Franklin's Contribution to Medicine: Being a Collection of Letters Written by Benjamin Franklin Bearing on the Science and Art of Medicine and Exhibiting His Social and Professional Intercourse with Various Physicians of Europe and AmericaA.T. Huntington, 1912 - Всего страниц: 89 |
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... cause . Pitt was inaccessible to Franklin ; and he never met that com- manding figure in London , Dr. Samuel Johnson , who , as is well known , had a strong prejudice against Americans , believing the revolutionary cause unjust , and it ...
... cause . Pitt was inaccessible to Franklin ; and he never met that com- manding figure in London , Dr. Samuel Johnson , who , as is well known , had a strong prejudice against Americans , believing the revolutionary cause unjust , and it ...
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... caused by repletion , and seldom attack full - feeders . " A sober diet makes a man die without pain ; it maintains the senses in vigor ; it mitigates the violence of passions and affec- tions . " It preserves the memory , it helps the ...
... caused by repletion , and seldom attack full - feeders . " A sober diet makes a man die without pain ; it maintains the senses in vigor ; it mitigates the violence of passions and affec- tions . " It preserves the memory , it helps the ...
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... cause only ; it being safer to sit in the open street , for then the Pores do all close together , and the Air does not strike so sharply against any particular Part . The Spaniards have a Proverbial Saying , " If the Wind blows on you ...
... cause only ; it being safer to sit in the open street , for then the Pores do all close together , and the Air does not strike so sharply against any particular Part . The Spaniards have a Proverbial Saying , " If the Wind blows on you ...
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... Causes and Cures of Smoky Chimneys , " Franklin discusses , in some detail , the subject of ventilation , dampness , fresh air , colds , etc. " Some are as much afraid of fresh Air as persons in the Hydrophobia are of fresh water . I ...
... Causes and Cures of Smoky Chimneys , " Franklin discusses , in some detail , the subject of ventilation , dampness , fresh air , colds , etc. " Some are as much afraid of fresh Air as persons in the Hydrophobia are of fresh water . I ...
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... Cause of the same kind that renders the Air in close Rooms , where the perspirable Matter is breathed over and over ... causing plants to grow in air which had become vitiated from human expiration . In a letter to Franklin , Priestley ...
... Cause of the same kind that renders the Air in close Rooms , where the perspirable Matter is breathed over and over ... causing plants to grow in air which had become vitiated from human expiration . In a letter to Franklin , Priestley ...
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Стр. 32 - If you eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat you." So I dined upon cod very heartily, and continued to eat with other people, returning only now and then occasionally to a vegetable diet. So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
Стр. 65 - Having heard it remarked, that drowned flies were capable of being revived by the rays of the sun, I proposed making the experiment upon these ; they were therefore exposed to the sun upon a sieve, which had been employed to strain them out of the wine.
Стр. 48 - The exercise of swimming is one of the most healthy and agreeable in the world. After having swam for an hour or two in the evening, one sleeps coolly the whole night, even during the most ardent heat of summer. Perhaps the pores being cleansed, the insensible perspiration increases and occasions this coolness.
Стр. 44 - ... afflictions were kindly intended to wean him from a world in which he was no longer fit to act the part assigned him.
Стр. 47 - During the great heats of summer there is no danger in bathing, however warm we may be, in rivers which have been thoroughly warmed by the sun; but to throw one's self into cold spring water when the body has been heated by exercise in the sun, is an imprudence which may prove fatal.
Стр. 32 - I considered, with my master Tryon, the taking every fish as a kind of unprovoked murder, since none of them had, or ever could do us any injury that might justify the slaughter.
Стр. 34 - ... flour of the barley dissolved in the water of which it was made ; that there was more flour in a pennyworth of bread ; and therefore, if he would eat that with a pint of water, it would give him more strength than a quart of beer.
Стр. 36 - Would'st thou enjoy a long life, a healthy body, and a vigorous mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful works of God? Labor in the first place to bring thy appetite into subjection to reason.
Стр. 69 - And how far the apparent temporary advantage might arise from the exercise in the patient's journey, and coming daily to my house, or from the spirits given by the hope of success, enabling them to exert more strength in moving their limbs, I will not pretend to say.
Стр. 33 - Water-American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese, a pint between breakfast and dinner, a pint at dinner, a pint in the afternoon about six o'clock, and another when he had done his day's work.