Our Bodies and how We Live: An Elementary Text-book of Physiology and Hygiene for Use in Schools, with Special Reference to the Effects of Alcoholic Drinks, Tobacco and Other Narcotics on the Bodily Life |
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Page 274 - Heavy clothing, blankets, bedding and other articles which cannot be treated with zinc solution, should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as directed below. Close the rooms as tightly as possible, place the sulphur in iron pans, supported upon bricks placed in wash-tubs containing a little water ; set it on...
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Page 387 - Al'i-ment (L. alo, to nourish). That which affords nourishment ; food. Al-i-ment'a-ry Ca-nal (from aliment). A long tube in which the food is digested, or prepared for reception into the blood.
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Page 188 - ... and that these are recuperated during sleep. If the recuperation does not equal the expenditure, the brain withers — this is insanity. Thus it is that, in early English history, persons who were condemned to death by being prevented from sleeping, always died raving maniacs ; thus it is also that those who are starved to death become insane — the brain is not nourished and they cannot sleep.
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