Texas Medical Journal, Volume 25

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Mrs. F. E. Daniel, 1910
 

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Page 27 - canopy Once shone the bright and busy eye, But start not at the dismal void— If social love that eye employed, If with no lawless fire it gleamed, But through the dews of kindness beamed, That eye shall be forever bright Within this hollow cavern hung The ready, swift, and tuneful tongue; If Falsehood's honey it disdained, And
Page 226 - Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour; so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and
Page 187 - And this man is now become a god, and Cassius is a wretched creature, and must bend his body if Csesar but carelessly nod on him,
Page 198 - be spent. We must learn to realize that our deadliest foes are not the great nations across the sea, but the tiny microbes that surround us. It is these microscopic enemies that destroy the major part of the human race, yet as Pasteur said: "It is within the power of man to rid himself of every parasitic disease.
Page 66 - Assembly of the State of Indiana, that on and after the passage of this act it shall be compulsory for each and every institution in the State, entrusted with the care of confirmed criminals, idiots, rapists and imbeciles, to appoint upon its staff, in addition to the regular institutional physician, two skilled surgeons of recognized ability, whose
Page 4 - I have long been convinced that institutions, purely democratic, must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both. Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. Either some Casar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your Republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste, by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire
Page 30 - It is easy enough to be pleasant When life goes on like a song; But the man worth while is the man who can smile When the telephone rings and he answers it And says "Hello," and the operator says "What number ?" and he says, "The bell rang,'
Page 66 - are recommended by the institutional physician and board of managers. If, in the judgment of this committee of experts and the board of managers, procreation is inadvisable and there is no probability of improvement of the mental condition of the inmate, it shall be lawful for the surgeons to perform such operation for the prevention of procreation as shall be decided safest and most
Page 187 - walk under his huge legs, and peep about to find ourselves dishonorable graves. * * * "It is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 160 - sweeter while they last. And oft, mild friend, to me thou art A monitor, though still; Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart Beyond the preacher's skill. Thou'rt like the man of worth who gives To goodness every day; The odor of whose virtue lives When he has passed away.

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