The Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, Volume 19Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1897 |
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Page 133 - I confess, a virtuous herb, if it be well qualified, opportunely taken, and medicinally used ; but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.
Page 370 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 218 - HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE. Recommended as a restorative in all cases where the nervous system has been reduced below the normal standard, by overwork, as found in brainworkers, professional men, teachers, students, etc., in debility from seminal losses, dyspepsia of nervous origin, insomnia where the nervous system suffers.
Page 228 - I HAD a vision when the night was late : A youth came riding toward a palace-gate. He rode a horse with wings that would have flown, But that his heavy rider kept him down. And from the palace came a child of sin, And took him by the curls, and led him in, Where sat a company with heated eyes, Expecting when a fountain should arise : A sleepy light upon their brows and lips — As when the sun, a crescent of eclipse...
Page 327 - I thought of the Aletris Cordial at once, and gave her a six-ounce bottle, directing her to take a teaspoonful three times a day, commencing four or five days before the regular period. Several weeks afterward she returned with the empty bottle, remarking, "I've come back for more of that medicine, for it's the only thing I ever had to give me relief.
Page 75 - Over the Hookah, The Tales of a Talkative Doctor. By G. Frank Lydston, MD, Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, Professor of Criminal Anthropology in the Kent College of Law, etc.
Page 107 - June 10th to see Mrs. McG. Patient had been under treatment of Dr. R., who had been called but failed to answer. Found patient suffering with Acute Mania, very violent and destructive. On questioning family found patient had delivered herself four days previous of a three months foetus.
Page 218 - 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 117 - habitual drunkard" means a person who, not being amenable to any jurisdiction in lunacy is notwithstanding by reason of habitual intemperate drinking of intoxicating liquor, at times dangerous to himself or herself or to others, or incapable of managing himself or herself and his or her affairs.
Page 406 - I saw it then and the appearance it usually presents to me was the difference one may often observe between the picture of a room and the actual room. The shadows I saw were the shadows which the artist puts in, but which are not visible in the actual scene under normal conditions of casual inspection.