The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 35Samuel Highley, 1865 - Medicine |
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Page 128 - ... which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.
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Page 283 - A System of Surgery, Theoretical and Practical, in Treatises by Various Authors.
Page 2 - Tliis double current of sanitary progress — that which proceeds from an official source and that which has sprung out of the convictions of thinking people, and has followed the customary channel by which such convictions find issue in action in this country, namely, voluntary association — is tolerably well represented by the books and pamphlets the titles of which we have placed at the head of this article. We purpose inquiring what this progress has been — what progress in knowledge has...
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Page 349 - In the same way, one perceives how fallen fruits, all sorts of edible plants, as well as pond, canal, or even river water, procured from the neighbourhood of human habitations, are liable to harbour the embryos capable of gaining an entrance to our bodies. It thus becomes evident also how one individual suffering from tapeworm may infect a whole neighbourhood, rendering the swine measly, these animals in their turn spreading the disease far and wide.
Page 27 - Moreover," we quote from the report, "as regards the examined families of the agricultural population, it appeared that more than a fifth were with less than the estimated sufficiency of carbonaceous food, that more than one-third were with less than the estimated sufficiency of nitrogenous food, and that in three counties (Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Somersetshire) insufficiency of nitrogenous food was the average local diet.