China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade : with a Glance at Our Religious, Moral, Political and Commercial Intercourse with the CountryWm. S. Orr & Company, 1849 |
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Pàgina viii
... prove distasteful to the British merchants in China , and , although we have some valued friends amongst them , we consider it a duty we owe to the religion we profess , and the sovereign to whom we have sworn allegiance , to declare ...
... prove distasteful to the British merchants in China , and , although we have some valued friends amongst them , we consider it a duty we owe to the religion we profess , and the sovereign to whom we have sworn allegiance , to declare ...
Pàgina 7
... prove injurious to health ; but when this is combined with nights of piercing cold , when the thermometer falls below freezing point , and water freezes in the ewer , placed in a bed - chamber , the effect upon a European constitution ...
... prove injurious to health ; but when this is combined with nights of piercing cold , when the thermometer falls below freezing point , and water freezes in the ewer , placed in a bed - chamber , the effect upon a European constitution ...
Pàgina 8
... prove fatal . The scourge most dreaded in China is the fever termed the Hong - Kong fever , which has proved more fatal than cholera morbus , and at the time we now write , November 1848 , so terribly has this fever pre- vailed among ...
... prove fatal . The scourge most dreaded in China is the fever termed the Hong - Kong fever , which has proved more fatal than cholera morbus , and at the time we now write , November 1848 , so terribly has this fever pre- vailed among ...
Pàgina 9
... proved successful in one case will be ineffectual if adopted in another ; and medical men admit that medicine is of little service in this fever . All that can be done is to administer aperients , febrifuges , and apply cooling lotions ...
... proved successful in one case will be ineffectual if adopted in another ; and medical men admit that medicine is of little service in this fever . All that can be done is to administer aperients , febrifuges , and apply cooling lotions ...
Pàgina 11
... prove that we are not singular in our belief and report of the insalubrity of Hong - Kong , we will quote from the Reverend George Smith's Explora- tory Visit , page 507 ; " on the disadvantage of the climate the author is indisposed to ...
... prove that we are not singular in our belief and report of the insalubrity of Hong - Kong , we will quote from the Reverend George Smith's Explora- tory Visit , page 507 ; " on the disadvantage of the climate the author is indisposed to ...
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China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and ..., Volum 1 Henry Charles Sirr Visualització completa - 1849 |
China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufactures ... Henry Charles Sirr Visualització de fragments - 1849 |
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