility of stomach that nothing remained upon it ; and I was obliged to reform my ' way of life,' which was conducting me from the ' yellow leaf to the ground, with all deliberate speed.
Page 210 - I am rather less so now than I was at twenty, as far as my recollection serves? I do not know how to answer this, but presume that it is constitutional, — as well as the waking in low spirits, which I have invariably done for many years.
Page 297 - The interim of unsweating themselves regularly, and convenient rest before meat, may, both with profit and delight, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music, heard or learned ; either while the skilful organist plies his grave and fancied descant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artful and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer...
Page 297 - ... or the whole symphony, with artful and unimaginable touches, adorn and grace the well-studied chords of some choice composer; sometimes the lute, or soft organ-stop, waiting on elegant voices, either to religious, martial, or civil ditties; which, if wise men and prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over dispositions and manners, to smooth and make them gentle from rustic harshness and distempered passions.
Page 130 - They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.