Medical Counselor and Michigan Journal of Homeopathy, Volumes 3-4

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1880 - Homeopathy
 

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Page 100 - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the, knell of my departed hours : Where are they?
Page 169 - MD, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore.
Page 12 - To promote an active public interest in the New York State Institutions of Public Charities, with a view to the physical, mental, and moral improvement of their pauper inmates.
Page 119 - Conceive a poor miserable wretch, who for many years has been attempting to beat off pain by a constant recurrence to the vice that reproduces it. Conceive a spirit in hell, employed in tracing out for others the road to that heaven, from which his crimes exclude him ! In short, conceive whatever is most wretched, helpless, and hopeless, and you will form as tolerable a notion of my state, as it is possible for a good man to have. I used to think the text in St. James that ' he who offended in one...
Page 117 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 40 - ... the angle of reflection is always equal to the angle of incidence, the image for any point can be seen only in the reflected ray prolonged.
Page 205 - ... with charcoal powder. He usually adds half a teaspoonful of the powder to one bottle of the milk. The infants take the milk readily, and in a few days the greenish stools of the little patients change to a dark yellow, while their consistence becomes increased. In addition to the admixture of powdered charcoal, the milk is diluted by one-half or one-third of its bulk of sugared water. He has frequently seen intractable summer complaints yield in a few days to this treatment.
Page 170 - If this be the case, it follows, as an important practical corollary, that there is no theoretical ground for assuming that preventing the bacteria of a diphtheritic patch from making their way through the underlying mucous membrane will, per se. prevent general diphtheritic infection of the system.
Page 144 - The ears should be examined very carefully before a certificate of fitness for duty is given. The examination can and should only be undertaken by a physician who has made a special study of otology, or at least understands .how to examine the ear and to test its functions accurately.
Page 117 - State board of health, and three other persons to be designated and appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be a commissioner of health of the board of health of the city of New York, and the others shall be members or commissioners of health...

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