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Page 215 - How to Nurse Sick Children; containing Directions which may be found of service to all who have charge of the Young. By CHARLES WEST, MD Second Edition. Fcp. 8vo.
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Page 393 - Resolution of the magistrates deputed from the several counties in England and Wales, assembled at the St. Alban's Tavern, by the desire of the Society for Giving Effect to His Majesty's Proclamation against Vice and Immorality on the 5th, llth, 14th, and 17th May, 1790. 8°. London. Restano. I rei d
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Page 379 - Introductory report to the code of prison discipline, explanatory of the principles on which the code is founded, being part of the system of penal law prepared for the State of Louisiana.
Page 113 - The close relation of alcoholism to insanity is shown by the statement of a specialist (Krafft-Ebing) that all forms of insanity, from melancholia to imbecility, are found in alcoholism. It is artificial; it begins with a slight maniacal excitation; thoughts flow lucidly; the quiet become loquacious, the modest bold; there is need of muscular action; the emotions are manifest in laughing, singing, and dancing.
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Page 42 - ... could all be eye-witnesses to a few of our most brutal railroad accidents, the consciousness gained might be developed into conscientiousness in the division of their sympathies. But this feeling, however paradoxical, is a sincere, though sometimes morbid, expression of unselfish humanitarianism; for the underlying impulses are of the most ethical order, and overcultivation is a safer error than undercultivation. The moral climax of this feeling was reached when the Founder of Christianity was...
Page 42 - But the criminal cannot be studied without being seen and examined. For the love of science and humanity, we permit the examination of the sick, of pregnant women by young men, manipulation in surgical clinics of fractured members; the visiting, examination and individual study of the insane, although these are sometimes injurious to the insane. But the criminal may not receive visits, may not submit to an anthropometrical examination.
Page 149 - Dickens died from effusion of blood upon the brain ; he was a sickly child, suffering from violent spasms ; when a young man, he had a slight nervousness which increased with age, and finally was attacked with incipient paralysis.