Healthy life and healthy dwellings, a guide to hygiene1880 |
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Page 59 - I say unto you, the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children even unto the third and fourth generation.
Page 1 - I, and a black cloud hanging on each end of it. As I looked more attentively, I saw several of the passengers dropping through the bridge, into the great tide that flowed underneath it; and upon...
Page 257 - During the latter part of the fifteenth century and the first half of the sixteenth, this pestilence reappeared no less than five times, its last visitation having occurred in 1551.
Page 160 - The vigorous and strong may bathe early in the morning on an empty stomach. The young, and those who are weak, had better bathe two or three hours after a meal — the best time for such is from two to three hoars after breakfast.
Page ii - Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost.
Page 160 - Avoid bathing within two hours after a meaL Avoid bathing when exhausted by fatigue, or from any other cause. Avoid bathing when the body is cooling after perspiration.
Page 192 - ... of life which stand a man in such good stead when he goes forth into the world, and without which, indeed, his success is always maimed and partial. Now: if the promoters of higher education for women will compel girls to any training analogous to our public school games; if, for instance, they will insist on that most natural and wholesome of all exercises, dancing, in order to develop the lower half of the body; on singing, to expand the lungs and regulate the breath; and on some...
Page 1 - I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide. The bridge thou seest, said he, is human life ; consider it attentively. Upon a more leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of three score and ten entire arches, with several broken arches, which added to those that were entire, made up the number about an hundred.
Page 114 - ... it is to be regretted that it is not more generally used in the nursery and the homes of the poorer classes than it is.
Page ii - The art of preserving health; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote.