The True Science of Living: The New Gospel of Health ; Practical and Physiological ; Story of an Evolution of Natural Law in the Cure of Disease for Physicians and Laymen ; how the Sick Get Well ; how the Well Get Sick ; Alcoholics Freshly Considered |
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... begin- ing with " Restful sleep is not a hunger - causing process , and going on to suggest that the breakfast they eat cannot furnish strength for them to do their morning work upon , as in no case does food give strength until it is ...
... begin- ing with " Restful sleep is not a hunger - causing process , and going on to suggest that the breakfast they eat cannot furnish strength for them to do their morning work upon , as in no case does food give strength until it is ...
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... begin my story with a slight thread of Autobio- graphy . I am a son of New England from many gen- erations , but was born in the country among the hills of Western Pennsylvania where the freshest air is always available . I grew up in ...
... begin my story with a slight thread of Autobio- graphy . I am a son of New England from many gen- erations , but was born in the country among the hills of Western Pennsylvania where the freshest air is always available . I grew up in ...
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... begin , I can assure you that my steps through the aisles of my ward on that first day were very deficient in the tone and firmness that confidence begets . But I had a right to believe that most of my sick would get well , and from my ...
... begin , I can assure you that my steps through the aisles of my ward on that first day were very deficient in the tone and firmness that confidence begets . But I had a right to believe that most of my sick would get well , and from my ...
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... begin to look puzzled , for you have always believed that the president's life was main- tained during those long weeks through the absorp- tion of food by this most accommodating of excretory membranes , of food so marvelously ...
... begin to look puzzled , for you have always believed that the president's life was main- tained during those long weeks through the absorp- tion of food by this most accommodating of excretory membranes , of food so marvelously ...
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... begin to wonder : " What you , you call in question any method of these great surgeons ! " Great they were in ability , in skill , in experience ; great in all that ennobles and elevates human character , and they were the greatest of ...
... begin to wonder : " What you , you call in question any method of these great surgeons ! " Great they were in ability , in skill , in experience ; great in all that ennobles and elevates human character , and they were the greatest of ...
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Page 6 - He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
Page 320 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Page 3 - Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.
Page 293 - Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound, Mine ears attend the cry; Ye living men come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie.
Page 320 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Page 112 - Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging : and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
Page 142 - Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning! 17 Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!
Page 148 - ... forehead," said the naked Indian, when his Caucasian hunting companion wondered that he did not shiver in a snow-storm ; and the faster's day is all morning. If you cannot adopt the one-meal plan at once at least avoid breakfast. Here is how Dr. Dewey describes his first forenoon without breakfast : " I had a forenoon of such lofty mental cheer, such energy of soul and body, such a sense of physical ease as I had not known since a young man in my later teens. When the dinner-hour came there was...
Page 287 - If your Majesty will give me leave, I will tell you what I would do, if I were the Spanish general opposed to the invading force, and I think you will be convinced that there is but little chance of military success, and none of any political result.
Page 320 - Throw out opium, which the Creator himself seems to prescribe, for we often see the scarlet poppy growing in the cornfields, as if it were foreseen that wherever there is hunger to be fed there must also be pain to be soothed; throw out a few specifics which our art did not discover, and...