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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... death is not inevitable . And by its habitual use eat- ing becomes elevated to a luxury of life , and not only enables you to habitually eat more food on the average than before , but it has the supreme merit of permitting Nature to ...
... death is not inevitable . And by its habitual use eat- ing becomes elevated to a luxury of life , and not only enables you to habitually eat more food on the average than before , but it has the supreme merit of permitting Nature to ...
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... death inevi- table from the beginning . But there was one fact re- vealed in every postmortem of tremendous significance that failed to make any impression on my mind other than to remember it . The fact that no matter how emaciated the ...
... death inevi- table from the beginning . But there was one fact re- vealed in every postmortem of tremendous significance that failed to make any impression on my mind other than to remember it . The fact that no matter how emaciated the ...
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... death seemed inevitable . To determine what should be done , even in such a hopeless case , his surgeon had him taken to the operating - room and we were all summoned for a consultation . On examination under anææsthetics the wound was ...
... death seemed inevitable . To determine what should be done , even in such a hopeless case , his surgeon had him taken to the operating - room and we were all summoned for a consultation . On examination under anææsthetics the wound was ...
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... death in its numerous forms , such as enabled me always to maintain my intellectual poise at a fair balance in the homes of the sick , no matter how severe the case . A cool head in time of trial when others are unnerved is of vital ...
... death in its numerous forms , such as enabled me always to maintain my intellectual poise at a fair balance in the homes of the sick , no matter how severe the case . A cool head in time of trial when others are unnerved is of vital ...
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... death . And you are not insensible to your need of philosophy , when superstitious faith in your powers holds you responsible where death is inevi- table . This contact with emotional tension is a disabling experience , that confronts ...
... death . And you are not insensible to your need of philosophy , when superstitious faith in your powers holds you responsible where death is inevi- table . This contact with emotional tension is a disabling experience , that confronts ...
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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...