Consumption: its causes, prevention, and cureHippolyte Bailliere, 1855 - 172 pages |
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Page 67 - Hunter's pithy remark is quoted, "some physiologists will have it, that the stomach is a mill, others, that it is a fermenting vat, others, again, that it is a stew-pan; but, in my view of the matter, it is neither a mill, a fermenting vat nor a stew-pan ; but a stomach, gentlemen, a stomach.
Page 73 - THE most improper things we commit in the conduct of our lives, we are led into by the force of fashion. Instances might be given, in which a prevailing custom makes us act against the rules of nature, law, and common sense...
Page 50 - he loved neither reading nor writing." " How I envy you !" he exclaimed to Fox, whom he found one day, after his fall, reading in the library at Houghton. His splendid success in life, notwithstanding his want of learning, may tend to show what is too commonly forgotten in modern plans of education, — that it is of far more importance to have the mind well disciplined than richly stored — strong rather than full.
Page 87 - Inattention to this advice, be assured, will bring diseases on yourselves, and engender among you typhus fever, which is only another name for putrid fever, which will carry off your wives and children. Let me again repeat my serious advice — open your windows to let in the fresh air, at least once in the day.
Page 37 - I know the effect which ten hours' labour had upon myself; I who had the attention of parents better able than those of my companions to allow me extraordinary occasional indulgence. And he knows very little of human nature who does not know, that, to a child, diversion is so essential, that it will undergo even exhaustion in its amusements. I protest, therefore, against the reasoning, that, because a child is not brought so low in spirit as to be incapable of enjoying the diversions of a child,...
Page 37 - I w-ell know, too, from my own experience, that the labour now undergone in the factories, is much greater than it used to be, owing to the greater attention and activity required by the greatly increased speed which is given to the machinery that the children have to attend to, when we compare it with what it was thirty or forty years ago ; and, therefore, I fully agree with the government Commissioners, that a restriction to ten hours per day is not a sufficient protection to children.'— ibid.
Page 36 - I began to work in the mill, the hours of labour at our works did not exceed ten in the day, winter and summer, and even with the labour of those hours, I shall never forget the fatigue I often felt before the day ended, and the anxiety of us all to be relieved from the unvarying and irksome toil we had gone through before we could obtain relief by such play and amusements as we resorted to when liberated from our work. I allude to this fact, because it is not uncommon for persons to infer, that,...
Page 91 - He demanded of Hunter what he meant. ' Why,' said Hunter, ' do you know what is the temperature of a hen with her callow brood ? Because if you don't, I'll tell you.
Page 87 - I fear some of you do not understand how health is to be maintained in vigour. This, then, depends upon your breathing an uncontaminated air, for the purity of the air becomes destroyed where many are collected together ; the effluvia from the body corrupts it.
Page 86 - The celebrated Dr. Darwin was so impressed with a conviction of the necessity of good air, that, being very popular in the town of Derby, once on a market day he mounted a tub, and thus addressed the listening crowd : '* Ye men of Derby, fellow-citizens, attend to me ! I know you to be ingenious and industrious mechanics.