The American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science: Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian HomesSeeking to elevate the status of domestic work, Beecher and co-author Harriet Beecher Stowe redefine it as labor for which women must be educated. They also offer instruction in the specifics of maintaining a household. |
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... lungs and their capillaries and air - cells - How people in a confined room will use of the oxygen of its air and overload it with refuse carbonic acid - Starvation of the living body deprived of oxygen - The skin and its twenty - eight ...
... lungs and their capillaries and air - cells - How people in a confined room will use of the oxygen of its air and overload it with refuse carbonic acid - Starvation of the living body deprived of oxygen - The skin and its twenty - eight ...
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... lungs , stomach , throat , nose - Accidents from lightning - Stupefaction , from coal - gas or fout air - Fire - Fainting - Coolness and presence of mind . - Pages 348–352 . XXVIII . SEWING , CUTTING , AND MENDING . Different CONTENTS . ix.
... lungs , stomach , throat , nose - Accidents from lightning - Stupefaction , from coal - gas or fout air - Fire - Fainting - Coolness and presence of mind . - Pages 348–352 . XXVIII . SEWING , CUTTING , AND MENDING . Different CONTENTS . ix.
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... lungs feed the body with oxygen , as really as the stomach sup- plies the other food required . Fig . 22 . Fig . 23 . The lungs occupy the upper portion of the body from the collar - bone to the lower ribs , and between their two lobes ...
... lungs feed the body with oxygen , as really as the stomach sup- plies the other food required . Fig . 22 . Fig . 23 . The lungs occupy the upper portion of the body from the collar - bone to the lower ribs , and between their two lobes ...
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... lungs , under a miscroscope , it is ascertained that there are no less than eighteen mil- lion of these wonderful little purifiers and feeders of the body . By their ceaseless ministries , every grown person receives , each day , thirty ...
... lungs , under a miscroscope , it is ascertained that there are no less than eighteen mil- lion of these wonderful little purifiers and feeders of the body . By their ceaseless ministries , every grown person receives , each day , thirty ...
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... LUNGS V RECEIVES FROM BODY SENDSTO BODY SENDS TO LUNGS Fig . 27 . the lungs , and the impure blood from the body , through the valves marked V , V , into the lower part . When the lower portion contracts , it closes the valves and ...
... LUNGS V RECEIVES FROM BODY SENDSTO BODY SENDS TO LUNGS Fig . 27 . the lungs , and the impure blood from the body , through the valves marked V , V , into the lower part . When the lower portion contracts , it closes the valves and ...
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