Tropical Trials: A Hand-book for Women in the TropicsW.H. Allen & Company, 1883 - 461 sider |
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Tropical Trials: A Hand-Book for Women in the Tropics (Classic Reprint) Shelley Leigh Hunt Ingen forhåndsvisning tilgjengelig - 2017 |
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Side 461 - On Duty under a Tropical Sun. Being some Practical Suggestions for the Maintenance of Health and Bodily Comfort, and the Treatment of Simple Diseases ; with Remarks on Clothing and Equipment for the Guidance of Travellers in Tropical Countries. By Major S. LEIGH HUNT, Madras Army, and ALEXANDER S. KENNY, MRCSE, AKC, Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College, London, Author of " The Tissues and their Structure.
Side 319 - ... among their female children. " If you would go further, so as to make them understand in what their error consists ; what they ought to do, and what they ought to leave undone, you need only point out the difference between the plans usually pursued in the bringing up of the two sexes. The boys are sent at an early age to school, where a large portion of their time is...
Side 319 - Then, for the most part, these latter spend much more of their time in actual study than the former. The mind is over-educated at the expense of the physical structure, and, after all, with little advantage to the mind itself; for who can doubt that the principal object of this part of education ought to be, not so much to fill the mind with knowledge, as to train it to a right exercise of its intellectual and moral faculties; or that, other things being the...
Side 319 - Then, for the most part, the latter spend more of their time in actual study than the former. The mind is over-educated at the expense of the physical structure, and, after all, with little advantage to the mind itself; for who can doubt that the principal object of this part of education ought to be, not so much to fill the mind with knowledge, as to train it to a right exercise of its intellectual and moral faculties, or that, Other things being the same, this is more easily accomplished in those...
Side 311 - ... strong convulsive movements; she struggles •violently, like a person contending; rises into a sitting posture, and then throws herself back again; forcibly retracts and extends her legs, while her body is twisted from side to side ; and so powerful are these muscular contortions that it often is all that three or four strong persons can do to restrain a slight girl, and prevent her from injuring herself and others. The head is generally thrown backwards, and the throat projects; the face is...