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Page 23 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, conditions, and circumstances, on the public health...
Page 67 - Prevent friends from crowding around the patient and excluding fresh air; also from trying to give stimulants before the patient can swallow. The first causes suffocation; the second, fatal choking. Do NOT GIVE UP TOO SOON. You are working for life. Any time within two hours you may be on the very threshold of success without there being any sign of it.
Page 178 - ... moiety thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other moiety thereof to the use of the United States.
Page 184 - Monday of every month, to the town clerk of the town in which such rite shall have been performed; and no marriage shall be solemnized until the parties shall have signed and delivered to the person about to solemnize it, or to the clerk of a meeting of the Society of Friends, a certificate containing the information required for the record of a marriage, as prescribed by this chapter.
Page 191 - ... of this chapter, if a physician was in attendance upon such person who has deceased or the person bringing forth such still-born child, and shall return the same, together with his own certificate of the information required by section three of this chapter, to the town clerk of the town where such death or bringing forth took place...
Page 66 - Precious time is wasted, and the patient may be fatally chilled by exposure of the naked body, even in summer. Give all your attention and effort to restore breathing by forcing air into, and out of, the lungs. If the breathing has just ceased, a smart slap on the face, or a vigorous twist of the hair will sometimes start it again, and may be tried incidentally, as may also, pressing the finger upon the root of the tongue. Before natural breathing is fully restored do not let the patient lie on his...
Page 184 - ... of the parents, and the time of recording, so far as the same can be ascertained. The record of a...
Page 188 - ... poisons, nor prevent him from administering or supplying to his patients such articles as he may deem fit and proper ; nor shall it interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary...
Page 221 - These appear more or less rapidly one after another, according to the severity of the general disease, and vary in size from that of a pea to that of a walnut (hickory nut).
Page 188 - ... poison ; but all prescriptions, whether or not composed in part or in whole of any of said ingredients, shall be carefully kept by the pharmacist on a file or in a book, used for that purpose only, and numbered in the order in which they are received or dispensed, and every box, bottle, vial, vessel, or packet containing medicines so dispensed, shall be...