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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... weakness Senna , American Senses , inlets of pleasure Setons and issues Sexual weakness Shippen , Dr. Wm . father the Penn . university Ship fever - Shaw , professor , his death Shiverings , in childbed Sight , one of the senses ...
... weakness Senna , American Senses , inlets of pleasure Setons and issues Sexual weakness Shippen , Dr. Wm . father the Penn . university Ship fever - Shaw , professor , his death Shiverings , in childbed Sight , one of the senses ...
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... Weakness of the stomach Weaning · 613 falling down of inversion of cancer of - 575 · · Weems , Dr. his prescription - his death · polypus in the inflammation of 562 - 580 - 578 - 567 hemorrhage from - 553 Wood betony , good in rheu ...
... Weakness of the stomach Weaning · 613 falling down of inversion of cancer of - 575 · · Weems , Dr. his prescription - his death · polypus in the inflammation of 562 - 580 - 578 - 567 hemorrhage from - 553 Wood betony , good in rheu ...
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... weak and relaxed habits , particularly those of the studious and sedentary .. It ought however to be remembered , that , like every other remedy , it belongs but to one set of diseases . In affections of the viscera , obstructions and ...
... weak and relaxed habits , particularly those of the studious and sedentary .. It ought however to be remembered , that , like every other remedy , it belongs but to one set of diseases . In affections of the viscera , obstructions and ...
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... texture is considerably slighter . In many places they have valves , because the slow motion of the blood in the veins , and their weaker contractile power , un- assisted by a force adequate to that of the heart 54 OF THE STRUCTURE OF.
... texture is considerably slighter . In many places they have valves , because the slow motion of the blood in the veins , and their weaker contractile power , un- assisted by a force adequate to that of the heart 54 OF THE STRUCTURE OF.
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... weak and languid circulation , also diminish the heat of the body . When a ligature is put around an artery , so as to prevent the blood from being carried to any particular limb , that limb be- comes colder than it was , and does not ...
... weak and languid circulation , also diminish the heat of the body . When a ligature is put around an artery , so as to prevent the blood from being carried to any particular limb , that limb be- comes colder than it was , and does not ...
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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...
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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...
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