Anatomy and Physiology Rendered Attractive, and the Laws of Health Made Plain, in Conversations Between a Physician and His Children: Designed for Schools and Families, and for General ReadingDegen and Estes, 1864 - 441 Seiten |
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Seite 322 - A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was Man design'd ; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd, and fit to rule the rest...
Seite 429 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Seite 336 - So am I made to possess months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone ? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Seite 322 - Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend, Man looks aloft ; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
Seite 394 - I rather believe that almost, every malady to which the human frame is subject is either by highways or byways connected with the stomach ; and I must own I never see a fashionable physician mysteriously counting the pulse of a plethoric patient, or, with a silver spoon on his tongue, importantly looking down his red, inflamed gullet, (so properly termed by Johnson " the meat-pipe,") but I feel a desire to exclaim, " Why not tell the poor gentleman at once — Sir ! you've eaten too much, you've...
Seite 352 - Toil, and be strong. By toil the flaccid nerves Grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone ; The greener juices are by toil subdu'd, Mellow'd and subtiliz'd; the vapid old Expell'd, and all the rancour of the blood.
Seite 395 - We are all guilty of it, not occasionally, but habitually, and almost uniformly, from the cradle to the grave. It is the bane alike of our infancy and youth, our maturity and age. It is infinitely more common than intemperance in drinking, and the aggregate of the mischief is greater. For every reeling drunkard that disgraces our country it contains one hundred gluttons — ' persons, I mean, who eat to excess and suffer by the practice.
Seite 406 - We may therefore safely infer that the earth was less productive after the flood than it was before, and that the human constitution was greatly impaired by the alterations which had taken place through the whole economy of nature. Morbid debility, induced by an often unfriendly state of the atmosphere, with sore and long-continued labor, would necessarily require a higher nutriment than vegetables could supply.
Seite 394 - That these are the main causes of almost every one's illness, there can be no greater proof than that those savage nations which live actively and temperately have only one great disorder — death. The human frame was not created imperfect — it is we ourselves who have made it so ; tJiere exists no donkey in creation so overladen as our stomachs...
Seite 406 - Morbid debility, induced by an often unfriendly state of the atmosphere, with sore and long-continued labor, would necessarily require a higher nutriment than vegetables could supply. That this was the case appears sufficiently clear from the grant of animal food, which, had it not been indispensably necessary, had not been made. That the constitution of man was then much altered appears...