The Medical Companion: Or Family Physician; Treating of the Diseases of the United States, with Their Symptoms, Causes, Cure and Means of Prevention: Common Cases in Surgery, as Fractures, Dislocations, &c. the Management and Diseases of Women and Children. A Dispensatory, for Preparing Family Medicine, and a Glossary Explaining Technical Terms. To which are Added, a Brief Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body, Shewing, on Rational Principles, the Cause and Cure of Diseases: an Essay on Hygiene, Or the Art of Preserving Health, Without the Aid of Medicine: an American Materia Medica, Pointing Out the Virtues and Doses of Our Medicinal Plants. Also, the Nurse's Guide |
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... side in the pending contest , and exert all their might either for the patient or the disease , till one or the other yields . The preceding is a faithful picture of empiricism - of its swaggering pretensions , of its danger , and its ...
... side in the pending contest , and exert all their might either for the patient or the disease , till one or the other yields . The preceding is a faithful picture of empiricism - of its swaggering pretensions , of its danger , and its ...
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... side , are so exactly proportioned to each other , that the equilibrium of the structure may not be disconcerted . These being the guards which defend , and the ministers which serve the whole body , are fitted for the most diversified ...
... side , are so exactly proportioned to each other , that the equilibrium of the structure may not be disconcerted . These being the guards which defend , and the ministers which serve the whole body , are fitted for the most diversified ...
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... side ; lest , being stretched to an improper length by the inflection , their dimensions should be lessened , and the circulating fluid retard- ed . They are not , like several of the considerable veins , laid so near the surface as to ...
... side ; lest , being stretched to an improper length by the inflection , their dimensions should be lessened , and the circulating fluid retard- ed . They are not , like several of the considerable veins , laid so near the surface as to ...
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... side with a strong fortification of bones . The wisdom and goodness of the Creator appear in the aston- ishing apparatus of muscles with which the eye is furnished , to produce all the necessary and convenient motions in the situation ...
... side with a strong fortification of bones . The wisdom and goodness of the Creator appear in the aston- ishing apparatus of muscles with which the eye is furnished , to produce all the necessary and convenient motions in the situation ...
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... side . The vessels which enter the lungs , are the trachea , or wind- pipe , by which we draw in the air ; the pulmonary artery , which comes from the right ventricle of the heart ; and the pulmonary vein , whose trunk opens into the ...
... side . The vessels which enter the lungs , are the trachea , or wind- pipe , by which we draw in the air ; the pulmonary artery , which comes from the right ventricle of the heart ; and the pulmonary vein , whose trunk opens into the ...
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Page 121 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude; And, in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 121 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 128 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love . Where friendship...
Page 49 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man...
Page 97 - Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Page 120 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Page 125 - Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love; Where Friendship full exerts her softest power, Perfect esteem enlivened by desire Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; Thought meeting thought, and will preventing will, With boundless confidence: for nought but love Can answer love, and render bliss secure.
Page 754 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; \ ' His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end, And all of God that bless mankind or mend.
Page 150 - How shocking must thy summons be, O Death, To him that is at ease in his possessions, Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come ! In that dread moment how the frantic soul Raves round the walls of her clay tenement, Runs to each avenue, and shrieks for help, But shrieks in vain...
Page 739 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.