Hydropathy: Or, The Water-cure; Its Principles, Modes of Treatment Etc...

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Wiley and Putnam, 1845 - 360 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 65 - ... in the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Σελίδα 65 - The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
Σελίδα 65 - The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.
Σελίδα v - Nor less new schools of Poetry arise, Where dull pretenders grapple for the prize : O'er taste awhile these pseudo-bards prevail ; Each country book-club bows the knee to Baal, And, hurling lawful genius from the throne, Erects a shrine and idol of its own ; Some leaden calf— but whom it matters...
Σελίδα 348 - London. The weather was so very terrific, that I had forgot his inveterate exactness, and had yielded up the hope of expecting him. Twelve at noon was the hour ; and exactly as the clock struck he entered...
Σελίδα 144 - Sedatives, direct and indirect, amongst which are included purgatives, emetics, and bleeding, are such as " diminish the action of the heart and other organs by repressing the nervous influence...
Σελίδα 321 - ... 83, the great frost, and the ice very thick), in order to the immersing himself, after he should come out of his bath. < In less than half an hour he was in so great a sweat that, when he came out, he was as wet as if he had come out of a river, and the...
Σελίδα 347 - ... both on rising and going to bed, swathed himself in coarse towels, wet with the coldest water : in that state he remained half an hour or more, and then threw them off, freshened and invigorated, as he said, beyond measure.
Σελίδα 212 - CONDIMENTS, particularly those of the spicy kind, are nonessential to the process of digestion, in a healthy state of the system. They afford no nutrition. Though they may assist the action of a debilitated stomach for a time, their continual use never fails to produce an indirect debility of that organ. They affect it as alcohol or other stimulants do — the present relief afforded is at the expense of future suffering.
Σελίδα 207 - ... it may be safely used at any time of the day, when there is no sense of chilliness present, when the heat of the surface is steadily above what is natural, and when there is no general or profuse sensible perspiration.

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