The American Journal of Physiologic Therapeutics, Volume 1

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1911
 

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Page 376 - Meanwhile it is singular how long the rotten will hold together, provided you do not handle it roughly. For whole generations it continues standing, ' with a ghastly affectation of life,' after all life and truth has fled out of it : so loth are men to quit their old ways ; and, conquering indolence and inertia, venture on new.
Page 263 - There is nothing, sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Page 116 - MD, Professor of Physical Education and Director of the Department. University of Pennsylvania. Octavo of 393 pages, with 346 original illustrations.
Page 74 - When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Page 214 - My friends, even in a mere worldly way, the men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came, and so found the truth of the old proverb, that ' Good times, and bad times, and all times pass over.
Page 323 - On the other hand, the reduction of carbohydrates even in well-marked diabetes, should not, except for brief periods, be below the 80 gram limit already mentioned. In diabetes of the grade in which the sugar is formed from fat and proteid ingesta and tissues, the writer would not express an opinion. Anyway, it is a case of "Damned if you do and damned if you don't." Very varied affections of the alimentary canal call for the more or less prolonged exclusion of certain foods that are mechanically...
Page 338 - Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch ; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Page 177 - Diseases of the Stomach and Intestines. By ROBERT COLEMAN KEMP, MD, Professor of Gastro-intestinal Diseases at the New York School of Clinical Medicine. Octavo of 766 pages, with 279 illustrations.
Page 32 - In traumatisms, especially those of the iris and lens, and in the early treatment of contusions of the lids, its employment is of value. 6. In purulent conjunctivitis iced applications may be continuously used for many hours so long as the cornea remains unimpaired, in which instance they are positively contraindicated.
Page 449 - ... food do not exceed fifty per cent of the amount generally consumed. One-half of the 118 grams of proteid food called for daily by the ordinary dietary standards is quite sufficient to meet all the real physiological needs of the body, certainly under ordinary conditions of life ; and with most individuals, especially persons not leading an active out-of-door life, even smaller amounts will suffice. Excess means waste, but of far greater importance is the unnecessary strain placed upon the body...

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