On diet and regimen in sickness and health, and on the interdependence and prevention of diseases and the diminution of their fatality

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H.K. Lewis, 1870 - 151 pages

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Page 154 - The CLIMATE of the SOUTH of FRANCE as SUITED to INVALIDS; with Notices of Mediterranean and other Winter Stations. By CT WILLIAMS, MAMD Oxon. Assistant-Physician to the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton. Second Edition. Crown Svo. 6s. REPORTS on the PROGRESS of PRACTICAL and SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE in Different Parts of the World.
Page 22 - By means of a cotton-wool respirator, so far as the germs are concerned, the air of the highest Alps may be brought into the chamber of the invalid.
Page 33 - Mr. Maclaren has well observed in his excellent work on "Physical Education,'81 that "a most important principle in exercise, and one that should ever be borne in mind, is that it should be regulated by individual fitness; for the exercise that scarcely amounts to exertion in one person, will be injurious and dangerous to another; and not only is this inequality observable among different individuals, but the same individual may have parts of his body possessing special power or presenting special...
Page 93 - Plates. 8vo. cloth, 12s. 6d. LECTURES ON THE GERMS AND VESTIGES OF DISEASE, and on the Prevention of the Invasion and Fatality of Disease by Periodical Examinations. 8vo.
Page 69 - ... have been driven into drunkenness or lunacy, or both, by the careless folly of advisers, who had no better reason for the prescription of large doses of alcohol than the fact that these diseases are attended with nervous weakness, as they undoubtedly are. The assumption involved — that so much ingested alcohol is necessarily so much added nervous strength — is so gross a fallacy that no one would assent to it if expressed in plain words. Yet we constantly see it acted upon. We repeat, with...
Page 22 - But after some time an obscure disc appears upon the beam, the darkness of which increases, until finally, towards the end of the expiration, the beam is, as it were, pierced by an intensely black hole, in which no particles whatever can be discerned. The air, in fact, has so lodged its dirt within the passage to the lungs as to render the last portions of the expired breath absolutely free from suspended matter.
Page 144 - Put a tablespoonful of shredded beef-suet into £ pint of fresh milk, warm it sufficiently to completely melt the suet, then skim it, pour it into a warm glass or cup, and drink it before it cools. If there is any difficulty in digesting the suet add 10 gr.
Page 95 - ... instrumentality for the prevention of disease, the prevention of the vestiges of disease, and the prevention of fatality in disease, is to search out these earliest evasive periods, of defect in the physiological state, and to adopt measures for their remedy. This appears to me to be the highest, the most ennobled duty of the physician, calling for the most abstruse knowledge of the science of life, the deepest experience in disease, the keenest exercise of the perceptive faculties, the calmest,...
Page 68 - We are no bigots against alcohol ; and we are heartily sick of the unthinking abuse which has been lavished on what it is the fashion to call "indiscriminate stimulation in acute disease.

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