The exhibition record, a descriptive account of the principal exhibits, compiled from special suppl. issued with the 'Sanitary record'.

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Side 35 - Woe unto you, lawyers ! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge : ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Side 385 - Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection...
Side 340 - I apprehend it to be the rule of law that, if persons take upon themselves to make assertions, as to which they are ignorant whether they are true or untrue, they must, in a civil point of view, be held as responsible as if they had asserted that which they knew to be untrue.
Side 368 - For example, we find that a special meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association was held at Liverpool on the 21st of September, for the purpose of once more condemning homoeopathy and homoeopaths to perpetual ostracism.
Side 168 - ... their floors are commonly of clay, strewed with rushes, under which lie unmolested a collection of beer, grease, fragments, bones, spittle, excrements of dogs and cats, and of every thing that is nauseous.
Side 269 - When man shall be brought to acknowledge (as truth must finally constrain him to acknowledge) that it is by his own hand, through the neglect of a few obvious rules, that the seeds of disease are most lavishly sown within his frame, and diffused over communities; when he shall have required of medical science to occupy itself rather with the prevention of maladies than with their cure ; when...
Side 279 - The rate of infant mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths under one year...
Side 385 - ... without having such house, room or part of a house and all articles therein liable to retain infection, disinfected to the satisfaction of a...
Side 262 - ... by contagion or infection, come next before us for removal. We call these perils contagious diseases ; we call them plagues or pestilences ; and in respect to them we have learned much that is accurate, and, I fear, much that is inaccurate. What is accurate is, however, the most important. We know the number of these diseases ; we know that their number is limited, that it is confined to thirty at the most, and practically to little over half thirty. We know that the members of this class of...
Side 130 - ... the town ; whence again, after having supplied the wants of the inhabitants, it runs off, enriched with fertilizing matter, which it carries away before allowing it time to ferment. This manure, driven along irrigation pipes, is deposited in the soil, leaving the water to pass into drainage pipes, and flow on to the rivers. The rivers conduct it to the ocean...

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