The Annals of Hygiene, Volume 8University of Pennsylvania Press, 1893 |
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Page 283 - Where once we held debate, a band Of youthful friends, on mind and art, And labour, and the changing mart, And all the framework of the land...
Page 726 - BABY POWDER." THE "HYGIENIC DERMAL POWDER" FOR INFANTS AND ADULTS. Originally investigated, and its therapeutic properties discovered in the year 1868 by Dr. Fehr, and introduced to the Medical and Pharmaceutical professions in the year 1873.
Page 256 - Treasury, necessary to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States...
Page 726 - Send for descriptive circular. Physicians who wish to test it will be furnished, upon application, with a sample, by mail, or a full size bottle without expense, except express charges. Prepared under the direction of Prof. EN Horsford, by the RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, Providence, RI Beware of Substitutes and Imitations.
Page 699 - The mails were conveyed to and from New York, Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia three times a week in summer and twice a week in winter.
Page 257 - ... and by the military officers commanding in any fort or station upon the seacoast; and all such officers of the United States shall faithfully aid in the execution of such quarantines and health laws, according to their respective powers and within their respective precincts, and as they shall be directed, from time to time, by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Page 726 - DYSPEPSIA. Deranged digestion is the most common of all human ailments. It is a truism that no organ of the body can preserve its normal integrity when its supplying nerve is disordered by lowered tone, but this fact is largely ignored in these modern pepsin days— the cause being lost sight of whilst trying to remedy the effect. It is well known that any unusual worry or anxiety will upset the digestion of the neurotic patient. Hence, in treating dyspepsia, particularly atonic dyspepsia, that form...
Page xvi - Prompt ; it stimulates the appetite and the digestion, it promotes assimilation, and it enters directly into the circulation with the food products. The prescribed dose produces a feeling of buoyancy, and removes depression and melancholy ; hence the preparation is of great value in the treatment of mental and nervous affections. From the fact, also, that it exerts a double tonic influence, and induces a healthy flow of the secretions, its use is indicated in a wide range of diseases. NOTICE— CAUTION....
Page 384 - The malic acid of ripe apples, either raw or cooked, will neutralize any excess of chalky matter engendered by eating too much meat. It is also the fact that such fresh...
Page 523 - It will be desirable, however, to restrict the term ventilation to the removal, by a stream of pure air, of the pulmonary and cutaneous exhalations of men, and of the products of combustion of lights in ordinary dwellings, to which must be added, in hospitals, the additional effluvia which proceed from the persons and discharges of the sick. All other causes of impurity of air ought to be excluded by cleanliness, proper removal of solid and fluid excreta, and attention to the conditions surrounding...