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" an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure... "
Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island. 1889 - Page 153
1890
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New Guide to Health Or Botanic Family Physician: Containing a Complete ...

Samuel Thomson - 1835 - 428 pages
...powers, not forgetting to keep up the inward heat, by giving occasionally, No. 2. 9. Keep always in mind, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure; and give medicine on the first appearance of disorder, before it becomes seated; for it may be then...
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Report, Volume 13, Parts 1837-1851

Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York - 1838 - 784 pages
...value, than the whole expense of the Institution from its origin. The adage in relation to health, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is emphatically true in morals and in systems for the prevention of crimes. We do not urge other considerations,...
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Transactions of the Kentucky State Medical Society ...

Kentucky State Medical Society - 1851 - 394 pages
...Society promises to be. Our State is yet young;—we have no overgrown citiea. It is. an old adage that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Now, therefore, is the time to engraft on the chartersof our towns and cities, provisions which shall...
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The Water-cure Journal, Volumes 11-12

1851 - 316 pages
...health, by the observance of which this disease mny, with almost inevitable certainty, be prevented? That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is nowhere in the wide world more trus than iu regard to this disease. How much easier and better it...
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Fall of Poland: Containing an Analytical and a Philosophical ..., Volume 1

Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 600 pages
...principles thus taught by the divine art. Natural and moral philosophy both agree in the doctrine, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. And if we would preserve the morals of youth, they must be brought habitually in contact with moral...
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Travels in South and North America

Alexander Marjoribanks - 1853 - 504 pages
...peruse them, and have been afflicted with gout, that there is a great deal of truth in the trite maxim that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Gout is produced by a certain acidity of the stomach, frequently caused by over-indulgence of some...
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Sermons

David Merrill - 1855 - 316 pages
...sin, even on my own principles — a sin which I fear will go far to the ruin of many souls. I know that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," — that it is easier to keep ten men from becoming drunkards than to reform one. A society is formed...
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A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera

Horatio Gates Jameson - 1855 - 316 pages
...Baltimore in the year 1832. EPIDEMIC CHOLERA IN BALTIMORE IN THE YEAR 1832. There is an old saying, that "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure;" admit this, as a truth, and it is but a mite in comparison with the disparity between the means of...
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What is Congelation? Or, The Benumbing Influence of Cold in Producing ...

R. E. Harrison - 1858 - 108 pages
...opposing surface, so that in losing one the grinding power of two is sacrificed. The old Chinese saw, that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," has been not inaptly applied to a carious tooth — the ounce of prevention is having it stopped in...
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Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening

Robert Morris Copeland - 1859 - 876 pages
...attention ; in nothing more than in the various branches of gardening, is the old proverb exemplified, that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." By the last of the month the largest Radishes may be thinned, and there will be ample supplies of Lettuce...
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