Elements of health, and principles of female hygiene

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Lindsay and Blakiston, 1852 - 436 páginas
 

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Página 288 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
Página 232 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Página 219 - I speak not of kings, grandees, or the like show-figures ; but few soldiers, judges, men of letters, can have had such pains taken with them. The very balletgirls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then suddenly fixing themselves motionless, each upon her left or right great toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees.
Página 45 - A carpenter fell into a quarrel with a soldier billeted in his house, and was set upon by the latter with his drawn sword. The wife of the carpenter at first trembled from fear and terror, and then suddenly threw herself furiously between the combatants, wrested the sword from the soldier's hand, broke it in pieces, and threw it away. During the tumult some neighbors came in and separated the men.
Página 398 - lean and slippered pantaloons ;" and their " shrunk shanks" declare the pervading atrophy. Others, women more often than men, as old and as ill-nourished as these, yet make a far different appearance. With these the first sign of old age is that they grow fat ; and this abides with them till, it may be, in a last illness sharper than old age, they are robbed even of their fat. These, too, when old age sets in, become pursy, short-winded, pot-bellied, pale and flabby ; their skin hangs, not in wrinkles,...
Página 35 - Of these 261 were females: 282 males. The total number of individuals poisoned by opium, or its preparations, was 186. The deaths of very young children (most of them at the breast), from opium, or its preparations, administered by mothers and nurses, in ignorance of the powerful effects of those substances on infants, were 52. The deaths of young children from opium or laudanum administered in mistake for other medicine were 20. In 11 of these cases, the names of the medicines are given, in the...
Página 46 - While in this state of strong excitement, the mother took up her child from the cradle, where it lay playing, and in the most perfect health, never having had a moment's illness ; she gave it the breast, and in so doing sealed its fate. In a few minutes the infant left off sucking, became restless, panted, and sank dead upon its mother's bosom.
Página 104 - Too little attention has, I think, hitherto been given to the broad fact that a child's mental existence is constituted almost entirely of the workings of the conceptive faculty. The human mind, in its first period, may be said to be, all IDEALITY...
Página 45 - During the tumult, some neighbors came in and separated the men. While in this state of strong excitement, the mother took up her child from the cradle, where it lay playing, and in the most perfect health, never having had a moment's illness ; she gave it the breast, and in so doing sealed its fate. In a few minutes the...
Página 428 - MENDENHALL'S MEDICAL STUDENTS' VADE-MECUM. Being a Compendium of Anatomy, Surgery, the Practice of Medicine, &c., &c. The Third edition, enlarged, with numerous illustrations. Royal 12mo , WALTON'S OPERATIVE OPHTHALMIC SURGERY.

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