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... ment only , so that nutriment of every other nature necessarily becomes indigestible . Thus Spal- lanzani , an Italian philosopher , gradually brought the stomach of a sheep to accommodate itself to animal food , and that of a raven to ...
... ment only , so that nutriment of every other nature necessarily becomes indigestible . Thus Spal- lanzani , an Italian philosopher , gradually brought the stomach of a sheep to accommodate itself to animal food , and that of a raven to ...
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... ment affords to it ; hence it is of great importance that a nurse be strong , active , and cheerful . When the mother cannot afford the means to procure the assist- ance of a hired nurse , and is too weak to do justice to her infant in ...
... ment affords to it ; hence it is of great importance that a nurse be strong , active , and cheerful . When the mother cannot afford the means to procure the assist- ance of a hired nurse , and is too weak to do justice to her infant in ...
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... ment of the nurse , not to permit him to walk far on a stretch ; or if the parents be in that rank of life which obliges them to be the personal attendants of their child- ren , they should never permit a child under three years of age ...
... ment of the nurse , not to permit him to walk far on a stretch ; or if the parents be in that rank of life which obliges them to be the personal attendants of their child- ren , they should never permit a child under three years of age ...
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... ment well adapted to the part to be re- lieved . Here the patient , if unable to suit himself with those on hand , may have one made agreeably to the exact measurement of his body . French Elastic Catheters . Just received , from France ...
... ment well adapted to the part to be re- lieved . Here the patient , if unable to suit himself with those on hand , may have one made agreeably to the exact measurement of his body . French Elastic Catheters . Just received , from France ...
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... ment , for daring to express , in a public meeting of their body , their disapprobation of the proposed law for gagging the press ; a pro- ceeding which even Cuvier , who has long been a thick and thin friend of the court , has ...
... ment , for daring to express , in a public meeting of their body , their disapprobation of the proposed law for gagging the press ; a pro- ceeding which even Cuvier , who has long been a thick and thin friend of the court , has ...
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Page 347 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 455 - And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.
Page 455 - ... all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side: In the cold moist earth we laid her, when the...
Page 455 - THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead ; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day.
Page 455 - And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen.
Page 454 - One pound of good bread is equal to two pounds and a half, or three pounds, of the best potatoes ; and seventy-five pounds of bread, and thirty pounds of meat, arc equal to three hundred pounds of potatoes.
Page 11 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Page 455 - The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood? Alas! they all are in their graves, the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours.
Page 455 - The wind-flower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sun-flower by the brook...
Page 197 - ... keepers. In no case is deception on the patient employed, or allowed ; on the contrary, the greatest frankness, as well as kindness, forms a part of the moral treatment. His case is explained to him, and he is made to understand, as far as possible, the reasons why the treatment to which he is subjected has become necessary. " By this course of intellectual management, it has been found, as a matter of experience at our Institution, that patients — who had always been raving when confined without...