The New Gospel of Health: An Effort to Teach People the Priniples of Vital Magnetism: Or, How to Replenish the Springs of Life Without Drugs Or Stimulants |
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Page 5 - The truth is in the air, and the most impressionable brain will announce it first, but all will announce it a few minutes later. So women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.
Page 483 - Tenoughan, the captain-general of the clans of Indians of those parts. I found him ill of a fever, his head and limbs much affected with pain, and at the same time his wife preparing a bagnio for him. The bagnio resembled a large oven, into which he crept, by...
Page 483 - In less than half an hour, he was in so great a sweat, that when he came out he was as wet as if he had come out of a river, and the reek or steam of his body so thick, that it was hard to discern anybody's face that stood near him.
Page 483 - ... the river, which was about twenty paces, and ducked himself twice or thrice therein, and so returned (passing only through his bagnio, to mitigate the immediate stroke of the cold) to his own house, perhaps twenty paces...
Page 483 - The bagnio resembled a large oven, into which he crept by a door on the one side, while she put several red hot stones in at a small door on the other side thereof, and then fastened the doors as closely from the air as she could. Now while he was sweating in this bagnio, his wife (for they disdain no service) was, with an axe, cutting her husband a passage into the river, (being the winter of...
Page 483 - ... length near a long (but gentle) fire, in the middle of his wigwam, or house, turning himself several times, till he was dry, and then he rose and fell to getting us our dinner, seeming to be as easy, and well in health, as at any other time.
Page 483 - Indians of those parts. I found him ill of a fever, his head and limbs much affected with pain, and at the same time his wife preparing a bagnio for him. The bagnio resembled a large oven, into which he crept by a door on the one side, while she put several...
Page 24 - Hie same amount of the opposite magnetism. It is this double manifestation of force which constitutes the polarity of the magnet. The fact of the freely suspended magnet taking up a fixed position, has led to the theory, that the earth itself is a huge magnet, having its north and south magnetic poles in the neighbourhood of the poles of the axis of rotation, and that the magnetic needle or suspended magnet turns to them as it docs to those of a neighbouring magnet.
Page 120 - It tempers the spirits, and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude, and relieves fatigue, awakens thought, and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties...
Page 456 - ... and conservative influence. It is by the organization of this fluid that the lips of recent wounds are glued together, and that parts recently severed from the body may be sometimes replaced and still live. The success of the Talicotian operation, by which a new nose is engrafted in the position of that which had been lost — of the operation of injecting a stimulating fluid into cystic tumors, etc., with the view of setting up adhesive inflammation — and of various other surgical operations,...
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| Title | The New Gospel of Health: An Effort to Teach People the Priniples of Vital Magnetism: Or, How to Replenish the Springs of Life Without Drugs Or Stimulants |
| Author | Andrew Stone |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | Lung and Hygienic Institute, 1878 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 17, 2007 |
| Length | 519 pages |
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