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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Page 15
... marked , and these friends are on the high - road to health again . I could fill pages of interesting details coming under my own observation and resulting from the adoption of the rule , on the strength of my simple expositions , which ...
... marked , and these friends are on the high - road to health again . I could fill pages of interesting details coming under my own observation and resulting from the adoption of the rule , on the strength of my simple expositions , which ...
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... marked success ? Scarcely . At times I thought I was certain to become such , and then would come a paralyzing experience . Why , I was called upon to take charge of four old physical wrecks at about the same time in close prox- imity ...
... marked success ? Scarcely . At times I thought I was certain to become such , and then would come a paralyzing experience . Why , I was called upon to take charge of four old physical wrecks at about the same time in close prox- imity ...
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... marked , with suffi- cient frequency to keep me in a measure from the evil of over - confidence . But these are met by all phy- sicians as well . What did I gain by eleven years ' attendance upon the acutely sick , whereof no case was ...
... marked , with suffi- cient frequency to keep me in a measure from the evil of over - confidence . But these are met by all phy- sicians as well . What did I gain by eleven years ' attendance upon the acutely sick , whereof no case was ...
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... marked at the time when food and doses could be borne and I was moved to let Nature continue to have her own way . And , from thence on , I only watched , without enforced feeding , and with only unmedicated doses , until the thirty ...
... marked at the time when food and doses could be borne and I was moved to let Nature continue to have her own way . And , from thence on , I only watched , without enforced feeding , and with only unmedicated doses , until the thirty ...
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... marked by the time you get hungry . And mark you , when real hunger comes , when you let Nature rest until she can so speak that you can hear every word she says , then give her the exact bill of fare she calls for , and no mistake will ...
... marked by the time you get hungry . And mark you , when real hunger comes , when you let Nature rest until she can so speak that you can hear every word she says , then give her the exact bill of fare she calls for , and no mistake will ...
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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...