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... an undue quantity of animal heat , and permit the unobstructed escape of the insensible perspiration > by which , though unseen , our bodies are always sur- rounded . In order to convey to my readers some idea of FOR LADIES . 21.
... an undue quantity of animal heat , and permit the unobstructed escape of the insensible perspiration > by which , though unseen , our bodies are always sur- rounded . In order to convey to my readers some idea of FOR LADIES . 21.
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... perspiration , I shall sub- join the results of a set of very interesting experiments on this subject , by the celebrated French chemist Lavoisier . " The greatest quantity of insensible perspiration , ( that from the lungs included ) ...
... perspiration , I shall sub- join the results of a set of very interesting experiments on this subject , by the celebrated French chemist Lavoisier . " The greatest quantity of insensible perspiration , ( that from the lungs included ) ...
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... perspiration ( which are continually secreted from every part ) , will in a short time forin a very disagreeable deposit . Now if we reflect on the quality of this secretion , which covers the whole surface of our bodies , and is being ...
... perspiration ( which are continually secreted from every part ) , will in a short time forin a very disagreeable deposit . Now if we reflect on the quality of this secretion , which covers the whole surface of our bodies , and is being ...
Page 39
... perspire during the night , and the eyelids , in the morning , have a bloated appearance . The urine is scanty , but generally clear , though it will occasionally deposit a pink - coloured sediment . The flesh wastes . Added to these ...
... perspire during the night , and the eyelids , in the morning , have a bloated appearance . The urine is scanty , but generally clear , though it will occasionally deposit a pink - coloured sediment . The flesh wastes . Added to these ...
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... perspiration ; I assured her , that if she suffered a day to elapse without the exercise , she must exclaim with the philo- sopher , " I have lost a day . " By these simple means a cure was effected in a few weeks . The menses may ...
... perspiration ; I assured her , that if she suffered a day to elapse without the exercise , she must exclaim with the philo- sopher , " I have lost a day . " By these simple means a cure was effected in a few weeks . The menses may ...
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Page 228 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 227 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Page 230 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side come hot from hell, Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.
Page 194 - My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears: My limbs are bow'd, though not with toil, But rusted with a vile repose, For they have been a dungeon's spoil, And mine has been the fate of those To whom the goodly earth and air Are...
Page 197 - twere vain to tell, But gaze on that of the Gazelle, It will assist thy fancy well, As large, as languishingly dark, But Soul beam'd forth in every spark...
Page 3 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Page 145 - This is altogether abandoned. The foetus is certainly, if we speak physiologically, as much a living being immediately after conception, as at any other time before delivery ; and its future progress is but the development and increase of those constituent principles which it then received.
Page 198 - ... it does so, it never grows any longer, but remains stationary. The Circassian method of treating the eye-lashes is founded on this principle. The careful mother removes, with a pair of scissors, the forked and gossamer-like points (not more) of the eye-lashes, and every time this is done their growth is renewed, and they become long, close, finely curved, and of a silky gloss. This operation of tipping may be repeated every month or six weeks. The eyelashes of infants and children are best tipped...
Page 208 - On arriving at the eurade, you find a bed prepared for you ¡ and fcarcely are you laid down before a child comes to prefs every part of your body with his delicate fingers, in order to dry you thoroughly.
Page 198 - The brilliancy of the eye and its appearance of fullness, depend of course in some degree on its form, and on the magnitude of the eye-ball ; but still more on the closeness and amplitude of the eye-lashes and the diameter of the pupil. It is the eye-lashes only...