Lessons in Physiology and Hygiene: In Two Books : Second Book for Advanced Grades, Book 2Maynard, Merrill, & Company, 1895 - 327 pages |
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Page 136 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, ] ° Whose streams of brightening purple rush. Fired with a new and livelier blush. While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.
Page 58 - August, about one in the afternoon, my mother desired him to observe a cloud which appeared of a very unusual size and shape. He had just returned from taking the benefit of the sun*, and after bathing himself in cold water, and taking a slight repast, was retired to his study.
Page 208 - There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both. The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others ; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
Page 211 - ... power to attempt. He lies under the weight of incubus and nightmare ; he lies in sight of all that he would fain perform, just as a man forcibly confined to his bed by the mortal languor of a relaxing disease, who is compelled to witness injury or outrage offered to some object of his tenderest love : he curses the ; spells which chain him down from motion ; he would lay down his life if he might but get up and walk ; but he is powerless as an infant, and cannot even ; attempt to rise.
Page 67 - The Code of the School of Salernum. • Animals will travel long distances to obtain salt. Men will barter gold tt,e it ; indeed, among the Gallas and on the coast of Sierra Leone, brothers will sell their sisters, husbands their wives, and parents their children for salt. In the district of Accra, on the gold coast of Africa, a handful of salt is the most valuable thing upon earth after gold, and will purchase a slave or two. Mungo Park tells us that with the Mandingoes and Bambaras the use of salt...
Page 287 - ... when the patient reposes on the chest, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration takes place; when he is turned on the side, this pressure is removed, and inspiration occurs.
Page 290 - ... permanganate of potash that may be used. Sulphur is much used for the fumigation of rooms that have been infected. Another cheap disinfectant is a solution of chloride of lead. It is inodorous, effective, and the cost is small. Take half a drachm of the nitrate and dissolve it in a pint or more of boiling water. Dissolve two drachms of common salt in a pail or bucket of water ; pour the two solutions together, and allow the sediment to sink. A cloth dipped in this solution, and hung up in a room,...
Page 311 - Literally, a lentil; a piece of transparent glass or other substance so shaped as either to converge or disperse the rays of light.
Page 314 - ACTION. An involuntary action of the nervous system, by which an external impression conducted by a sensory nerve is reflected, or converted into a motor impulse.
Page 136 - No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort ; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort.