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" An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure" is an old truth, and exceedingly well appliable to sheep husbandry. "
Medico-pharmaceutical Critic and Guide - Page 134
edited by - 1904
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Report, Volume 13, Parts 1837-1851

Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York - 1838 - 784 pages
...value, than the whole expense of the Institution from its origin. The adage in relation to health, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is emphatically true in morals and in systems for the prevention of crimes. We do not urge other considerations,...
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An elementary dictionary, or cyclopædiæ, for the use of maltsters, brewers ...

George Adolphus Wigney - 1838 - 386 pages
...proper quality, which can only be effected by a right heat. IBREMEDIABLE, not to be remedied or cured. "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," is an adage that should not only be indelibly, but so prominently impressed on the mind of every human...
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A Plea for Ragged Schools; Or, Prevention Better Than Cure

Thomas Guthrie - Charity-Schools - 1847 - 52 pages
...economy to pay for punishing rather than preventing ? — a truth embalmed in the good old saying, " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Is it right to do so much to reclaim the heathen abroad, and refuse the only means of reclaiming our heathen...
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The Lancashire beacon. Ed., C. Southwell

124 pages
...economy to pay for punishing rather than preventing?— a truth embalmed in the pood old saying, " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Is it right to do so much to reclaim the heathen abrond, and refuse the only means of reclaiming our heathen...
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An Inquiry Into the Extent and Causes of Juvenile Depravity

Thomas Beggs - Juvenile delinquency - 1849 - 222 pages
...political economy to pay for punishing rather than preventing?—a truth embalmed in the good old saying, " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Is it right to do so much to reclaim the heathen abroad, and refuse the only means of reclaiming our heathen...
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The Water-cure Journal, Volumes 11-12

1851 - 316 pages
...health, by the observance of which this disease mny, with almost inevitable certainty, be prevented? That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is nowhere in the wide world more trus than iu regard to this disease. How much easier and better it is,...
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Fall of Poland: Containing an Analytical and a Philosophical ..., Volume 2

Luther Calvin Saxton - Poland - 1851 - 638 pages
...founders of our government, the almost divine principle of frequently changing the officers of state. That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is an elementary principle in the science of government, as well as in physio. This republican principle,...
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Public Documents of Massachusetts, Volumes 10-17

Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1869 - 1084 pages
...May not this money, or a part of it, be so used as to aid and advance the great object in view ? " An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure " is a true maxim, especially in regard to the commission of crime. If a few dollars judiciously applied would...
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The Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns

George Edwin Waring - Sewage disposal - 1876 - 358 pages
...builds up a powerful treatise to convince of what they ought to know by instinct, that the adage, " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," is especially applicable to fires. — Philadelphia Bulletin. EDWARDS. The Butterflies of North America....
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Transactions of the ... Session of the American Institute of ..., Volume 30

American Institute of Homeopathy - Homeopathy - 1877 - 796 pages
...request each of you to take some interest in this work and manifest it by helping to advance it. " An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure " is an old trite adage, but nowhere is it more true than here ; aud I think the societies especially are...
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