Prophylaxis, an anniversary orationBaillière Bros.; London, H. Baillière, 1867 - 70 páginas |
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... Board of Health existed with plenary powers of abating nuisances , there is no good reason why the same scenes described by Defoe or Thucy- dides might not be re - enacted . The circumstances which developed the plague at Athens , or in ...
... Board of Health existed with plenary powers of abating nuisances , there is no good reason why the same scenes described by Defoe or Thucy- dides might not be re - enacted . The circumstances which developed the plague at Athens , or in ...
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... health . Instead of being a Medical Board of Health , this officer , with his twenty or more lay wardens , constituted a political Board of Health . The consequences are too well known to need more than a passing allusion . Politics ...
... health . Instead of being a Medical Board of Health , this officer , with his twenty or more lay wardens , constituted a political Board of Health . The consequences are too well known to need more than a passing allusion . Politics ...
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... Board of Health began its labors , innumerable obstacles were put in their way , not only by the lower classes , whose ignorance might excuse them , but by a far more intelligent one , in whom the greed of gain had overpowered all other ...
... Board of Health began its labors , innumerable obstacles were put in their way , not only by the lower classes , whose ignorance might excuse them , but by a far more intelligent one , in whom the greed of gain had overpowered all other ...
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... Board of Health , in its late campaign against the cholera , was mainly due to the fact that , marching in the van of the century , instead of behind it , they regarded prophylaxis as the true instrument with which to dissipate the ...
... Board of Health , in its late campaign against the cholera , was mainly due to the fact that , marching in the van of the century , instead of behind it , they regarded prophylaxis as the true instrument with which to dissipate the ...
Términos y frases comunes
Academy activity agencies astringents atmosphere blood Board of Health born cathartics causes of disease centuries change of air character childhood cholera chronic circulation cities civilization constitute cumulative diaphoretics diet Dioscorides disposition to blame diuretics domain duty epidemics epilepsy erethism everywhere exciting causes exist experience fact fever forces fula habit Hence HEPATIC human system hypochondriasis increase incubation influences of climate labors legislation manifested mankind ment Middle Ages mineral tonics Morbid Tendencies.-Predisposition muscular system nations nature necessities nervous system occupation organic functions organs of vegetative pallor paralyzed particularly past pathology permitted physical science physiological Pliny preventable primum mobile prophylaxis proved public health quarantine race recognised repress saline sanguine temperament sanitary scro seasons seed-thought sensibility septicemic society sphere struma sulphites temperament temperamental tendencies tend therapeutics tion treatment true typhoid typhoid fever typhus universe varieties wants wherever zymotic diseases zymotic germs
Pasajes populares
Página 3 - I HOLD every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página 9 - We have but faith: we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it conies from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow. Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Página 9 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Página 18 - October, there had not occurred a case of fever in any one of these houses ; yet, before they were under regulation, twenty cases of fever have been received into the London Fever Hospital from a single house, in the course of a few weeks. " ' In the whole of the improved dwellings the exemption from cholera has been as complete as from typhus. During the entire course of the epidemic in 1848 and 1849, no case of cholera occurred in any one of these dwellings, though the pestilence raged in all the...
Página 19 - ... the London Fever Hospital, from a single house, in the course of a few weeks. ' In the whole of the improved dwellings the exemption from cholera has been as complete as from typhus. During the entire course of the epidemic in 1848 and 1849, no case of cholera occurred in any one of these dwellings, though the pestilence raged in all the districts in which they are situated, and there were instances of two, and even four, deaths in single houses close to their very walls.
Página 18 - Of this number 1,308 had permanently registered, and were under efficient regulation. In the houses thus reported, the lodgers numbered at least 25,000. During the quarter ending the 23rd October, there had not occurred a case of fever in any one of these houses ; yet, before they were under regulation, twenty cases of fever have been received into the London Fever Hospital from a single house, in the course of a few weeks. " ' In the whole of the improved dwellings the exemption from cholera has...
Página 16 - Disease, like sin," he explained, "is permitted to exist; but conscience and revelation on the one hand, and reason and science on the other, are the kindred means with which God has armed us against them.
Página 24 - Ante adversam autem valetudinem, ut supra dixi, quaedam notae oriuntur, quarum omnium commune est, aliter se corpus habere atque consuevit ; neque in pejus tantum, sed etiam in melius. Ergo si plenior aliquis, et speciosior, et coloratior factus est, suspecta habere bona sua debet : quae, quia neque in eodem habitu subsistere, neque ultra progredi possunt, fere retro, quasi ruina quadam revolvuntur. Pejus...
Página 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. THE NEW YORK PRINTING COMPANY, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street, NEW YORK.
Página 21 - Non est de nihilo , quod publica fama susurrat , Et partem veri fabula semper habet.