Advice to mothersLongman & Company, 1843 - 160 pages |
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Advice to Mothers allowed aperient aperient medicine applied approve artificial food attended better blood boiled bowels bread castor oil cause chest child chlorosis clothes comfortably convulsions costive cough danger delicate dentition diet digestion dinner disease disorder dose drachms eruption exercise female flannel flatulence Florence flask frequently fresh Fuller's earth gathered breast give given gradually gruel gums hour improper inflammation labour lancing lump sugar lungs magnesia means measles meat mild mild ale milk miscarriage navel string necessary new-born infant night and morning nipple nourishment open air pains patient period poultice powdered practice pregnancy prevent produce puddings purgative quantity Remarks rhubarb scarlet fever sickness simple syrup skin sleep smallpox soon stomach strong suckle their infants suffer sweet oil symptoms taken teat teeth tion usually vaccination violent warm bath warm water washed weaken weaned weather wet nurse wine womb youth
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Page 122 - ... mens sana in corpore sano" (a sound mind in a sound body).
Page 195 - Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as must impress the reader with the liveliest regret, that so short a period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume.
Page 195 - self destroyed her favourite son ! Yes ! she too much indulged thy fond pursuit, She sowed the seeds, but death has reaped the fruit. 'Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low.
Page 195 - UNHAPPY White * ! while life was in its spring, And thy young Muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When Science...
Page 195 - So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 58 - The nature of his services to his fellow-creatures had been the subject of conversation. fl do not marvel,' he observed, that men are not grateful to me ; but I am surprised that they do not feel gratitude to God for making me a medium of good.
Page 195 - Unhappy White !* while life was in its spring, And thy young muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler swept that soaring lyre away, Which else had sounded an immortal lay. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When Science...
Page 116 - The truth of it is, I look upon a sound imagination as the greatest blessing of life, next to a clear judgment and a good conscience. In the mean time, since there are very few whose minds are not more or less subject to these dreadful thoughts and apprehensions, we ought to arm ourselves against them by the dictates of reason and religion, ' to pull the old woman out of our hearts...
Page 115 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Page 85 - ... cry, and not the cause, aside; She gave her powerful sweet without remorse The sleeping cordial — she had tried its force, Repeating oft: the infant, freed from pain, Rejected food, but took the dose again, Sinking to sleep; while she her joy...