On the decline of life in health and diseaseJ. Churchill, 1853 - 300 pages |
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Page xiii
... actions in health can venture to guide and to restore them when their due course has been deranged by some baneful influence : cupidity and effrontery are the parents of quackery ; but it is ig- norance or timidity that leads its dupes ...
... actions in health can venture to guide and to restore them when their due course has been deranged by some baneful influence : cupidity and effrontery are the parents of quackery ; but it is ig- norance or timidity that leads its dupes ...
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... action except receiving and digesting font I say receiving food , for the child is for a long time unable to make any effort to procure it . Its proper nutriment , the mother's milk or any substitute for it , must be placed in its mouth ...
... action except receiving and digesting font I say receiving food , for the child is for a long time unable to make any effort to procure it . Its proper nutriment , the mother's milk or any substitute for it , must be placed in its mouth ...
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... action ; the respiration is much more rapid than in after - life , being in relative proportion to the greater frequency of the heart's action . Less change is effected in the blood than in mature life , less carbonic acid is given off ...
... action ; the respiration is much more rapid than in after - life , being in relative proportion to the greater frequency of the heart's action . Less change is effected in the blood than in mature life , less carbonic acid is given off ...
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... actions are premature to the designs of nature , and if often repeated would assuredly retard or prevent perfect development , and induce an early accession of decay . I regard , then , the mature man or woman , not as one in whom the ...
... actions are premature to the designs of nature , and if often repeated would assuredly retard or prevent perfect development , and induce an early accession of decay . I regard , then , the mature man or woman , not as one in whom the ...
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... action by the controlling power of vitality . The one great peculiarity of living bodies is , that although , even as inanimate bodies do , they grow by an aggregation of similar particles to each other , yet these particles are not ...
... action by the controlling power of vitality . The one great peculiarity of living bodies is , that although , even as inanimate bodies do , they grow by an aggregation of similar particles to each other , yet these particles are not ...
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Page 29 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 125 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 299 - All the publications of Mr. Churchill are prepared with so much taste and neatness, that it is superfluous to speak of them in terms of commendation.