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Side 259 - Better is little with the fear of the Lord Than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Side xx - HYGIENE is the art of preserving health ; that is, of obtaining the most perfect action of body and mind during as long a period as is consistent with the laws of life. In other words, it aims at rendering growth more perfect, decay less rapid, life more vigorous, death more remote.
Side 82 - ... sufficient for the broad conclusions drawn from them; conclusions arising from exceedingly limited observation, and which did not command the assent of all the committee. We regret these opinions because they tend to open a controversy just closed, and to compel us to travel a second time over ground already painfully trodden, and this with the prospect of no other or better issue than that already reached. To be pushed back into the water, when we have just reached shore, is trying...
Side 103 - Government to invite foreign nations to cooperate with it in the establishment of uniform and effective international quarantine regulations. 6. That whatever may be the practical value of quarantine, there is no doubt of the importance and value of internal sanitary measures in the prevention or modification of epidemic yellow fever, and that this Association strongly urges upon State and municipal authorities the great amount of responsibility which rests upon them on this account at times when...
Side 264 - ... who spake of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ; who spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Side 266 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Side 101 - ... conditions of yellow fever in the United States, with the help of the library of the Surgeon-General at Washington, and a personal experience of over two thousand cases, concludes, that nothing is so important in the prevention of yellow fever as proper watersupply and sewerage.
Side 80 - ... that, to keep her class standing, the girl must devote more energy, and, consequently, work harder, to accomplish her task, making drafts upon her system, which, by the very nature of the case, is already taxed to meet the physiological demands made upon it. It is also well known that overwork, in whatever way induced, at the times indicated, will porduce deterioration of the system, which generally manifests itself by bloodlessness, followed by a train of evils which it is not necessary here...
Side 80 - ... promptitude with which they responded to questions. We were, however, deeply impressed with the appearance of ill-health which most of them presented. It would not seem probable that, by mere coincidence, so many young women should be congregated together offering this peculiarity. There are a few notable exceptions, but as a whole, this appearance is unmistakable, and has given rise to considerable comment among the members of the board.
Side 239 - ... pathology, that all parts of the body, the highest and the lowest, have a sympathy with one another more intelligent than conscious intelligence can yet, or perhaps ever will, conceive ; that there is not an organic motion, visible, or invisible, sensible or insensible, ministrant to the noblest or to the most humble purposes, which does not work its appointed effect in the complex recesses of the mind, and that the mind, as the crowning achievement of organisation, and the consummation and outcome...

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