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Hints and Helps to Health and Happiness; Or Long Life and Little Physic

Hints and Helps to Health and Happiness; Or Long Life and Little Physic

Ross, Joel H.

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ISBN10: 1150447230
ISBN13: 9781150447235
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...hand. Dr. W. assured her that she might make the trial without apprehending any serious consequences. After a time, she again presented herself, and, smiling, informing him that she had used this remedy, and no other, and on examining the part, he found the tumor had disappeared. A LITTLE DEFICIENT. Well, doctor, we never for a moment doubted your veracity; and as to your surgical skill, almost all the civilized world knows that it is not surpassed. Still, we cannot help calling to mind that Solomon says, A living dog, is bettor than a dead lion. So we can hardly avoid the conclusion that the hand of a living surgeon ought to be more successful in removing tumors from a living body, than a hand from the grave yard. Such, we hope will be the good fortune in future, of all those who practice the healing art, lest some novel practicioner should take the pa-m, by advising the sick to consult ghosts, instead of doctors! With the opposite effect, or the unhappy influence of great mental depression, almost every one is familiar. Many examples might be given, but it is considered unecessary. VENTILATION. Pure air, is so indispensable to health, that no wonder there are so many pale, sickly, ghastly, faces; flabby, crooked, rickety bodies; crazy, dreamy, fidgety intellects; wretched, crippled, ruined constitutions. When we see how people live, both in the lower and higher classes; we naturally conclude that doctors, apothecaries, and undertakers, will not be likely to complain for want of business. Some smother themselves by day, and others by night. Many when they retire, shut up their lodging-rooms as they did in old times to shut out the witches, lest they enter through the cracks. But modern witches are far more likely to enter from want of cra...

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