A New era for womenH. Bill, 1896 - 371 pages |
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Page 9 - IN this refulgent summer it has been a luxury to draw the breath of life. The grass grows, the buds burst, the meadow is spotted with fire and gold in the tint of flowers.
Page 9 - The air is full of birds, and sweet with the breath of the pine, the balm-of-Gilead, and the new hay. Night brings no gloom to the heart with its welcome shade. Through the transparent darkness the stars pour their almost spiritual rays. Man under them seems a young child, and his huge globe a toy. The cool night bathes the world as with a river, and prepares his eyes again for the crimson dawn.
Page 317 - When we consider how sligfet a cause may interrupt the normal operations of this delicate and highly complex machine called the human organism, how careful and watchful of its health we should be. These natural conditions and beneficient tendencies of the organism may be perverted by various causes such as injury, cold, inflammation, embolism, local or general depression of vitality, etc. For centuries men have climbed mountains, crossed oceans, bridged chasms, delved into the bowels of the earth,...
Page 316 - It is exceedingly difficult to say where asepsis ends and antisepsis begins, for asepsis is usually attained by an antecedent antisepsis. Undoubtedly the greatest of all antiseptics and germicides is health. It is only when the natural and normal efficiency is vitiated that Nature becomes dependent upon Art. The healthy tissues of the human body neither harbor infectious organisms nor favor or aid their subsequent development when introduced. Indeed there cannot now be the slightest doubt but that...
Page 332 - I want to tell you, with all due emphasis, with all due solemnity, that from the beginning to the end of the nursing months of its life, if you feed your babe more than four times in twenty-four hours, if these times are regulated by cryings and not by regular periods, you will by so much make possible a discharge of your nurse, to be succeeded by the undertaker. And these words might be rightfully chiseled on the headstone, " Died from the ignorance of its mother...
Page 316 - ... channels. Cunningham and others have proven that bacteria are frequently destroyed in the blood; Vaughan too has demonstrated the germicidal power of the nuclein of blood-serum. Wyssokowicz claimed that those organisms which are not destroyed rapidly in the blood are deposited materially in the tissues, just as is done in the case of particles of pigment. He introduced anthrax bacilli, in small quantities, into the blood of rabbits and found that they disappeared...
Page 37 - ... (6) The mind is often clear to the last moment of life, even when the body has become emaciated to the skeleton degree. This could not be if the brain had become emaciated. (c) The tissues do disappear during sickness, and what becomes of them if they are not used to feed the brain, and perhaps also the...
Page 92 - Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy .son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates...
Page 24 - is an inherited possibility, which every violation of the laws of life tends to develop. It is never simply an attack on a well person, but rather a summing-up of the more or less lifelong violations of health laws.