Comprehensive Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: Adapted for Schools, Academies, Colleges, and Families : with Instruction on the Effects of Stimulants and Narcotics, and Brief Directions for Illustrative Dissections of Mammals, for Elementary Work with the Microscope, for Physiological Demonstrations on the Human Body, and for the Management of Emergent CasesJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1888 - 384 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 225 - Whatever opinion other more experienced observers may hold, I cannot but think, after what I have seen, that the extreme passion for getting rich, absorbing the whole energies of a life, does predispose to mental degeneration in the offspring — either to moral defect, or to moral and intellectual deficiency, or to outbreaks of positive insanity under the conditions of life.
الصفحة 40 - In case of extreme cold, besides wool, leather, or waterproof clothing is useful. Cotton and linen are nearly equal. Protection against Heat. — Texture has nothing to do with protection from the direct solar rays ; this depends entirely on color.
الصفحة 165 - ... branches before entering a gland. They collect the products of digestion and the products of worn-out tissues, and convey them into the venous circulation near the heart.
الصفحة 351 - I frequently hear of promising students who have thus failed ; and, on inquiry, have learned — in almost every instance — that the victim has previously drugged himself with tea or coffee. Sleep is the rest of the brain ; to rob the hard-worked brain of its necessary rest is cerebral suicide.
الصفحة 349 - The moment that a man had swallowed a drink of spirits, it was certain that his day's work was nearly at an end. It was absolutely necessary that the rule of total abstinence be rigidly enforced, if we would accomplish our day's task.
الصفحة 225 - If the evil ended with the individual who, by the indulgence of a pernicious custom, injures his own health, and impairs his faculties of mind and body, he might be left to his enjoyments — his 'Fools' Paradise
الصفحة 225 - The enervation, the hypochondriasis, the hysteria, the insanity, the dwarfish deformities, the consumption, the suffering lives and early deaths of the children of inveterate smokers, bear ample testimony to the feebleness and unsoundness of the constitution transmitted by this pernicious habit.
الصفحة 260 - Remove the front convex lens from a pair of operaglasses, or procure a convex lens with a gradual curve. Hold it opposite a window, and place a piece of white paper behind it to act as a screen. A small reversed picture of the window-frame will appear on the paper. " If the paper be moved to a certain distance, varying with each lens, the picture will become clear and distinct, yet with color-rings about the edges. At that distance from the lens the paper is said to be in focus. If the paper be moved...
الصفحة 110 - A change of air is less valuable than a change of scene. The air is changed every time the wind is changed. 7. Mould and decaying vegetables in a cellar weave shrouds for the upper chambers.
الصفحة 178 - Some use as the unit of heat the heat required to raise one pound of water from 32° F.