Short Lectures on Sanitary Subjects

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Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1874 - 192 pagina's

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Pagina 190 - Practical Lessons in the Nature and Treatment of the Affections produced by the Contagious Diseases; with Chapters on Syphilitic Inoculation, Infantile Syphilis, and the Results of the Contagious Diseases Acts. Sixty coloured and plain Illustrations. By JOHN MORGAN, MD, FRCS, Professor of Anatomy in the Royal College of Surgeons, Physician to the Lock Hospitals, Dublin. Second thousand. Paper wrapper, $s. ; cloth. 6^. '" ' "Contains much that is original and of practical importance.
Pagina 175 - ... exposure of animal and sexual nakedness, as is rather bestial than human. To be subject to these influences is a degradation which must become deeper and deeper for those on whom it continues to work. To children who are born under its curse it must often be a very baptism into infamy.
Pagina 177 - ... he holds, which strangers have held before, and may to-morrow occupy again, has a worthier root, struck deep into a purer soil. His household gods are of flesh and blood, with no alloy of silver, gold, or precious Btone ; he has no property but in the affections of his own heart...
Pagina 72 - ... be drawn upon a hurdle from the Guildhall to his own house through the great street where there be most people assembled, and through the great streets which are most dirty, with the faulty loaf hanging from his neck...
Pagina 181 - Dr. Letheby's position and authority on the subject of food is so pre-eminent, that a book from his pen is above criticism." — Lancet. "Either as a text-book for schools or as a household guide, it is excellently adapted.
Pagina 180 - Lecture I. The Necessity of Sanitary Science. II. Air. III. Sanitary Science in the Sick Room. IV. Ventilation. V. The Relation of Popular Literature to the Public Health; VI. Food. VII. Clothing. VIII. Cleanliness. IX. Sanitary Science in Relation to the Training and_ Education of the Young.
Pagina 156 - ... viz. four frogs, three small birds, two fishes, one mole, and two grasshoppers, besides the entrails of a fish, and two morsels of the lungs of an ox. In another experiment a single beetle buried a mole forty times its own bulk and weight in two days.
Pagina 188 - Parts 3, 4, and 5 separately, forming a complete Practical Treatise on Acids, Alkalies, and Salts : their Manufacture and Application. In three vols., £4 IQS.
Pagina 1 - Those who study the physical sciences, and bring them to bear upon the health of Man, tell us that if the noxious particles that rise from vitiated air were palpable to the sight, we should see them lowering in a dense black cloud above sucb haunts, and rolling slowly on to corrupt the better portions of a town.
Pagina 96 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.

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