British and Foreign Medical Review: Or Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and Surgery, Volume 17

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1844 - Medicine

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Page 187 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 1 - TREATISE ON FOOD AND DIET: With Observations on the Dietetical Regimen suited for Disordered States of the Digestive Organs ; and an Account of the Dietaries of some of the principal Metropolitan and other Establishments for Paupers, Lunatics, Criminals, Children, the Sick, &c. By JON. PEREIRA, MDFRS & LS Author of
Page 240 - I can confidently recommend this work, from my own personal experience, to all who are desirous of obtaining instruction in analysis, for its simplicity and usefulness, and the facility with which it may be apprehended.
Page 526 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 102 - Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda ; vel quod Quaerit, et inventis miser abstinet, ac timet uti ; Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.
Page 222 - ... plants which contain the least amount of the phosphates, and therefore require the smallest quantity for their development. These roots contain 80° to 92° per cent, of water. Their great bulk makes the amount of produce fallacious, as respects their adaptation to the food of animals, inasmuch as their contents of the ingredients of the blood...
Page 120 - ... that each of you will carry from this place. Therefore it is that I feel myself to be engaged in a very serious undertaking. Doctrines and maxims, good or bad, flow abroad from a public teacher as from a fountain, and his faulty lessons may become the indirect source of incalculable mischief and suffering to hundreds who have never even heard his name.
Page 22 - Liquors, such as ale, porter, and beer, commonly known as fermented decoctions of malt and hops, deserve a slight notice. Beer differs from wine in containing less spirit and more nutritive matter; therefore, when used in moderation, it may be considered wholesome, proving a refreshing drink, and an agreeable and valuable stimulus and support to those who have to undergo much bodily fatigue.
Page 120 - The comforts or the misery of many families may probably hang upon the notions that each of you will carry from this place. Therefore it is that I feel myself to be engaged in a very serious undertaking. Doctrines and maxims, good or bad, flow abroad from a public teacher as from a fountain, and his lessons may become the indirect source of incalculable mischief and suffering to hundreds who have never even heard his name.
Page 120 - The subjects with which we have to deal are not matters of mere speculative curiosity or intellectual amusement, — to be taken up to-day and dismissed, perhaps, with unconcern to-morrow — but they involve questions of life and death.

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