The Sources of Health and Disease in Communities: Or, Elementary Views of "Hygiène," Illustrating Its Importance to Legislators, Heads of Families, &c

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Allen and Ticknor, 1833 - 160 pages
 

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Page 140 - And you, good .yeomen. Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not ; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Page 103 - All the civilized nations of antiquity have condemned the custom of interment in cities. Wherever he travels, the antiquarian finds in the environs of the great ancient cities, tumuli, necropolis, funereal temples, vaults, excavations in caverns, masses of masonry of the most astounding magnitude, such as the pyramids — wonders of the old world, that appear to have survived the wreck of ages, to teach us an important lesson — a lesson, however, as yet unattended to in this country. The mummies...
Page 45 - Landau, in 1793, eight were affected by a species of cretinism, and died before the expiration of the fifth year; thirty-three languished through a miserable existence of from nine to ten months...
Page 64 - ... room where they worked, without engaging in the most bloody strife. The room was thought to be enchanted or bewitched. At length it was discovered, that the whole blame of these terrible disputes was attributable to a large packet of the seeds of hyosciamus, placed near a stove ; and their removal caused a perfect restoration of peace.
Page 108 - ... the burial-ground of St. Eustace, in Paris, were moved in 1780, and of a number of children who were proceeding to the church to be questioned in their catechism, some fell down in a state of syncope, whilst other were subjected to other indispositions. Three workmen who had entered the vault died. These and numberless other instances that might be quoted, induced the French government to prohibit interments in or near the town ; and it was once in contemplation to burn the dead bodies, according...
Page 104 - Nicodemus also, he who at the first went to him by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and 40 aloes, about a hundred pounds weight. Then they took the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the manner of the Jews in preparing for burial. 41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no 42 one had ever been laid. There then, on account of the Jews' preparation-day, they laid Jesus ; for the tomb was at hand.
Page 83 - Nec tamen omnino temere illis solibus ulla comparebat avis, nec tristia saecla ferarum exibant silvis. Languebant pleraque morbo et moriebantur. Cum primis fida canum vis strata viis animam ponebat in omnibus aegre; extorquebat enim vitam vis morbida membris.
Page 63 - ... him as effectually as if he had swallowed a portion of their substance. Snuff-takers, persons whose olfactory organs are rendered less sensitive by the constant use of a pungent plant, are frequently distressed by nausea, if some new perfume be added to their snuff. We may conceive the effect that pungent odours must have on the susceptible nerves of the refined and sensitive, when we see the fury they produce in brute animals : it has happened sometimes in cattle fairs, that mischievous persons...
Page 107 - We cannot afford space to relate all the accidents of a similar nature that occurred at the beginning of the French revolution; when, on account of the insalubrity of the church and neighbourhood of the cemetery of the Innocents, the government determined to have the remains of the bodies removed. M. Thouret himself, who was director of these operations, narrowly escaped death from a putrid fever which he contracted in the performance of his duties. Those who only refer to works of general literature,...
Page 104 - Parriset, who were expressly deputed to Egypt by the French government, to investigate the nature of the plague. It is their opinion, that the very , superficial mode of interment that prevails there, materially contributes to it. At almost every village, they' found, near the habitations of the Arabs, mounds crumbling away, and exhibiting the naked bones of those who had been buried in them. In the whole of Lower Egypt, corpses are merely thrown on the surface of the earth.

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