American Modern Practice; Or, A Simple Method of Prevention and Cure of Diseases: According to the Latest Improvements and Discoveries, Comprising a Practical System Adapted to the Use of Medical Practitioners of the United States. To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing an Account of Many Domestic Remedies Recently Introduced Into Practice, and Some Approved Formulae, Applicable to the Diseases of Our ClimateCottons & Barnard, 1826 - 796 páginas |
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Página 108 - Uncommon good humor, and an insipid simpering or laugh. 5. Profane swearing, and cursing. 6. A disclosure of their own, or other people's secrets. 7. A rude disposition to tell those persons in company whom they know, their faults. 8. Certain immodest actions. I am sorry to say, this sign of the first stage of drunkenness, sometimes appears Jn women, who, when sober, are uniformly remarkable for chaste and decent manners.
Página 125 - A citizen of Philadelphia, had made many unsuccessful attempts to cure his wife of drunkenness. At length, despairing of her reformation, he purchased a hogshead of rum, and, after tapping it, left the key in the door of the room in which it was placed, as if he had forgotten it. His design was to give his wife an opportunity of drinking herself to death. She suspected this to be his motive, in what he had done, and suddenly left off drinking.
Página 112 - Who can measure the shame and aversion which she excites in her husband? Is he the father, or is she the mother, of a family of children? See their averted looks from their parent, and their blushing looks at each other! Is he a magistrate or has he been chosen to fill a high and respectable station in the councils of his country? What humiliating fears of corruption in the administration of the laws, and of the subversion of public order and happiness, appear in the countenances of all who see him!...
Página 83 - ... of a morning ride, but of making long journeys, in which there is the farther advantage of a perpetual change of air. Numbers of people, reduced to a state of great weakness, have, by...
Página 35 - ... of proficiency in the different branches of literature, science and art, according to rules to be determined by the bye-laws...
Página vii - ... and also to an Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.
Página 344 - This species of fever is evidently of the remittent kind, and has exacerbations twice every day. The first occurs usually about noon, and a slight remission ensues about five in the afternoon. This last is, however, soon succeeded by another exacerbation, which increases gradually until after midnight; but about two o'clock in the morning, a remission takes place, and this becomes more apparent as the morning advances.
Página 200 - If the attack has been very severe, then perhaps delirium will arise. When these symptoms have continued for some time, a moisture breaks out on the forehead, and by degrees becomes a sweat, and this, at length, extends over the whole body. As this sweat continues to flow, the heat of the body abates, the thirst ceases, and most of the functions are restored to their ordinary state. This constitutes the third stage.
Página 113 - Deity, nor from any of the instruments of it which were created by him. It is death from suicide. Yes — thou poor degraded creature, who art daily lifting the poisoned bowl to thy lips — cease to avoid the unhallowed ground in which the self-murderer is interred, and wonder no longer that the sun should shine, and the rain fall, and the grass look green upon his grave. Thou art perpetrating gradually, by the use of ardent spirits, what he has effected suddenly by opium — or a halter. Considering...