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... death in 1919 , a number of years ago had a vague abdominal pain that caused him great concern . After a number of month's he went to a masseur , who rubbed his back , using an ointment for which he claimed great powers not possessed by ...
... death in 1919 , a number of years ago had a vague abdominal pain that caused him great concern . After a number of month's he went to a masseur , who rubbed his back , using an ointment for which he claimed great powers not possessed by ...
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... death rate for this disease was the lowest ever recorded , according to figures compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company . Based on statistics from one - seventh of the total population of the United States and Canada , the death ...
... death rate for this disease was the lowest ever recorded , according to figures compiled by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company . Based on statistics from one - seventh of the total population of the United States and Canada , the death ...
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... death and birth rates increased , and he says that figures now show that Detroit ranks higher than any other city in the country in the number of births on a per capita basis , while the city stands fifteenth on the list of infant deaths ...
... death and birth rates increased , and he says that figures now show that Detroit ranks higher than any other city in the country in the number of births on a per capita basis , while the city stands fifteenth on the list of infant deaths ...
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... deaths in New York have been reduced more than two - thirds in the last eigh- teen months by the use of an electric suction pump introduced shortly before his death , in April , 1922 , by Dr. Henry L. Lynah , former attending ...
... deaths in New York have been reduced more than two - thirds in the last eigh- teen months by the use of an electric suction pump introduced shortly before his death , in April , 1922 , by Dr. Henry L. Lynah , former attending ...
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... death because of a lack of di- gestion and assimilation . While the adverse picture is a blight . there is a favorable side to the use of spirituous liquors in lowered vital condi- tion caused by disease . Whiskey is a sick- room ...
... death because of a lack of di- gestion and assimilation . While the adverse picture is a blight . there is a favorable side to the use of spirituous liquors in lowered vital condi- tion caused by disease . Whiskey is a sick- room ...
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Page 236 - Each essay must be typewritten, distinguished by a motto, and accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the same motto and containing the name and address of the writer. No envelope will be opened except that which accompanies the successful essay. The Committee will return the unsuccessful essays, if reclaimed by their respective writers, or their agents, within one year. The Committee reserves the right...
Page 93 - Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn .again and rend you.
Page 138 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Page 350 - The knowledge which a man can use is the only real knowledge, the only knowledge which has life and growth in it, and converts itself into practical power. The rest hangs like dust about the brain, or dries like raindrops off the stones.
Page 46 - Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Page 85 - Merciful heaven ! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Splitt'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle : but man, proud man ! Dress'd in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep : who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 395 - I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, — and all the worse for the fishes.
Page 236 - Shall be awarded every five years to the writer of the best original essay, not exceeding 150 printed pages, octavo, in length, illustrative of some subject in Surgical Pathology or Surgical Practice, founded upon original investigations, the candidates for the prize to be American citizens.
Page 275 - Not in the clamor of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
Page 93 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit ; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.