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... disorder occurs , the appetite flags , nature herself stops the supplies , which , instead of nourishing the body , would only increase the embarrassment of the functions ; but this is not understood , and the sick are too often tempted ...
... disorder occurs , the appetite flags , nature herself stops the supplies , which , instead of nourishing the body , would only increase the embarrassment of the functions ; but this is not understood , and the sick are too often tempted ...
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... disorder in some distant organ - in females , in the uterus . Refer to - Spine - Kidneys - Lumbago , & c . BACON . The flesh , or rather fat and flesh of the hog , salted and dried , and some- times smoked , forms the staple article of ...
... disorder in some distant organ - in females , in the uterus . Refer to - Spine - Kidneys - Lumbago , & c . BACON . The flesh , or rather fat and flesh of the hog , salted and dried , and some- times smoked , forms the staple article of ...
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... disorder resulting from local or constitutional causes . Such cases always require the care and consideration of a medical attendant BASILIC VEIN . - Frequently opened in the operation of bleeding from the arm.- SEE BLOOD - LETTING ...
... disorder resulting from local or constitutional causes . Such cases always require the care and consideration of a medical attendant BASILIC VEIN . - Frequently opened in the operation of bleeding from the arm.- SEE BLOOD - LETTING ...
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... disorder , should live sufficiently well , and , if accustomed to it , take a moderate proportion of wine or malt liquor ; but not , as many do , have recourse to extra potations of brandy , which can afford no power of resistance , but ...
... disorder , should live sufficiently well , and , if accustomed to it , take a moderate proportion of wine or malt liquor ; but not , as many do , have recourse to extra potations of brandy , which can afford no power of resistance , but ...
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... disorder , everything should be individually cleaned . The room itself ought to be papered , painted , or whitewashed afresh , the bed - frame taken down , scoured , and with other furniture exposed to the open air for some days ...
... disorder , everything should be individually cleaned . The room itself ought to be papered , painted , or whitewashed afresh , the bed - frame taken down , scoured , and with other furniture exposed to the open air for some days ...
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Página 461 - Now, the number of square inches of surface in a man of ordinary height and bulk is 2,500 ; the number of pores, therefore, 7,000,000, and the number of inches of perspiratory tube, 1,750,000— that is, 145,833 feet or 48,600 yards, or nearly 28 miles.
Página 380 - A poison is a substance which, when taken internally, is capable of destroying life without acting mechanically on the system.
Página 401 - But this was productive of temporary relief only, and what was worse, a more violent paroxysm frequently succeeded. The sensations arising from prickly heat are perfectly indescribable, being compounded of pricking, itching, tingling, and many other feelings for which I have no appropriate appellation. It is usually, but not invariably, accompanied by an eruption of vivid red pimples, not larger in general than a pin's head, which spread over the breast, arms, thighs, neck, and occasionally along...
Página 197 - We lately visited, in a large town, a boarding-school containing forty girls ; and we learnt, on close and accurate inquiry, that there was not one of the girls who had been at the school two years (and the majority had been as long,) that was not more or less crooked!
Página 461 - I counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3528 in a square inch. Now, each of these pores being the aperture of a little tube of about a quarter of an inch long, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand, there exists a length of tube equal to 882 inches, or 73i feet.
Página 26 - Arsenic, and so in proportion for any greater or less Quantity: Provided always, that where such Arsenic is stated by the Purchaser to be required, not for Use in Agriculture, but for some other Purpose for which such Admixture would, according to the Representation of the Purchaser, render it unfit, such Arsenic may be sold without such Admixture in a Quantity of not less than Ten Pounds at any One Time.
Página 495 - Barbadoes tar and linseed-oil, in the proportion of one of the former to three of the latter, will be the most effectual external application, while alteratives and physic should be given internally.