 ... of which declared that it contained all the secrets of medicine. On opening the volume every page, except one, was blank. On that page was written, ' Keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open.  Medical Brief - Page 3471906Full view - About this book
 | Henry Jacob Bigelow, Edward Hammond Clarke, Samuel David Gross, John Shaw Billings, Theodore Gaillard Thomas - 1876 - 392 pages
...secrets of medicine. On opening the volume every page, except one, was blank. On that one was written, "keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open." This legacy of Boerhaave to suffering humanity typified, not inaptly or unjustly, the acquirements, not... | |
 | John Custis Darby - 1880 - 418 pages
...secrets of medicine. On opening the volume every page, except one, was blank. On that page was written, ' Keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open.' This legacy of Boerhaave to suffering humanity typified not inaptly or unjustly the acquirements, not of... | |
 | Ohio State Medical Society - 1880 - 164 pages
...secrets of medicine. On opening the volume, every page except one, was blank. On that page was written, "Keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open." This legacy typified not unaptly or unjustly the acquirements of medical art at the close of the eighteenth... | |
 | Albert Carey - 1884 - 170 pages
...Senna, &c. There is abundance of wisdom and practical application of knowledge in the old recommendation to " keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open." Division VIII— Treatment of Slight Wounds and Accidents. CHAPTEE XXXII. WOUNDS, CUTS, BURNS AND SCALDS,... | |
 | 1892 - 736 pages
...only was there any writing. Astonished at the result of their search, they read but one sentence, " Keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels open; " this was the old man's secret of health. Can we improve very much upon that to-day ? We must keep a good... | |
 | Kentucky State Medical Society - 1892 - 366 pages
...pure drops of wisdom that fall in proverbs from the accumulated experience of ages, none is safer than to keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open. Dr. Beer has recently recommended mechanical dilatation of the sphincter ani in the treatment of chronic... | |
 | Union University (Schenectady, N.Y.) - 1897 - 550 pages
...secrets of medicine. On opening the volume every page except one was blank; on that one was written : ' Keep the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open.' This legacy of Boerhaave to suffering humanity typified, not inaptly or unjustly, the acquirements of medical... | |
 | 1914 - 406 pages
...we eat. DR. JNO. J. MOREN : One old rule that has been laid down to be healthy and live a long time is to "keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels open." My personal observation has been that those individuals who have attained a healthy old age have been... | |
 | 1906 - 986 pages
...Exercise, Diet and "Visceral Drainage." BY BYRON ROBIXSOX, BS, MD, Chicago, 111. (Continued from page 351.) Visceral Circulation in Constipation. — The...circulation, respiration, and particularly on the tractus glandularis — secretions. The most important visceral tract of life itself is the tractus vascularls,... | |
 | William Walace Merritt - 1906 - 428 pages
...the work disclosed the fact that all the pages except one were blank, and on that one was written, "Keep the head cool, the feet warm and the bowels open." This legend of Boerhave illustrates, not inaptly, the requirements of medical art a century ago. Slowly... | |
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