Public Aspects of Medicine
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Body-snatchingBody-snatchingTHE following pages are reprinted, with some modification, from the third Number of the Westminster Review. They treat of a subject on which it is of great importance that the public should be well informed, and it is in order to facilitate the circulation...
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The Frugal Life: A ParadoxThe Frugal Life: A ParadoxTHE friendship of Nicholas Ferrar, the head of the remarkable household at Little Gidding, and of the saintly George Herbert, is a pleasant episode of seventeenth century history. One of its results was the appearance at Cambridge in 1634 of...
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Hand-book of Sanitary Information for HouseholdersHand-book of Sanitary Information for Householders - Containing facts and suggestions about ventilation, drainage, care of contageous diseases, disinfection, food, and water. With appendices on disinfectants and plumbers' materials.The preparation of this hand-book was suggested by persistent questioning about the matters it contains. Its...
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A History of Epidemic PestilencesA History of Epidemic Pestilences - From the Earliest Ages, 1495 Years Before the Birth of our Saviour to 1848: With Researches into Their Nature, Causes, and ProphylaxisFeeling it to be incumbent on every one to contribute to the good of his fellow-men, in...
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The Cholera: the claims of the poor upon the richThe Cholera: the claims of the poor upon the richIn 1831 the Asiatic Cholera first made its appearance in this country. It spread consternation wherever it went. This pestilence, however, had its mission. It had previously swept over the fairest portions of the earth,...
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Cholera and the Water Supply in the South Districts of London in 1854Cholera and the Water Supply in the South Districts of London in 18541In the summer of 1849, I published certain conclusions at which I have arrived with regard to Asiatic cholera, and the facts and reasonings which had led to them. The following is...
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The Minor Horrors of WarThe Minor Horrors of WarThe contents of this little book hardly justify its title. There are whole ranges of Minor Horrors of War left untouched in the following chapters. The minor poets, the pamphlets of the professors, the people who write to the papers...
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Good Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New HygieneGood Health and How We Won It, With an Account of the New HygieneTen years ago, when I was a student at college, I fell a victim to a new and fashionable ailment called la grippe. I recollect the date very well, because it...
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Observation on the Use and Abuse of Mercury, and on the Precautions Necessary in Its EmploymentObservation on the Use and Abuse of Mercury, and on the Precautions Necessary in Its EmploymentThe following Observations are addressed to the Public, with a view, on the one hand, to do away certain erroneous prepositions respecting the effects of Mercury, which impede the...
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An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at VeniceAn Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice - By the Magistrate of the Office of Health, for the Preservation of Publick HealthThe Office of Health is furnished with such ample Power and Authority, as makes it at once useful and...
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Treatise on PoisonsTreatise on Poisons - In relation to medical jurisprudence, physiology, and the practice of physicThe author regrets that circumstances beyond his control have delayed the re-appearance of the present work beyond the period at which it was called for by the favourable reception of...
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On criminal abortion in AmericaOn criminal abortion in AmericaAnd let the legislator and moralist look to it; for as sure as there is in any nation a hidden tampering with infant life, whether frequent or occasional, systematic or accidental, so sure will the chastisement of the Almighty fall...
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Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain With AppendicesReport to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State For the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on an Inquiry Into the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain; With AppendicesOn the 14th May, 1838, the Poor Law Commissioners presented to Lord...
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Old Age DeferredOld Age Deferred - The causes of old age and its postponement by hygienic and therapeutic measuresWhoever takes up this book with the idea that the aged can be transformed into sprightly adolescents will be disappointed. A work based entirely on evidence of a...
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La simulación en la lucha por la vidaLa simulación en la lucha por la vidaCiertas reglas de acentuacin ortogrfica del castellano cuando la presente edicin de esta obra fue publicada, en 1917, eran diferentes a las existentes cuando se realiz la transcripcin. Palabras como vi, fu, di, por ejemplo, en esa...
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Soil and Water Pollution : Presented to the American Public Health Association at New Orleans, Dec. 1880Soil and Water Pollution : Presented to the American Public Health Association at New Orleans, Dec. 1880There is no subject of greater interest to the people than that of health and the best means of obtaining it. Plenty of wholesome food, good air and...
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The Epidemics of the Middle AgesThe Epidemics of the Middle AgesThe Council of the Sydenham Society having deemed Heckers three treatises on different Epidemics occurring in the Middle Ages worthy of being collected into a volume, and laid before its members in an English dress, I have felt much...
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Luxurious BathingLuxurious Bathing Treatises and disquisitions sufficient to form a library of no inconsiderable dimensions have been written during the last three centuries on the subject of baths: boiling, freezing, variously medicatedincluding tar-water, steam, and spray; milk, whey, broth, mud, sand, and even earth-bathsin which...
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Water pollution—WellsWater pollution—Wellsin many a sequestered nook, where the beauty of the scene gave to the soul its grandest appreciation of natures handiwork; but the poets song and the painters canvas are too often the false airs and the tinsel drapery of Momusfun and folly....
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Sanitation of Mofussil BazaarsSanitation of Mofussil BazaarsThe First Edition of this work was favourably received and, being entirely disposed of within five months of its issue, indicates that a want was met. The Manual has been patronised by the Government of India, the Secretary of State for...
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