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... Period . We pause and look around . A radiate from the Cambrian attracts our attention . He is the first type of animal life , struggling up from the vegeta- ble , partaking as much of the nature of the latter as of the former . We look ...
... Period . We pause and look around . A radiate from the Cambrian attracts our attention . He is the first type of animal life , struggling up from the vegeta- ble , partaking as much of the nature of the latter as of the former . We look ...
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... Period , in the Age of Fishes , where animal life is taking on higher conditions . How marked the change from the Silurian ! As we found the mollusk removed farther from the vegetable than the radiate , so we find the fishes developed ...
... Period , in the Age of Fishes , where animal life is taking on higher conditions . How marked the change from the Silurian ! As we found the mollusk removed farther from the vegetable than the radiate , so we find the fishes developed ...
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... period of probation . All save the oldest have broken your law , and now , with your " anger kindled , " your " fierce wrath aroused , " you summon them , " with the great sound of a trumpet , " to appear before the judgment seat for ...
... period of probation . All save the oldest have broken your law , and now , with your " anger kindled , " your " fierce wrath aroused , " you summon them , " with the great sound of a trumpet , " to appear before the judgment seat for ...
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... period of primal gestation , having become a mother only a few weeks prior to the second conception . 3. During this year both were experiencing the cares and responsibilities of sovereignty , and although this was a weak adversary ...
... period of primal gestation , having become a mother only a few weeks prior to the second conception . 3. During this year both were experiencing the cares and responsibilities of sovereignty , and although this was a weak adversary ...
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... period of gestation , less than three months had elapsed since the birth of her first - born , when she conceived a second time . It is impossible that either her physical or nervous system should have returned to normal conditions ...
... period of gestation , less than three months had elapsed since the birth of her first - born , when she conceived a second time . It is impossible that either her physical or nervous system should have returned to normal conditions ...
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Page 2 - That changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees : Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 128 - The present practice of medicine is a reproach to the name of Science, while its professors give evidence of an almost total ignorance of the nature and proper treatment of disease. Nine times out of ten, our miscalled remedies are absolutely injurious to our patients, suffering under diseases of whose real character and cause we are most culpably ignorant.
Page 184 - A spectre is concealed on a silver or glassy surface, until, by our necromancy, we make it come forth into the visible world. Upon the walls of our most private apartments, where we think the eye of intrusion is altogether shut out, and our retirement can never be profaned, there exist the vestiges of all our acts, silhouettes of whatever we have done.
Page 128 - Assuredly the uncertain and most unsatisfactory art that we call medical science, is no science at all, but a jumble of inconsistent opinions; of conclusions hastily and often incorrectly drawn; of facts misunderstood or perverted; of comparisons without analogy; of hypotheses without reason, and theories not only useless, but dangerous.
Page 129 - my conscientious opinion, founded on long observation and reflection, that if there was not a single physician, surgeon, apothecary, man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug on the face of the earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality than now obtains.
Page 27 - Be not deceived ; God is not mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Page 190 - When my first four children were born I suffered very little. I then made up my mind that it was totally unnecessary for me to suffer at all; so I dressed lightly, walked every day, lived as much as possible in the open air, ate no condiments or spices, kept quiet, listened to music, looked at pictures, and took proper care of myself.
Page 126 - All of our curative agents are poisons, and as a consequence, every dose diminishes the patient's vitality." Prof. 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 14 - For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
Page 134 - We can hardly refuse our assent to the observations of the late Sir Gilbert Blane, that in many cases patients get well in spite of the means employed ; and sometimes when the practitioner fancies he has made a great cure, we may fairly assume the patient to have had a happy escape.