Medical, Matrimonial and Scientific Expositor: Giving the Most Important Information Upon Every Subject Relating to Man and Woman ...

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1868 - 367 pages
 

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Page 313 - M., wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer : I will.
Page 334 - ... the appellation of benevolence,) these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse morsel with a double relish.
Page 334 - ... actions have been performed in so free, and so kind a manner, that if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse morsel with a double relish.
Page 272 - And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?
Page 313 - I, M., take thee, N., to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my faith.
Page 334 - I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden...
Page 263 - ... result is obtained and it appears impossible for any fact to be supported by more decisive testimony. Yet in the space of a few short years the boasted remedy has lost its virtue; the disease no longer yields to its power while its place is supplied by some new remedy, which, like its predecessor, runs through the same career of expectation, success, and disappointment.
Page 313 - With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Page 255 - ... absorbent system ; and Malpighi, Hooke, and others, explained the structure and functions of the lungs. Boyle disengaged chemistry from the mystery by which it was surrounded, and explained its true province to be, not the manufacture of solid gold, nor liquid nostrums, nor gaseous theories, but " an investigation into the change of properties which bodies experience in their actions upon each other.
Page 81 - Symptoms. — The color of melanosis varies from a dark yellow to brown, deep blue, approaching to black, and to complete black, which is the most common. The secretion is easily detected by its peculiar shades of color in any part or organ containing it, as the surrounding tissues are lighter colored, and form a remarkable contrast with it ; it is usually of a pultaceous consistence, the tubercles pea-sized to walnutsized, and scattered in groups ; they are sometimes situated upon the surface, but...

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