...powers, not forgetting to keep up the inward heat, by giving occasionally, No. 2. 9. Keep always in mind, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure; and give medicine on the first appearance of disorder, before it becomes seated; for it may be then easily...

...value, than the whole expense of the Institution from its origin. The adage in relation to health, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is emphatically true in morals and in systems for the prevention of crimes. We do not urge other considerations,...

...requiring medical attention in which the trite adage is more truly verified than in this accident — an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure: — and this position has been, at all times, justly appreciated by those alive to the result; and many efforts...

...profess to have a better knowledge than that which belongs to the world. V\Te forgot that old proverb, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, — that that is the truest wisdom which advises the overcoming of the beginnings of evil. It may cost...

...principles thus taught by the divine art. Natural and moral philosophy both agree in the doctrine, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. And if we would preserve the morals of youth, they must be brought habitually in contact with moral principles,...

...founders of our government, the almost divine principle of frequently changing the officers of state. That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is an elementary principle in the science of government, as well as in physio. This republican principle,...

...health, by the observance of which this disease mny, with almost inevitable certainty, be prevented? That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is nowhere in the wide world more trus than iu regard to this disease. How much easier and better it...

...Society promises to be. Our State is yet young;—we have no overgrown citiea. It is. an old adage that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Now, therefore, is the time to engraft on the chartersof our towns and cities, provisions which shall...

...peruse them, and have been afflicted with gout, that there is a great deal of truth in the trite maxim that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Gout is produced by a certain acidity of the stomach, frequently caused by over-indulgence of some...

...sin, even on my own principles — a sin which I fear will go far to the ruin of many souls. I know that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," — that it is easier to keep ten men from becoming drunkards than to reform one. A society is formed...