The Medical Companion: Or Family Physician; Treating of the Diseases of the United States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, Cure and Means of Prevention: Common Cases in Surgery, as Fractures, Dislocations, &c. the Management and Diseases of Women and Children. A Dispensatory, for Preparing Family Medicine, and a Glossary Explaining Technical Terms. To which are Added, a Brief Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body, Shewing, on Rational Principles, the Cause and Cure of Diseases: an Essay on Hygiene, Or the Art of Preserving Health, Without the Aid of Medicine: an American Materia Medica, Pointing Out the Virtues and Doses of Our Medicinal Plants. Also, the Nurse's Guideproprietors, 1827 - 814 pages |
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... occasion , that I consider it , as indis- putably , the most useful popular treatise on medicine with which I am acquainted . Compared with the European Books of the same nature , it has , especially in relation to the treatment of the ...
... occasion , that I consider it , as indis- putably , the most useful popular treatise on medicine with which I am acquainted . Compared with the European Books of the same nature , it has , especially in relation to the treatment of the ...
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... occasion . While many animals creep on the ground , while all of them are prone in their posture or their aspect , the attitude of man is erect , by far the most graceful , with an air of dignity , and bespeaking superiority ; and by ...
... occasion . While many animals creep on the ground , while all of them are prone in their posture or their aspect , the attitude of man is erect , by far the most graceful , with an air of dignity , and bespeaking superiority ; and by ...
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... occasion requires . To mention only one circumstance ; it is well known to those who have experienced the beneficial effects of a simple blister , that its stimulous , like a charm , has frequently relieved the most excruciating pains ...
... occasion requires . To mention only one circumstance ; it is well known to those who have experienced the beneficial effects of a simple blister , that its stimulous , like a charm , has frequently relieved the most excruciating pains ...
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... occasion . It is furnished with lodg- ments wherein to post sentinels of various characters , and ap- point to various offices , to expedite their operations , whether employed in reconnoitering what passes without , or examining what ...
... occasion . It is furnished with lodg- ments wherein to post sentinels of various characters , and ap- point to various offices , to expedite their operations , whether employed in reconnoitering what passes without , or examining what ...
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... occasion to exercise the sense , but an absolute necessity to pro- tect the organ , these curtains spontaneously close , and never fail to lie shut . On the inside of these curtains or eye - lids , lie glands , which secrete a limpid ...
... occasion to exercise the sense , but an absolute necessity to pro- tect the organ , these curtains spontaneously close , and never fail to lie shut . On the inside of these curtains or eye - lids , lie glands , which secrete a limpid ...
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Page 121 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 121 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 128 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Page 49 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 97 - Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Page 120 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 125 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love; Where Friendship full exerts her softest power, Perfect esteem enlivened by desire Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence: for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.
Page 754 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; \ ' His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend.
Page 150 - How shocking must thy summons be, O Death, To him that is at ease in his possessions, Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! In that dread moment how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain...
Page 739 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.