American Medicine, Volume 32American-Medicine Publishing Company, 1926 |
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Page 498 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 634 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Page 495 - The teachings of the two Professors in the great schools of Philadelphia are sure to be listened to, not only by their immediate pupils, but by the Profession at large. I am too much in earnest for either humility or vanity, but I do entreat those who hold the keys of life and death, to listen to me also for this once. I ask no personal favor ; but I beg to be heard in behalf of the women whose lives are at stake, until some stronger voice shall plead for them.
Page 353 - THE murmur of a waterfall A mile away, The rustle when a robin lights Upon a spray, The lapping of a lowland stream On dipping boughs, The sound of grazing from a herd Of gentle cows, The echo from a wooded hill Of cuckoo's call, The quiver through the meadow grass At evening fall ; Too subtle are these harmonies For pen and rule, Such music is not understood But when the brain is overwrought It hath a spell, Beyond all human skill and power, To make it well.
Page 495 - The practical point to be illustrated is the following : The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses.
Page 495 - No tongue can tell the heart-breaking calamity they have caused; they have closed the ayes just opened upon a new world of love and happiness; they have bowed the strength of manhood into the dust; they have cast the helplessness of infancy into the stranger's arms, or bequeathed it, with less cruelty, the death of its dying parent. There...
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Page 572 - To tens of thousands that are killed, add hundreds of thousands that survive with feeble constitutions, and millions that grow up with constitutions not so strong as they should be; and you will have some idea of the curse inflicted on their offspring by parents ignorant of the laws of life.
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