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Page 29 - Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.' CHAP. XVI. The Master said, The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!' CHAP. XVII. The Master said, 'Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;— this is knowledge.
Page 49 - Truth crushed to earth, will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers: But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Page 326 - I find present between 69 and 70 per cent, of albumenoids, that is, flesh-forming material (nitrogen 10.94) ; more than 20 per cent, of warmth-producing substance, nearly half of which is milk sugar, and rather more than half fat ; 3 per cent, of bone-forming phosphates ; about 2 per cent, of other normal mineral matter, and about 5 per cent, of moisture. A sample of the constituent gluten submitted to me was practically pure, containing a mere trace of starch. Rather more than one-fourth of the...
Page 520 - When ye be come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession...
Page 61 - A red, dry tongue — inflammatory fever. A red, glazed tongue — general fever, loss of digestion. A tremulous, moist and flabby tongue — feebleness, nervousness. A glazed tongue, with blue appearance — tertiary syphilis.
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Page 20 - Guinea-pig shrieks, the poor dog yells, the noble horse groans and strains — the heartless vivisector perhaps resenting the struggle which annoys him. My heart sickens as I recall the spectacle at Alfort, in former times, of a wretched horse, one of many hundreds, broken with age and disease resulting...
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Page 326 - Beef Peptonoids" state that this food is composed of dry lean of beef, one-third ; the solids of milk, minus most of the fat, one-third ; the gluten of wheat, one-third ; the beef being partially digested or
Page 93 - alkaline treatment,'" says Dr. Fuller, "I mean a plan of treatment in which alkalies play an important part, but which consists not only in the administration of alkalies, but in the careful regulation of the secretions, the strictest attention to diet, and the administration of tonics, such as quinine and bark, as soon as the patient can bear them.