Good Health ..., Volum 2A. Moore, 1871 |
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acetic acid action alveoles ammonia animal antimony aorta appearance arteries auricle become blood body boiled brain bread called carbonic acid cause chemical chest chicory child chloroform cloth cocoa coffee cold color consumption contains copper cornea corrosive sublimate cough cure death digestion disease effect experiments eyeball fact fibrin fluid give gluten grains hair heart heat human injury kind known lady lead leprosy less light lime living lungs matter means medicine membrane ment mercury mind minutes muscles nature near-sightedness observed ophthalmoscope organs oxalic acid oxide oxygen pain pass patient persons phosphoric acid physician poison potash present produced pulmonary artery quantity remedy result retina salt seen skin starch stomach substance sugar sulphate surgeon swimming symptoms tain thing tion tissues tobacco valves vegetable veins ventricle vessels
Passatges populars
Pàgina 269 - They braced my aunt against a board, To make her straight and tall ; They laced her up, they starved her down, To make her light and small; They pinched her feet, they singed her hair, They screwed it up with pins; — Oh, never mortal suffered more In penance for her sins.
Pàgina 255 - ... met, a pistol was put into his hand, which he fired, and was awakened by the report. On another occasion they found him asleep on the top of a locker...
Pàgina 91 - On each occasion that the body is replaced on the face, make uniform but efficient pressure with brisk movement, on the back between and below the shoulder-blades or bones on each side, removing the pressure immediately before turning the body on the side.
Pàgina 90 - ... and removing all tight clothing from the neck and chest, especially the braces. The points to be aimed at are : — First and immediately, the RESTORATION of BREATHING ; and secondly, after breathing is restored, the promotion of warmth and circulation. The efforts to restore breathing must be commenced immediately and energetically, and persevered in for one or two hours, or until a medical man has pronounced that life is extinct. Efforts to promote warmth and circulation, beyond removing the...
Pàgina 92 - Draw forward the patient's tongue, and keep it projecting beyond the lips ; an elastic band over the tongue and under the chin will answer this purpose, or a piece of string or tape may be tied...
Pàgina 93 - GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. The above treatment should be persevered in for some hours, as it is an erroneous opinion that persons are irrecoverable because life does not soon make its appearance, persons having been restored after persevering for many hours.
Pàgina 240 - A fine Newfoundland Dog, which was kept at an inn in Dorsetshire, was accustomed every morning as the clock struck eight, to take in his mouth a certain basket, placed for the purpose, and containing a few pence, and to carry it across the street to a baker's, who took out the money, and replaced it by a certain number of rolls. With these Neptune hastened back to the kitchen, and safely deposited his trust ; but, what was well worthy of remark, he never attempted to take the basket, or even to approach...
Pàgina 92 - The friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, etc., to the pit of the stomach, the armpits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
Pàgina 442 - Its chemical composition is explained by regarding it as hydric tartrate (tartaric acid), in which one atom of hydrogen has been replaced by an atom of...
Pàgina 78 - ... chicory are probably not injurious to health; but by prolonged and frequent use they produce heartburn, cramp in the stomach, loss of appetite, acidity in the mouth, constipation, with intermittent diarrhoea, weakness of the limbs, tremblings, sleeplessness, a drunken cloudiness of the senses, &c. &c. At the best, therefore, chicory is a substitute for coffee to which only those to whom the price is an object ought to have recourse.