Stellar Dust: Or The Life Force ...1896 - Astrology - 311 pages |
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... Explained Away - The Cause of Growth , Disease and Decay - Zodiacal Construction of the Brain and Body According to the Law of Twelve . -BY- PROFESSOR P. A. GRAVES , STUDENT OF ASTROLOGY . SAN FRANCISCO : 1899 . Copyright secured , 1896 ...
... Explained Away - The Cause of Growth , Disease and Decay - Zodiacal Construction of the Brain and Body According to the Law of Twelve . -BY- PROFESSOR P. A. GRAVES , STUDENT OF ASTROLOGY . SAN FRANCISCO : 1899 . Copyright secured , 1896 ...
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... explained away ; gases at- tracted by the earth ; attraction annihilates space ; influence of planets from different positions in heavens ; brain's attractive power . CHAP . II . WORLDS . Formation of all heav- enly bodies , luminous ...
... explained away ; gases at- tracted by the earth ; attraction annihilates space ; influence of planets from different positions in heavens ; brain's attractive power . CHAP . II . WORLDS . Formation of all heav- enly bodies , luminous ...
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... explain that I do not rush to the popular trough , drink with the herd and bellow for coin . But as that would be a very unnatural pleasure for me to enjoy , I must deem all such apologies out of place . Had I consulted public opinion ...
... explain that I do not rush to the popular trough , drink with the herd and bellow for coin . But as that would be a very unnatural pleasure for me to enjoy , I must deem all such apologies out of place . Had I consulted public opinion ...
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... explained many points of interest in connection with this new philosophy , but after seven years of careful study I found it very imperfect . I therefore concluded to give to the public a more complete rendering of the subject , and to ...
... explained many points of interest in connection with this new philosophy , but after seven years of careful study I found it very imperfect . I therefore concluded to give to the public a more complete rendering of the subject , and to ...
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... explain how it was done , to his own satisfaction , since he cannot under- stand how heat can be transmitted so great a distance with such a violent force simply by radiation , even if the sun rays did not become cooled in making the ...
... explain how it was done , to his own satisfaction , since he cannot under- stand how heat can be transmitted so great a distance with such a violent force simply by radiation , even if the sun rays did not become cooled in making the ...
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action animal astrologer atoms attraction bacilli benefic planets birth blood born brain cells brain force brain matter Capricornus cause chemical chemical elements child circulation combination of gases composed condition consequently created death degree disease diurnal motion doctor drugs duce earth effect elements embrio epinucleus exist explain fact flesh fluid foregoing fowl functions germ growth heart heavens horoscope incubation intelligence Jupiter known layers Libra lungs magnetic Mars medicine mental ments Mercury midheavens miles miles per hour mind moon mother motion muscles natural laws necessary nerves nervous system never nucleus orbit ovum pass perfect perform physical planetary brain planetary gases planets possess produce protoplasm reason receive reproduce result rising Saturn scientific Scorpio sick solar solar system species spermatazoa stellar STELLAR DUST stomach strength subdivisions supply sustain theory throw tion Uranus vegetable vital organs weak Zodiacal brain zodiacal division
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Page 7 - Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not.
Page 288 - The science of medicine is a barbarous jargon, and the effects of our medicines on the human system in the highest degree uncertain; except, indeed, that they have destroyed more lives than war, pestilence, and famine combined.
Page 288 - We do not know whether our patients recover because we give medicine or because nature cures them. Perhaps bread pills would cure as many as medicine.''—;.
Page 288 - The older physicians grow the more skeptical they become of the virtues of medicine, and the more they are disposed to trust the powers of nature, and notwilhbtanding all our boasted improvements, patients suffer as much as they did forty years ago.
Page 199 - Right forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne ; But that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 288 - Joseph M. Smith, MD, of the same school, says: "All medicines which enter the circulation poison the blood in the same manner as do the poisons that produce disease.
Page 95 - ... evident deficiencies of the basis upon which it was founded. Passing over, therefore, many minor details, we will merely point out, as matters of physiological interest, the principal defects which must always prevent the establishment of phrenology, as a science, and its application as an art. " First, though we have no reason for denying that different parts of the brain may be occupied by different intellectual faculties, there is no direct evidence which would show this to be the case. Phrenologists...
Page 25 - Jacob obtained his wives by servitude of seven years ; Samson kept his nuptials seven days, and on the seventh day he put a riddle to his wife, and he was bound with seven green withes, and seven locks of his hair were shaved off ; Nebuchadnezzar was seven years a beast ; Shadrach and his two companions in misfortune were cast into a furnace heated seven times more than it was wont. In the New Testament nearly everything occurs by sevens, and at the end of the sacred volume we read of seven churches,...
Page 287 - History of Medicine," says : " Every dose of medicine is a blind experiment.
Page 12 - ... to hear the welcome plaudit, Well done, good and faithful servant, enter into the joys of thy Lord, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.