item: #1 of 75 id: 11962 author: Beers, Clifford Whittingham title: A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography date: None words: 65447 flesch: 70 summary: Occasionally, however, a professor, in justice to himself and to the other students, would insist that I recite, and at such times I managed to make enough of a recitation to hold my place in the class. I entered the Tax Office with the intention of staying only until such time as I might secure a position in New York. keywords: assistant; attendant; bed; book; brother; business; condition; course; day; days; desire; doctor; fact; friends; good; home; hospital; hours; insane; institution; left; letter; life; man; mind; months; morning; new; night; patients; physician; read; reason; relatives; room; state; thought; time; treatment; ward; way; weeks; work; world; years cache: 11962.txt plain text: 11962.txt item: #2 of 75 id: 12699 author: None title: The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy date: None words: 109007 flesch: 70 summary: Barrenness makes women look young, because they are free from those pains and sorrows which other women are accustomed to. Yet they have not the full perfection of health which other women enjoy, because they are not rightly purged of the menstruous blood and superfluous seed, which are the principal cause of most uterine diseases. keywords: belly; birth; blood; body; brain; cause; chapter; child; children; cold; conception; doth; drachm; face; feet; good; great; hair; half; hand; hath; head; heat; hot; humours; infant; labour; like; matter; men; midwife; milk; month; mother; nature; navel; neck; oil; ounce; pains; parts; person; place; reason; seed; stomach; things; time; veins; water; white; wine; woman; womb cache: 12699.txt plain text: 12699.txt item: #3 of 75 id: 13197 author: Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir) title: Wear and Tear; Or, Hints for the Overworked date: None words: 14947 flesch: 59 summary: While parents are clearly to blame for endangering health in the ways indicated, it may be a question whether the work required to be done in school should not be regulated accordingly; whether, in designating the studies to be taken, and in assigning lessons, there should not be taken into consideration all the circumstances of the pupil's life which can be conveniently ascertained, even though those circumstances are most unfavorable to school work and are brought about mainly through the ignorance or folly of parents. In the opinion of this teacher, nervousness and sleeplessness are somewhat due to studies and in-door social amusements in addition to regular school work; but chiefly to ignorance in the home as to the simplest rules of healthy living. keywords: brain; business; causes; class; day; girls; health; labor; life; man; men; school; system; time; women; work; years cache: 13197.txt plain text: 13197.txt item: #4 of 75 id: 13332 author: Benson, Luther title: Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography date: None words: 51041 flesch: 75 summary: Sometimes she goes to the portrait of your boyish face and looks at it; at other times she takes down some worn and faded garment, that you were wont to wear in those beautiful days of the past, and recalls how you looked when you wore it; then she goes to the room where you used to sleep and looks at the cradle in which she so often rocked you to sleep, and, after all is seen, she returns to her chair--the old easy chair--and waits to hear tidings of you. At such times I could distinctly remember the names and features of all the persons who dwelt in the vicinity of my father's house, although many of them died long ago or passed away from the neighborhood. keywords: alcohol; appetite; body; chapter; condition; day; days; dead; death; drink; drinking; face; father; friends; god; heart; hell; home; house; law; lecture; life; liquor; man; men; mother; night; place; power; room; school; sober; soul; thought; time; way; whisky; years cache: 13332.txt plain text: 13332.txt item: #5 of 75 id: 14196 author: Myerson, Abraham title: The Nervous Housewife date: None words: 51259 flesch: 66 summary: To-day desires are awakened that cannot be fulfilled; she sees other women buying what she can only long for, and an active discontent with her lot appears. At least for many women it gets to be a habit to stay in. keywords: cases; children; course; day; desire; emotion; fact; family; fear; feeling; good; home; household; housewife; human; husband; importance; law; life; love; marriage; married; matter; men; mind; mother; nature; need; nervousness; new; people; place; power; purpose; sex; situation; social; symptoms; things; time; type; way; woman; work; world cache: 14196.txt plain text: 14196.txt item: #6 of 75 id: 14743 author: Blythe, Samuel G. (Samuel George) title: The Fun of Getting Thin: How to Be Happy and Reduce the Waist Line date: None words: 7099 flesch: 84 summary: If there are fat men and fat women who are fat for the same reasons I was fat I suppose they can get thin the way I got thin. I didn't show any bay window, as most fat men do. keywords: exercise; fat; food; man; person; pounds; time; way cache: 14743.txt plain text: 14743.txt item: #7 of 75 id: 14901 author: Briggs, Isaac George title: Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia: Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment date: None words: 38205 flesch: 66 summary: Petit mal_ is no more hopeful than _grand mal_; less so in cases with severe giddiness; in all cases, the better the physical condition and digestive powers of the patient, the brighter the outlook. Porridge is admirable, but many children dislike it. keywords: age; attacks; bed; blood; body; brain; cases; cause; cent; chapter; character; child; children; consciousness; control; convulsions; day; disease; doctor; epilepsy; epileptic; fit; food; good; hysteria; life; mal; man; medicines; mind; neurasthenia; neuropaths; patient; people; relation; self; sleep; stomach; suggestion; symptoms; time; treatment; victim; water; way; work cache: 14901.txt plain text: 14901.txt item: #8 of 75 id: 14980 author: Jackson, Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) title: Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy date: None words: 93223 flesch: 67 summary: To still other people nervous trouble means fear,--just terrible fear without object or meaning or reason (anxiety neuroses); or a definite fear of some harmless object (phobia); or a strange, persistent, recurrent idea, quite foreign to the personality and beyond the reach of reason (obsession); or an insistent desire to perform some absurd act (compulsion); or perhaps, a deadly and pall-like depression (the blues). Sometimes, in the hands of a man like Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, results seem good, until we realize that the same measures are ineffective when tried by other men, and that, after all, what has counted most has been the personality of the physician rather than his physical treatment. keywords: body; cases; cause; child; consciousness; day; desire; education; emotion; energy; fact; fatigue; fear; feeling; food; footnote; force; good; habit; human; idea; instinct; kind; life; like; love; man; matter; means; mind; mother; nature; nerves; neurosis; new; pain; patient; people; person; personality; power; process; psycho; real; self; sense; sex; sleep; stomach; subconscious; suggestion; symptoms; things; thought; time; trouble; way; woman; work; years cache: 14980.txt plain text: 14980.txt item: #9 of 75 id: 15365 author: None title: A Psychiatric Milestone: Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 date: None words: 42915 flesch: 52 summary: York congratulates New York upon its wonderful prosperity, and we gladly recognize its development in the practice of psychiatry fully corresponds with its development in other directions. ILLUSTRATIONS New York Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, 1808 _ keywords: asylum; bloomingdale; bloomingdale hospital; committee; day; development; diseases; disorders; eddy; experience; facts; form; general; george; governors; hospital; human; importance; insane; institution; knowledge; life; m.d; man; medical; medicine; mind; miss; mrs; n.y; neuroses; new york; patients; physician; plains; problems; psychiatry; psychoses; social; society; state; study; thomas; time; treatment; view; white; white plains; william; work; world; years; york city; york hospital cache: 15365.txt plain text: 15365.txt item: #10 of 75 id: 16230 author: Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir) title: Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria date: None words: 46751 flesch: 64 summary: There are still other cases in which mischievous tendencies to repose, to endless tire, to hysterical symptoms, and to emotional displays have grown out of defects of nutrition so distinct that no man ought to think for these persons of mere exertion as a sole means of cure. In many such cases I allow daily a moderate amount of beef- or chicken- or oyster-soup,--more as a relief to the unpleasantness of a milk diet than for any other reason. keywords: bed; blood; care; cases; daily; day; diet; disease; electricity; exercise; fat; flesh; food; gain; general; good; hour; loss; massage; means; milk; months; muscles; pains; patient; people; rest; time; treatment; use; weight; women; years cache: 16230.txt plain text: 16230.txt item: #11 of 75 id: 1739 author: Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) title: The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania date: None words: 43659 flesch: 49 summary: Their disease received from it, as it had at other times from other extraordinary customs, a peculiar direction; so that, whether bitten by the tarantula or not, they felt compelled to participate in the dances of those affected, and to make their appearance at this popular festival, where they had an opportunity of triumphantly exhibiting their sufferings. Cairo lost daily, when the plague was raging with its greatest violence, from 10,000 to 15,000; being as many as, in modern times, great plagues have carried off during their whole course. keywords: account; ages; black; blood; body; century; contagion; country; dance; dancers; dancing; day; days; death; disease; disorder; europe; form; fourteenth; inhabitants; kind; malady; manner; means; men; middle; music; nature; patients; people; period; place; plague; power; state; tarantula; time; vitus; women; year cache: 1739.txt plain text: 1739.txt item: #12 of 75 id: 17439 author: Ritter, Thomas Jefferson title: Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada date: None words: 7716 flesch: 57 summary: Skin, Inflammation of the 62 Skin, Inflammation of the (Herb Remedies) 412 Skinner's Dandruff Cure 485 Sleep 603 Sleeplessness 299 Sleeplessness (Herb Remedies} 426, 430, 439 Smallpox, Diagnosis of 4 Smallpox 201 Causes 201 Symptoms 201 Eruptions 201 Confluent Form 201 Varioloid 201 Treatment 202 Diet 202 Nursing 202 General Rule for Disinfection 203 Hands, Body, etc 203 Vaccination and Re-vaccination and its Prevention of Smallpox 203 A Good Time to be Vaccinated 203 Why Vaccinate? Onions and Salt for 681 Snake Bite (Herb Remedies) 434 Soda (Medical Use) 669 Salt Water Bath, Tonic Action 630 Softening of the Brain 298 Soft Diet 644 Soothing Syrup, Overdose of 622 Sore Eyes (Rare Prescription) 470, 549 Mothers' Remedies (Unclassified) 681 1. keywords: baby; causes; etiquette; good; herb; herb remedies; home; inflammation; mothers; physicians; quotation; remedies; remedy; symptoms; treatment; tuberculosis; water; wedding; womb cache: 17439.txt plain text: 17439.txt item: #13 of 75 id: 18324 author: Stokes, John H. (John Hinchman) title: The Third Great Plague A Discussion of Syphilis for Everyday People date: None words: 53427 flesch: 53 summary: For such diseases we are said to have a specific method of treatment. We have the precedents of the control of tuberculosis, smallpox, malaria, and yellow fever to guide us, to say nothing of a practical system against sexual disease already in operation in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. keywords: blood; body; cases; chancre; child; children; control; course; cure; disease; effect; germs; health; hereditary; infection; knowledge; late; life; marriage; means; mercury; patient; person; physician; public; risk; salvarsan; stage; syphilis; syphilis syphilis; syphilitic; test; time; treatment; venereal; years cache: 18324.txt plain text: 18324.txt item: #14 of 75 id: 18398 author: Pengilly, Mary Huestis title: Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum date: None words: 9580 flesch: 84 summary: My prayers for them have always been, that they might be a benefit to their fellows; that they grow to be good men; to be able to fill their places in the world as useful members of society, not living entirely for themselves, but for the good of others, an honor to themselves and a blessing to the world. How unkind Mrs. Mills is today; does she think this sort of treatment is for the good of our health? keywords: day; good; home; look; mills; mrs; poor; room; time cache: 18398.txt plain text: 18398.txt item: #15 of 75 id: 18935 author: None title: Vanity, All Is Vanity: A Lecture on Tobacco and its effects date: None words: 6075 flesch: 78 summary: Drink and | | smoke. Every hindrance prevents the growth and | | development of the mind. keywords: ------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |; = =; body; man; mind; nature; poison; | +; | system; | tobacco; | | cache: 18935.txt plain text: 18935.txt item: #16 of 75 id: 19261 author: Jackson, Chevalier title: Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery date: None words: 79227 flesch: 60 summary: If aneurysm is present and esophagoscopy is necessary, as it always is in foreign body cases, to be fore-warned is to be forearmed. ROENTGENRAY STUDY IN FOREIGN BODY CASES _ keywords: air; anesthesia; author; bodies; body; body cases; bronchial; bronchoscope; bronchus; cannula; cases; cause; chapter; children; cicatricial; endoscopic; esophageal; esophagoscope; esophagus; fig; food; forceps; foreign; general; head; laryngeal; laryngoscope; larynx; left; lumen; method; mouth; mucosa; object; patient; pin; point; position; pressure; removal; right; secretions; size; stenosis; stomach; time; tissue; trachea; tracheotomy; treatment; tube; wall cache: 19261.txt plain text: 19261.txt item: #17 of 75 id: 19667 author: Mussey, R. D. (Reuben Dimond) title: An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health date: None words: 10924 flesch: 65 summary: It was returning to the gratification of a depraved appetite in the use of tobacco; and I have no hesitancy in declaring it as my opinion, that could the causes of the many acts of suicide, committed in the United States, be investigated, it would be found, that many instances were owing to the effects of _tobacco_ upon the nervous system. The very general habit of smoking tobacco, existing among children and youth as well as adults, it has been supposed, and not without reason, might explain this great mortality. keywords: animal; appetite; good; habit; health; life; minutes; oil; smoke; smoking; stomach; time; tobacco; use; years cache: 19667.txt plain text: 19667.txt item: #18 of 75 id: 19762 author: Hinkle, Thomas C. (Thomas Clark) title: How to Eat: A Cure for "Nerves" date: None words: 19249 flesch: 82 summary: For as a result of this habit many nervous people have dilated stomachs. And it is odd but quite true that nervous people crave the very things that hurt them most. keywords: children; cure; day; diet; eating; exercise; food; good; life; man; nerves; people; right; thing; time; years cache: 19762.txt plain text: 19762.txt item: #19 of 75 id: 21560 author: Kirk, John title: Papers on Health date: None words: 122890 flesch: 78 summary: It may often be checked by plunging the patient's hands into _cold_ water. Elbow Joint.--See Armpit Swelling and Bone. Enemas, Cold Water.--Prejudice often exists against _cold_ treatment of any kind, but it must be overcome, unless the sick would lose some of the most precious means of relief which we possess. keywords: acid; action; air; bed; blood; body; cases; cause; child; children; cold; cooling; cure; day; diet; disease; dry; effect; feet; fomentation; food; good; half; head; health; heat; hot; hour; lather; means; milk; minutes; nerves; night; oil; olive; pain; patient; poultice; rest; rubbing; skin; soap; spine; stomach; system; time; treatment; trouble; use; vinegar; water; way; work cache: 21560.txt plain text: 21560.txt item: #20 of 75 id: 21907 author: Makellar, Archibald title: An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners date: None words: 25039 flesch: 54 summary: He says, I have had several opportunities of substantiating the carbonaceous matter in a state of extraordinary accumulation in black lungs supplied by my medical friends. He expectorated bloody tough mucus without any tinge of black matter. keywords: air; black; blood; bronchial; carbon; case; chest; coal; cough; dark; disease; fluid; glands; lobe; lungs; matter; pulmonary; substance; time; years cache: 21907.txt plain text: 21907.txt item: #21 of 75 id: 21965 author: Hutchinson, Woods title: Preventable Diseases date: None words: 120792 flesch: 56 summary: In the Boer War it caused nearly six thousand deaths as compared with seven thousand five hundred from wounds in battle, while other diseases caused five thousand more. This strange after-effect upon the nervous system, which was first clearly noticed in diphtheria and syphilis, has now been found to occur in lesser degree in a large number of our infectious diseases, so that many of our most serious paralyses and other diseases of the nervous system are now traceable to such causes. keywords: air; attack; bacilli; bacillus; blood; body; brain; cancer; cases; cause; cells; cent; children; civilization; cold; conditions; course; cure; danger; day; days; death; degree; diphtheria; disease; eye; face; fact; family; fever; food; form; germs; good; group; half; hand; headache; health; heart; human; individual; infection; influence; instance; life; like; matter; means; mouth; nature; nerves; new; number; open; pain; patient; percentage; pneumonia; point; power; present; process; rate; rest; rheumatism; room; skin; spread; symptoms; system; thing; throat; time; tissues; treatment; tuberculosis; typhoid; water; way; wound; years cache: 21965.txt plain text: 21965.txt item: #22 of 75 id: 23468 author: Kent, John title: Observations on the Causes, Symptoms, and Nature of Scrofula or King's Evil, Scurvy, and Cancer With Cases Illustrative of a Peculiar Mode of Treatment date: None words: 10241 flesch: 56 summary: In this state he applied to J. Kent, Stanton, under whose treatment Mr. Welham perfectly recovered. 2. In consequence of the benefit which Mr. Welham had received from the treatment adopted by J. Kent, he placed his son Joseph under his care. keywords: age; cases; disease; j. kent; kent; scrofula; suffolk; time; treatment; years cache: 23468.txt plain text: 23468.txt item: #23 of 75 id: 26008 author: Munde, Charles title: Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms date: None words: 29944 flesch: 68 summary: One of the obstacles is the _want of a sufficient quantity of water_ in some houses, and the difficulty of procuring it. During convalescence, meat may be permitted to such patients as have been accustomed to eat it, and, in general, the patients may be allowed to gradually resume their former diet (provided it were a healthy one), with some restriction in regard to quantity. keywords: air; bath; body; cases; day; disease; fever; heat; homoeopathic; pack; patient; physicians; rash; reaction; room; scarlatina; sheet; symptoms; throat; time; treatment; water; wet cache: 26008.txt plain text: 26008.txt item: #24 of 75 id: 26058 author: Hill, Lewis Webb title: The Starvation Treatment of Diabetes date: None words: 19502 flesch: 88 summary: In carrying out the Allen treatment the physician must think in grams of carbohydrate and proteid--it is not enough simply to cut down the supply of starchy foods; _he must know approximately how much carbohydrate and proteid his patient is getting each day_. Multiply this by the number of c.c. n/10 sodic hydrate used in the last titration; this gives the number of grams of ammonia in 25 c.c. urine. keywords: butter; cream; day; diet; egg; fat; grams; grams calories; grams carbohydrate; grams grams; h. tbsp; protein; salt; slice; sugar; tbsp; tea; water cache: 26058.txt plain text: 26058.txt item: #25 of 75 id: 26365 author: Jamison, Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) title: Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis date: None words: 43734 flesch: 57 summary: The turning point in the ascending colon affords another ready hindrance to the upward and onward movement of this mass; and the gases and ancient feces beyond the turn conduce to further sluggish peristalsis, bringing about more or less obstruction and reflex irritation of the remaining length of intestinal canal. The phenomenon of vicarious excretion may occur through the kidneys, lungs, skin, throat, nose, vagina, or uterus, thus keeping up chronic diseases and discharges that would not exist but for the chronic constipation or even for _incomplete action of the bowels each day_. keywords: anus; auto; blood; body; bowels; canal; cases; cause; chapter; chronic; colon; condition; constipation; day; diarrhea; disease; enema; feces; food; habit; indigestion; infection; inflammation; liver; man; membrane; poisons; portion; proctitis; rectum; sigmoid; stomach; symptoms; system; time; tissue; treatment; use; water; years cache: 26365.txt plain text: 26365.txt item: #26 of 75 id: 27943 author: None title: The Home Medical Library, Volume 1 (of 6) date: None words: 62186 flesch: 67 summary: RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED 27 Reviving the Patient--How to Expel Water from the Stomach and Chest--Instructions for Producing Respiration--When Several Workers are at Hand--When One must Work Alone--How to Save a Drowning Person. II. PART II I. CONTAGIOUS MALADIES 191 Symptoms and Treatment of Scarlet Fever--Diagnosis--Duration of Contagion--Difference Between True and German Measles--Smallpox--Cure a Matter of Good Nursing--Chickenpox. II. keywords: = =; aid; arm; assistant; bandage; bleeding; blood; body; bone; cases; children; cold; cotton; days; disease; elbow; fever; fig; food; fracture; half; hand; head; hot; hours; iii; joint; knee; leg; limb; malaria; measles; mouth; pain; parts; patient; place; rule; skin; swelling; symptoms; time; treatment; typhoid; use; vomiting; water; wound cache: 27943.txt plain text: 27943.txt item: #27 of 75 id: 27944 author: None title: The Home Medical Library, Volume 2 (of 6) date: None words: 62010 flesch: 61 summary: In this there may never be any attacks of pain or inflammation affecting the joints, but eczema and other skin diseases; tonsilitis, neuralgia, indigestion and biliousness, lumbago and other muscular pains, sick headache, bronchitis, disease of heart and kidneys, with a tendency to apoplexy, dark-colored urine, stone in the bladder, and a hot, itching sensation in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, all give evidence of the gouty constitution. Of course the only exact way of learning the nature of a chest trouble is thorough, careful examination by a physician, for cough, fever, rapid breathing and rapid pulse occur in many other diseases besides bronchitis, particularly pneumonia. keywords: = =; air; blood; body; cases; cause; children; cold; condition; cure; daily; days; disease; ear; eye; eyes; fever; form; general; germs; grains; headache; hours; inflammation; insane; irritation; life; little; medical; membrane; middle; mouth; night; nose; oil; pain; parts; patient; physician; pus; skin; solution; sore; swelling; symptoms; throat; time; treatment; trouble; use; water cache: 27944.txt plain text: 27944.txt item: #28 of 75 id: 27947 author: None title: The Home Medical Library, Volume 5 (of 6) date: None words: 49771 flesch: 63 summary: Water pipes forming a distribution system should always be chosen generous in diameter, in order to avoid undue loss of pressure by friction. _Lead Pipe_ is used for all branch waste pipes and short lengths of water pipes. keywords: = =; air; bacteria; cent; color; copper; country; diameter; drain; feet; fig; fresh; gas; good; ground water; health; heat; house; illustration; inches; iron; lead; material; matter; means; method; mosquito; new; odor; pipes; places; plumbing; pressure; rain water; room; sewage; sewer; soil; solution; surface; system; temperature; trap; ventilation; waste; waste water; water; water level; water supply; wells; white; york cache: 27947.txt plain text: 27947.txt item: #29 of 75 id: 28147 author: Fergusson, William title: Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. date: None words: 44476 flesch: 38 summary: in many diseases is far from being natural and obvious to the mind; for, since the time that contagious properties have been generally allowed to belong to certain diseases, there has been a strong disposition to consider this as the most natural and obvious mode of explaining the spreading of other diseases. A person sees evidence of the transmission, _mediate_ as well as _immediate_, of small-pox, from one person to another; and, in other diseases, the origin of which may be involved in obscurity, he is greatly prone to assign a similar cause which may seem to reconcile things so satisfactorily to his mind. keywords: atmosphere; case; cholera; cholera morbus; contagion; country; course; disease; epidemic; evidence; fever; footnote; gentleman; health; hospital; india; letter; macmichael; medical; men; nature; page; people; person; place; point; public; quarantine; question; reports; sick; subject; sunderland; time cache: 28147.txt plain text: 28147.txt item: #30 of 75 id: 28177 author: Doane, Rennie Wilbur title: Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases date: None words: 55437 flesch: 75 summary: 71--Salivary glands of _Culex_ at right. I PAGE PARASITISM AND DISEASE 1 Definition of a parasite, 1; examples among various animals, 2; _Parasitism_, 3; effect on the parasite, 4; how a harmless kind may become harmful, 5; immunity, 6; _Diseases caused by parasites_, 7; ancient and modern views, 7; _Infectious and contagious diseases_, 8; examples, 9; importance of distinguishing, 9; _Effect of the parasite on the host_, 9; microbes everywhere, 10; importance of size, 11; numbers, 11; location, 11; mechanical injury, 12; morphological injury, 13; physiological effect, 13; the point of view, 14. CHAPTER II BACTERIA AND PROTOZOA 15 _Bacteria_, 15; border line between plants and animals, 15; most bacteria not harmful, 15; a few cause disease, 15; how they multiply, 15; parasitic and non-parasitic kinds, 17; how a kind normally harmless may become harmful, 18; effect of the bacteria on the host, 18; methods of dissemination, 18; _Protozoa_, 19; _Amoeba_, 19; its lack of special organs, 19; where it lives, 19; growth and reproduction, 19; _Classes of Protozoa_, 20; the amoeba-like forms, 20; the flagellate forms, 20; importance of these, 21; the ciliated forms, 22; the Sporozoa or spore-forming kinds, 22; these most important, 23; abundance, 23; adaptability, 23; common characters, 24; ability to resist unfavorable conditions, 24. CHAPTER III TICKS AND MITES 26 _Ticks_, 26; general characters, 27; mouth-parts, 27; habits, 27; life-history, 27; _Ticks and disease_, 28; _Texas fever_, 28; its occurrence in the north, 28; carried by a tick, 29; loss and methods of control, 31; other diseases of cattle carried by ticks, 31; keywords: animals; blood; body; cause; common; disease; eggs; experiments; fever; fig; fleas; flies; fly; germs; habits; history; host; house; illustration; infected; insects; jour; larvæ; life; malaria; man; med; mosquitoes; new; parasites; parts; places; plague; rats; relation; results; species; spread; ticks; time; typhoid; vol; water; way; work cache: 28177.txt plain text: 28177.txt item: #31 of 75 id: 29414 author: Jenner, Edward title: An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox date: None words: 10924 flesch: 57 summary: In the year 1792, conceiving herself, from this circumstance, secure from the infection of the Small Pox, she nursed one of her own children who had accidentally caught the disease, but no indisposition ensued.--During the time she remained in the infected room, variolous matter was inserted into both her arms, but without any further effect than in the preceding case. [Footnote 1: I have purposely selected several cases in which the disease had appeared at a very distant period previous to the experiments made with variolous matter, to shew that the change produced in the constitution is not affected by time. keywords: case; cow pox; cows; day; disease; infection; matter; pox; state; time; year cache: 29414.txt plain text: 29414.txt item: #32 of 75 id: 29737 author: Hope, Robert Charles title: The Leper in England: with some account of English lazar-houses date: None words: 11826 flesch: 77 summary: S. Albans S. Mary. S. John. S. Julian. S. George S. Leonard. keywords: aforesaid; ante; bread; city; day; disease; england; henry; holy; house; iii; john; king; lazar; lepers; leprosy; magdalene; men; persons; s. john; s. leonard; s. mary; temp; william cache: 29737.txt plain text: 29737.txt item: #33 of 75 id: 30099 author: Hill, John title: Hypochondriasis: A Practical Treatise (1766) date: None words: 12141 flesch: 65 summary: The Augustan Reprint Society JOHN HILL HYPOCHONDRIASIS A Practical Treatise. (1766) Introduction by G. S. ROUSSEAU Publication Number 135 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University Of California, Los Angeles 1969 GENERAL EDITORS William E. Conway, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Maximillian E. Novak, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ASSOCIATE EDITOR David S. Rodes, _University of California, Los Angeles_ ADVISORY EDITORS Richard C. Boys, _University of Michigan_ James L. Clifford, _Columbia University_ Ralph Cohen, _University of Virginia_ Vinton A. Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Arthur Friedman, _University of Chicago_ Louis A. Landa, _Princeton University_ Earl Miner, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Samuel H. Monk, _University of Minnesota_ Everett T. Moore, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Lawrence Clark Powell, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ James Sutherland, _University College, London_ H. T. Swedenberg, Jr., _University of California, Los Angeles_ Robert Vosper, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Edna C. Davis, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Mary Kerbret, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ INTRODUCTION When I first dabbled in this art, the old distemper call'd _Melancholy_ was exchang'd for _Vapours_, and afterwards for the _Hypp_, and at last took up the now current appellation of the _Spleen_, which it still retains, tho' a learned doctor of the west, in a little tract he hath written, divides the _Spleen_ and _ Hypochondria_; for they have no material distinctive Characters, but what arise from the same Disease affecting different Sexes, and the Vapours in Women are term'd the _Hypochondria_ in Men, and they proceed from the Contraction of the Vessels being depress'd a little beneath the Balance of Nature, and the Relaxation of the Nerves at the same Time, which creates that Uneasiness and Melancholy that naturally attends Vapours, and which generally is an Intemperature of the whole Body, proceeding from a Depression of the Solids beneath the Balance of Nature; but the Intemperature of the Parts is that Peculiar Disposition whereby they favour any Disease.[8] keywords: air; angeles; body; california; century; cure; disease; disorder; hill; hypochondriasis; john; literature; london; los; medicine; melancholy; nature; new; patient; spleen; time; university; william cache: 30099.txt plain text: 30099.txt item: #34 of 75 id: 30152 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders date: None words: 22 flesch: 69 summary: LEADERS*** Copyright (C) 2009 by Lidija Rangelovska Narcissus Publications Please see the Rich Text File (RTF) for the content of this eBook. keywords: leaders cache: 30152.txt plain text: 30152.txt item: #35 of 75 id: 30487 author: Marrs, William Taylor title: Confessions of a Neurasthenic date: None words: 21118 flesch: 75 summary: I had read that any puny, warped little body could, by proper and persistent training, be made sturdy and strong. As I now look back on my infantile career, I have little reason to question why I was nervous and spoiled as I merged from infancy into childhood. keywords: business; case; chapter; course; day; disease; doctor; fact; fear; good; health; heart; life; love; man; matter; mind; neurasthenic; people; reader; symptoms; things; thought; time; way; work; years cache: 30487.txt plain text: 30487.txt item: #36 of 75 id: 31548 author: Chicoyneau, François title: A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles Its Symptoms and the Methods and Medicines Used for Curing It date: None words: 6406 flesch: 37 summary: The following Relation having been sent to us by Messieurs_ Chicoyneau, Verney _and_ Soullier, _deputed by the Court for the Relief of our City afflicted with the Plague: We_ Charles Claude de Andrault de LANGERON, _Knight and Commander of the Order of St._ All these Remedies, and others of the same Nature, are without doubt very proper to animate and raise the almost extinguished Strength of these poor sick Persons; nevertheless we have with Grief seen almost all of them perish on a sudden, which presently confirmed us in the Opinion generally received, that the Malignity of the pestilential Ferment is of a Force superior to all Remedies; but as we have also seen them succeed in some particular Cases, there is Room to presume, and one is but too much convinced of it by fatal Experience, that the Desertion and Inactivity of the greatest Part of the People who might have given Assistance, that the Want of Nourishment, of Remedies and Attendance, that the fatal Prejudice of being seized by an incurable Distemper, that the Despair of seeing ones self abandoned without any Relief, one is, I say, well convinced that all these Causes have not less contributed than the Violence of the Disease, to the sudden Destruction of so great a Number of the Sick, not only of this first Class, but also of the following; seeing that in Proportion as this mortal Fear of the Contagion is diminished, and that one is mutually assisted, that the Hopes and Courage of the People are returned; that, in one Word, the good Order is re-established in this City by the Authority, Firmness and Vigilance of the Chevalier _de_ LANGERON, by the great Care of the Governor, and by the constant and indefatigable Endeavours of the Sheriffs; one has beheld the Progress and Violence of this terrible _Scourge_ to diminish insensibly, and we have been more successful in curing the infected. keywords: buboes; class; infected; method; persons; remedies; sick; symptoms; time cache: 31548.txt plain text: 31548.txt item: #37 of 75 id: 31807 author: Bradley, Richard title: The Plague at Marseilles Consider'd With Remarks Upon the Plague in General, Shewing Its Cause and Nature of Infection, with Necessary Precautions to Prevent the Speading of That Direful Distemper date: None words: 12623 flesch: 68 summary: Pepper-Dust_, being powder'd upon the _Blossoms_ of any Tree, will preserve them from Blights, which may be, because _Pepper_ is said to be present Death to every Creature but to Mankind. Near the Cathedral, is a Chappel built upon the Spot where (the _Marseillians_ tell you) S. _Mary Magdalen_ preached the Gospel to the Idolaters, as they came out of the Temple. keywords: air; bodies; cattle; distemper; infection; insects; marseilles; parts; people; places; plague; plants; self; time; winds; year cache: 31807.txt plain text: 31807.txt item: #38 of 75 id: 32171 author: Mead, Richard title: A Discourse on the Plague date: None words: 27733 flesch: 70 summary: _Mercurialis_ assures us the same Constitution of _Air_ attended the _Pestilence_ in his time at _Padua_[57]: and _Gassendus_ observed the same in the _Plague_ of _Digne_[58]. Plague_, which he describes, and what, he owns, surprized him very much: That, many of those, who left infected Places, were seized with the _Plague_ in the Towns to which they had retired, while the old Inhabitants of those Towns were free from the Disease[24]. keywords: air; body; care; city; contagion; country; disease; distemper; goods; houses; infection; kind; manner; means; nature; people; persons; peste; physicians; place; plague; pox; sick; time; town; year cache: 32171.txt plain text: 32171.txt item: #39 of 75 id: 33241 author: Adler, G. J. (George J.) title: Letters of a Lunatic A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54 date: None words: 12638 flesch: 47 summary: result, of an internal physical or intellectual disorder or defect, which is moreover susceptible of classification and of a psychological exposition, while in the former it was got up for the particular purpose of subjugation or of expulsion, and where consequently it was the result of _responsible_ perversity and malice, _susceptible of moral reprobation_. This act of rational self-recovery, whereby I constitute myself an existing idea, a person of legal and moral responsibility, _subverts the previous relation and puts an end to the injustice which I myself and the other party have done to my comprehension and to my reason, by treating and suffering to be treated the endless existence of self-consciousness as an external and an alienable object_.[2] [2] I emphasize this important clause for the particular benefit of those who in my personal history have had the absurd expectation that I should continue to entertain a respectful deference to a certain phase of religionism, which upon a careful and rational examination I found to be worthless and which is repugnant to my taste and better judgment, and of others who with equal absurdity are in the habit of exacting ecclesiastical tests (I will not say religious, for such men show by their very conduct that their enlightenment in matters of the religion of the heart is very imperfect) for academic keywords: city; day; history; honor; institution; letter; man; men; new; past; place; time; university; winter; year; york cache: 33241.txt plain text: 33241.txt item: #40 of 75 id: 35270 author: Towns, Charles Barnes title: Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy date: None words: 58159 flesch: 56 summary: Mr. Towns's plans for legislative control of drug habits also seem to me wise and far-reaching. Until legislation forced the victims of drug habits by hundreds into Bellevue Hospital in New York, this great institution rarely had one as a patient. keywords: alcohol; alcoholic; cases; doctor; drug habit; drugs; effect; fact; general; help; man; matter; means; medical; mind; morphine; new; opium; pain; patient; people; physician; profession; public; smoking; society; state; taking; time; tobacco; treatment; use; way; work; world; york cache: 35270.txt plain text: 35270.txt item: #41 of 75 id: 36006 author: United States. Public Health Service title: Diphtheria how to recognize the disease, how to keep from catching it, how to treat those who do catch it date: None words: 1745 flesch: 76 summary: In severe cases suspected to be diphtheria the doctor always gives diphtheria antitoxin at once. Every attendant on the sick should know how disease germs are carried from the sick to the well. keywords: diphtheria; patient; throat cache: 36006.txt plain text: 36006.txt item: #42 of 75 id: 36474 author: Bennett, Alexander Hughes title: A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy date: None words: 20485 flesch: 69 summary: ============ WILLIAM MURRELL, M.D., M.R.C.P., M.R.C.S. _ ============ HENEAGE GIBBES, M.D. _Lecturer on Physiology and Histology in the Medical School of Westminster Hospital; late Curator of the Anatomical Museum at King's College._ keywords: 8vo; = =; = lewis; attacks; average; bromides; cases; cent; college; disease; edition; epilepsy; general; hospital; m.d; medical; number; physician; symptoms; table; treatment; university; years cache: 36474.txt plain text: 36474.txt item: #43 of 75 id: 37057 author: Haslam, John title: Observations on Insanity With Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection date: None words: 21057 flesch: 59 summary: Upon enquiry of such patients, after they have recovered, they have assured me, that these actions afforded them considerable relief. For this reason it is highly important, that he who pretends to regulate the conduct of such patients, should first have learned the management of himself. keywords: age; blood; brain; case; consistence; death; disease; hospital; ideas; insanity; man; mind; months; number; patients; persons; state; time; water; years cache: 37057.txt plain text: 37057.txt item: #44 of 75 id: 37060 author: Isaacson, Lauren Ann title: Through These Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer date: None words: 175652 flesch: 75 summary: I remembered the hurts and injustices of those around me, yet the memories of my pain still over-shadowed and dominated those which I viewed in other lives. I believe that everyone, including those having well-aligned values, possess a foremost problem which, despite even the greatest amenities of good health and even a loving home, can exist within the minds of the most fortunate individuals; indeed, some people are ashamed of their problems since they appear so insignificant when compared to those in other lives. keywords: bed; blood; body; cancer; car; change; chapter; child; class; control; conversation; course; dad; day; days; death; degree; doctor; door; end; evening; existence; eyes; face; fact; family; fear; feel; feeling; felt; find; following; food; friends; god; going; good; grade; hair; hand; head; health; heart; high; home; hope; hospital; hours; house; idea; individual; isaacson; lack; lauren; left; life; lives; living; look; love; man; mind; mom; morning; nature; need; new; night; norm; nurse; page; pain; parents; past; patient; people; person; place; problem; reality; reason; return; room; school; self; sense; situation; stomach; summer; sun; things; thought; time; today; todd; tracy; treatment; way; week; wish; words; work; world; years cache: 37060.txt plain text: 37060.txt item: #45 of 75 id: 37142 author: Granger, William D. title: How to Care for the Insane: A Manual for Nurses date: None words: 27880 flesch: 68 summary: Of the general conduct.--Observe the dress, if neat and tidy, or otherwise, private habits, care of personal wants, improvement in conduct, the influence of attendants and other patients, or the influence the patient himself exerts on others. Attendants must learn that mere noise, and much of maniacal activity, such as running about, jumping, or pounding, is not in itself harmful, and that unless such patients are doing themselves injury, or so disturbing the ward and other patients as to require interference, it is better to control than to repress and restrict them. keywords: asylum; attendants; bed; body; brain; care; condition; control; day; delusions; disease; food; insane; insanity; m.d; medicine; mind; mouth; night; patients; physician; time; ward; water; way; work cache: 37142.txt plain text: 37142.txt item: #46 of 75 id: 37144 author: Haslam, John title: Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection date: None words: 51461 flesch: 57 summary: Upon enquiry of such patients, after they have recovered, they have assured me that these actions afforded them considerable relief. Whenever the doctor visits a violent or mischievous maniac, however controlling his physiognomy, such patient is always secured by the straight waistcoat; and it is, moreover, thought expedient to afford him the society of one or more keepers. keywords: account; age; arachnoidea; attention; blood; boards; brain; case; circumstances; consistence; day; days; death; degree; disease; disorder; general; good; head; hospital; hours; house; human; ideas; insane; insanity; madness; man; manner; means; mind; months; nature; number; observations; opinion; patient; people; persons; pia; place; quantity; reason; state; subject; time; tunica; ventricles; water; years cache: 37144.txt plain text: 37144.txt item: #47 of 75 id: 37222 author: Stearns, Henry Putnam title: Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention date: None words: 49763 flesch: 49 summary: Relative frequency of the occurrence of insanity in the sexes-- The sexual system in the female exerts a larger influence upon the nervous system in certain ways than that of the male-- Sexual derangements dependent upon the debility of the nervous system--They are generally _consequents_ and not causes of nervous debility--Functional derangements of sexual organs rare among the insane--A tendency to recovery in case they do exist--Other conditions not favorable to mental health 187 CHAPTER XIII. Persons, in certain states of the nervous system, are pleased with persons, objects, and sensations, which afford them no pleasure at other times; they are displeased and pained, while in other conditions, with sentiments which would at other times produce no such effect. keywords: action; activity; alcohol; brain; cases; character; children; conditions; disease; education; effects; health; importance; increase; influence; insane; insanity; life; mind; number; period; persons; physical; present; relation; results; society; study; system; thought; time; use; years cache: 37222.txt plain text: 37222.txt item: #48 of 75 id: 37592 author: Anstie, Francis Edmund title: Neuralgia and the Diseases That Resemble It date: None words: 108061 flesch: 48 summary: In the case of a woman who was under my care at the Chelsea Dispensary, some years ago, this was the unsuspected origin of severe neuralgic pains in the left ovary, which recurred several times a day, and which certainly contributed to the patient's death by the exhaustion which they produced. In the first case I saw (a woman, aged thirty-two), nothing could be more startling than the rapidity with which an irregular patch of the skin, including half of one cheek, the side of the nose, and a large part of the forehead and scalp on the same side, became converted into the dense, fiery-red, brawny tissue, with minute vesicles scattered over its surface, which looks so characteristic of erysipelas; this commenced immediately on the subsidence of severe neuralgic pain. keywords: affection; angina; attacks; branches; cases; cause; change; character; course; current; day; disease; effect; experience; eye; fact; form; general; good; heart; history; influence; instances; irritation; kind; life; manner; migraine; motor; nerve; neuralgia; neurotic; number; pain; paralysis; patient; period; point; present; pressure; sensory; skin; spinal; subject; symptoms; system; tendency; time; treatment; way; work; years cache: 37592.txt plain text: 37592.txt item: #49 of 75 id: 37675 author: Warfield, Louis M. (Louis Marshall) title: Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. date: None words: 69802 flesch: 62 summary: ARTERIOSCLEROSIS AND HYPERTENSION With Chapters on Blood Pressure BY LOUIS M. WARFIELD, A.B., M.D., (Johns Hopkins), F.A.C.P. FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL; CHIEF PHYSICIAN TO MILWAUKEE COUNTY HOSPITAL; ASSOCIATE MEMBER ASSOCIATION AMERICAN PHYSICIANS; MEMBER AMERICAN ASSOCIATION PATHOLOGISTS AND BACTERIOLOGISTS; AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, ETC., FELLOW AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS _THIRD EDITION_ ST. The chapter on Blood Pressure has been much expanded and some original observations have been included. keywords: = =; age; aorta; aortic; arterial; arteries; arteriosclerosis; artery; blood pressure; blood vessels; cardiac; cases; changes; chronic; condition; diastolic; disease; examination; exercise; fig; heart; hypertension; hypertrophy; illustration; increase; left; life; man; media; mercury; muscle; normal; patient; pressure cases; pressure instrument; pressure picture; pulse pressure; rule; symptoms; systolic pressure; time; tissue; treatment; ventricle; vessels; work; years cache: 37675.txt plain text: 37675.txt item: #50 of 75 id: 38090 author: Chicago (Ill.). Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. Dispensary Department title: Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium date: None words: 24039 flesch: 62 summary: Some of the important features of the work of this dispensary in its relation to nurses are as follows: (1) An efficient training school for tuberculosis nurses, affording the opportunity of hospital and dispensary training. The percutaneous tuberculin test fails in a large proportion of tuberculosis cases. keywords: air; air school; care; cases; chicago; children; city; clinic; department; disease; dispensary; general; health; home; hospital; new; nurses; nursing; open; patient; reaction; room; school; tent; test; time; treatment; tuberculin; tuberculosis; tuberculosis dispensary; tuberculosis nurses; tuberculosis sanitarium; window; work cache: 38090.txt plain text: 38090.txt item: #51 of 75 id: 38282 author: Anonymous title: The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House date: None words: 9380 flesch: 76 summary: As evidence of the fact, Mr. Herriges brought forth an old time receipt-book and showed us the following receipt: Received January 12, 1838, of Mr. Joseph Herriges, five dollars in full for one quarter's tuition of brother John B. Herriges, at evening school, including light and stationary. $5. R. O. R. LOUETT. Since going to press with this history an account of the affair has appeared in _THE DAY_, and which we have inserted here with the desire to place before the public whatever may be favorable to Mr. Herriges in the matter of his brother's confinement. keywords: brother; gibson; herriges; house; john; man; mother; mrs; room; time; years cache: 38282.txt plain text: 38282.txt item: #52 of 75 id: 39036 author: Walsh, James J. (James Joseph) title: Essays In Pastoral Medicine date: None words: 127030 flesch: 59 summary: The objection that the danger to my life from the action of the lunatic exists _hic et nunc_ and that the danger to the mother's life does not threaten _hic et nunc_, is not of any weight. She is in actual danger _hic et nunc_, even while the surgeon is in the room examining her. keywords: abortion; action; affection; aggressor; air; alcohol; alcoholic; arteries; attack; attention; aut; bacillus; bitters; blood; body; brain; caesarean; cases; cause; cells; centum; child; children; chronic; circumstances; condition; course; crime; criminal; danger; days; death; development; diagnosis; die; diphtheria; disease; disturbance; doubt; ectopic; effect; end; epilepsy; esse; est; evil; existence; fact; family; father; fever; foetus; form; general; gestation; good; half; hands; head; health; heart; hemorrhage; heredity; history; hours; human; impotentia; individual; infection; influence; insanity; knowledge; law; left; life; man; mania; matter; means; medical; medicine; melancholia; men; mind; monsters; months; mortality; mother; new; non; number; operation; opinion; organs; ovum; pain; paranoia; patient; people; persons; physician; place; pneumonia; potest; pregnancy; present; priest; prognosis; question; reason; regard; responsibility; result; right; room; rule; rupture; school; second; section; sense; set; skin; smallpox; state; subject; suffering; suicide; surgeon; symptoms; syphilis; system; tendency; term; thought; time; treatment; tube; uterus; water; way; woman; work; years; young cache: 39036.txt plain text: 39036.txt item: #53 of 75 id: 39044 author: Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) title: Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health date: None words: 159900 flesch: 63 summary: Of this last Sort and Character are, 1, All sharp and hot Medicines, spirituous Liquors, Oil of Amber,--other hot Oils and Essences, volatile Salts, and such other Medicines, as, by the Violence of their Action on the irritable Organs of Children, are likelier to produce Convulsions, than to allay them. p. 137, l. 13, for _Efflorescene_ read _Efflorescence_, p. 145, l. 1, for _Water_ read _Tea_. keywords: air; belly; bleeding; blood; body; breast; cases; cause; children; circumstances; cold; common; consequence; country; cure; danger; days; degree; discharge; disease; disorder; distemper; drink; effect; fever; food; good; half; head; health; heat; hours; humours; inflammation; kind; matter; means; medicines; milk; nature; number; nº.; pain; parts; patient; people; persons; powder; pulse; quantity; remedies; sick; skin; state; stomach; strength; symptoms; time; vomit; water; wine; years cache: 39044.txt plain text: 39044.txt item: #54 of 75 id: 40505 author: Hess, Alfred F. title: Scurvy, Past and Present date: None words: 1510 flesch: -1458 summary: 505. INDEX A Acid, effect on keeping qualities of antiscorbutics, 66, 161 Acidosis, 244 theory, 24 Adrenals, 102 in guinea-pig scurvy, 122 Adult, scurvy in, history of, 1 Age incidence, 51 Aging, effect on antiscorbutics of, 67 Agglutinins, effect of scurvy on, 68 Alimentary tract, gross pathology, 89 microscopic pathology, 100 Alkalization, effect on milk of, 50 on orange juice of, 66, 154 Amboceptor, effect of scurvy on, 68 Anasarca, 86, 196 Animals, scurvy in, 114 Anorexia, 206 Antiscorbutics, and antiscorbutic foods, 143, =149=, 157 history of use of, 9, 143 Antitoxin, effect of scurvy on, 68 Appendicitis, confused diagnosis, 183 Appetite, 206 Apple, antiscorbutic value of, 158 Armies, scurvy in, 3, 15 Army, use of canned tomatoes in ration of U. S., 231 B Bacteria, fecal, in scurvy, 28 as etiological factor in scurvy, 134 in tissues, 133 Bacterial theory of scurvy, 30 Banana, antiscorbutic value of, 158 Beading of ribs, 197 in guinea-pig, 129, 137 pathology of, 94 Beans, germinated, 167, 231 Beef juice, 236 Beer, antiscorbutic value of, 20, =169= Beriberi, differential diagnosis, 221 relation to scurvy, =249= Berries, antiscorbutic value of, 156 Blindness, 182 Blood cells, changes in, 209-211 Blood cells, chemistry of, 244, 245 coagulability of, 211 Blood vessels, changes in, 68, =98=, 209 in guinea-pigs, 133 Blood, vitamine content of, 76 Bones, gross pathology, 93 microscopic pathology, 105 Brain, pathology, 93 Breast fed, scurvy in, 35 C Cabbage, antiscorbutic value of, 159 dehydrated, 165 effect of heat on, 159 Calcium, deposits of, 98, 102, 103 metabolism, 241-247 Capillary resistance test, =212=, 257 Carbohydrates, 34, 59 Cardiorespiratory syndrome, 200 Cardiovascular system, 199 Carrots, antiscorbutic value of, 159, 160 Central nervous system, gross pathology, 93 microscopic pathology, =104= Cereals, antiscorbutic value of, 170 germinated, 167 Cerebrospinal fluid, 203 Chlorides, 242-247 Citric acid theory, 23 Climate, 55 Complement, effect of scurvy on, 69 Complexion, characteristic change in, 176, 184 Complications of scurvy, 182, 202, 205, 217 Constipation, 27, =118-122=, 207 Cord, spinal, pathology, 93, 104 Creatinine, 244 Cure, 236 D Death, causes of, 179, 227 Deficiency diseases, general discussion, 63, 248 Diagnosis, 176, 219 Diastase, blood content of, 244 Diet, general, 59 Digestive disturbances, 78 Diphtheria, antitoxin in blood, 68 as complication of scurvy, 217 Drying, effect on vitamines of, 66 Duodenum, pathology, 89 Dysentery, 59, 182 E Economic status, 55 Eczema, 195 Edema, 178, 184, =196= hunger, 256 war, 256 Eggs, antiscorbutic value of, 168 Endocrine organs, gross pathology, 92 microscopic pathology, 104 extracts of, as preventive, 172 theory of vitamine action, 72 Epidemics, 2, 217 Epiphyses, separation of, 96, 181, =198= Etiology, =35= exciting factors in, 60 Excretion of vitamine, 77 Expeditions, scurvy in Arctic, 10 Experimental scurvy, 111 pathogenesis, 116 pathology, 122 symptoms, 135 Exudative diathesis, 59, 256 Eyeball, proptosis, 193 F Familial tendency, 58 Fats, in diet, effect on scurvy, 59 Fever, 181, =216= Foetus, effect of scorbutic diet on, 125 Food, excess of, 257 Foods, antiscorbutic, 143, =149= proprietary, 49 Fractures, 95 Frost-bite, 180 Fruit juices, 153 Fruits, fresh, 144 G Generative organs, pathology, 104 Glands, endocrine, 72 changes in, 73, 92, 104 Glucose, blood content of, 244 Grapes, antiscorbutic value of, 158 Growth in scurvy, 213 Guinea-pig scurvy, 112, 114 Guinea-pig pathogenesis, 116 pathology, 122 relation to human, 115 symptoms, 135 Gums, 177, 181, 184 in infantile scurvy, =189= pathology of, 89, 100 H Hair, changes in, 194 Heart, =200= gross pathology, 87 microscopic pathology, 99 Heat, effect on vitamine of, 65 Hemorrhages, 180, 189 as early symptoms, 178 distribution of, 84 gastric, 208 orbital, 193 subperiosteal, 95, =191= urinary, 204 History of scurvy, 1 Hog, effect of scorbutic diet on, 115 Hypophysis, 104 I Infantile scurvy, history, 10 in artificially fed, 40 in breast-fed, 35 increase during World War, 21-22 relation to epidemic scurvy of adults, 15, 37 relation to rickets, 11, =110=, =252= symptomatology, =183= Infection, as exciting factor, 60, 218 increased liability to, 68 effect on prognosis, 227 Intestines, gross pathology, 90 microscopic pathology, 100 Intravenous use of orange juice, 238 Irregularities in course of deficiency diseases, 78 J Jaundice, 208 Joints, lesions of, 199 K Kidneys, gross pathology, 91 microscopic pathology, 102 L Latent scurvy, 179, 183, =187= Laxatives, failure to cure with, 28, =207= Lemon juice, antiscorbutic value of, 153, 234 dried, 155, 232 ration in British Navy, 9, 144 Lentils, value as antiscorbutic, 167, 231 Lice, theory of transmission of scurvy by, 30 Lime juice, antiscorbutic value of, 156 fallacy in regard to, 149 use in British Navy, 144 Liver, gross pathology, 91 microscopic pathology, 101 Lungs, gross pathology, 88 microscopic pathology, 99 Lymph-nodes, gross pathology, 92 microscopic pathology, 101 M Malnutrition, general, 58 Malt soup, 50 Marrow, changes in, 107 Meat, fresh, 147, =168= salt, 146 Mehlnaerschaden of Czerny, 256 Metabolism in scurvy, 241-247 Milk, alkalized, 50 amount necessary to prevent scurvy, 49, 117, =150= boiled, 44, 65 condensed, 48 dried, 46, 66, =152= effect of industrial methods on, 43 evaporated, 45 pasteurized, 40, 65 home vs. commercial, 42 sterilized, 44 breast, amount necessary to prevent scurvy, 36, 39, 153 as cause of beriberi, 39 cows, antiscorbutic value of, 40, 152 goats, antiscorbutic value of, 153 Mineral metabolism in scurvy, 241-247 Monkey, scurvy in, 114, =127= pathology, 128 Muscles, pathology, 97 N Nails, changes in, 194 Necropsy reports, 82 Nephritis, 205 Nerves, peripheral, in guinea-pig scurvy, 132 pathology, 105 Nervous system, effect of scurvy on, 202 Nutrition, general, in scurvy, 58, 59, 213 Nyctalopia, 182 O Orange juice, antiscorbutic value of, =153=, 234 artificial, 33 dried, 155 effect of alkalization of, 154 intravenous use of, 238 subcutaneous use of, 155 peel, antiscorbutic value of, 234 Osteogenesis imperfecta, 255 Osteomalacia, differentiation of, from scurvy, 255 Osteomyelitis, differentiation of, from scurvy, 222 Osteoporosis, differentiation of, from scurvy, 255 Osteotabes infantum, 109 P Pains, as early symptom, 176 Pancreas, gross pathology, 91 microscopic pathology, 104 Pasteurized milk, 40 Pathogenesis of scurvy, theories of, 23 Pathology of scurvy in guinea-pig, 122 in man, gross, 83 microscopic, 96 in monkey, 128 Peas, antiscorbutic value of, 167, 231 Pellagra, 251 Phenols, excretion of, 245 Phosphate metabolism, 241-247 Pigeon, effect of scorbutic diet on, 114 Pneumonia, 202 Posture, characteristic, in guinea-pig, 136 Posture, characteristic, infant, 183 Potassium deficiency theory, 23 metabolism, =241-247= Potatoes, antiscorbutic value of, 6, 7, 146, =161=, 235 Prevention of scurvy, 230 Prognosis, 225 Protein in diet, effect on scurvy, 59 Psychic element in scurvy, 57 Pulse, 181, =201= Pulses, germinated, 167, 231 Purpura, differential diagnosis, 221 Pyorrhoea, relation to lesion of gums, 181 R Racial immunity, 56 Rats, effect of scorbutic diet on, 114, 115 Recurrent scurvy, 228 Respirations, 201 Retina, hemorrhages in, 105 Rheumatism, confusion with scurvy, 176, 220 Ribs, beading of, 197 pathology, 94 in guinea-pig, 129, 137 Rickets, relation of, to scurvy, =11=, =110=, =252= Rosary, 94, 197 S Sauerkraut, antiscorbutic value of, 145 Season, effect on incidence, 54 Sex, effect on incidence, 56 Shaking, effect on antiscorbutic factor, 68 Ship beriberi, 250 Skin, pathology, 96 Spleen, gross pathology, 91 microscopic pathology, 102 Sprue, 256 Starvation, pathology of, 125 Stomach, gross pathology, 89 microscopic pathology, 100 Storage of vitamine in body, 74 Streptococcus in blood in scurvy, 134 Subacute form of scurvy, 184 Subcutaneous use of antiscorbutics, 155 Swede, antiscorbutic value of, =162=, 235 Symptomatology, in adult, 176 in infant, 183 Syphilis, congenital, differential diagnosis, 222, 223 T Teeth, in guinea-pig scurvy, 130, 137 in human scurvy, 177 Temperature, in guinea-pig scurvy, 141 in human scurvy, 181, =216= Thymus, pathology of, 104 use of gland in treatment, 172 Thyroid, pathology of, 104 use of gland in treatment, 172 Tomatoes, canned, antiscorbutic value of, =166=, 231, 234 in U. S. Army ration, 231 Toxic theory of pathogenesis of scurvy, 25 Treatment of scurvy, 230 duration of, 237 non-dietetic, 239 U Ultra-violet rays, effect on antiscorbutics, 67 Urea content of blood, 244 of tissues, 245 Urine in scurvy, =204-206= V Vegetable juices, keeping qualities of, 161 Vegetables, antiscorbutic value of 144, =158= canned, 166 dehydrated, 163 effect of heat on, 159 fresh, 144, =158= ripeness of, effect on antiscorbutic value, 160 Vitamine, antiscorbutic, general discussion of, 62 action of, 68, 69 as antitoxin, 69 as catalytic agent, 70 as nutriment, 69 blood content of, 76 effect of heat on, 65 of ultra-violet ray on, 67 excretion of, 77 Vitamine, experimental evidence for, 62 fate in body, 74, 77 relation to water-soluble factor, 65, 67 relation to antineuritic vitamine, 67 resistance to chemical and physical processes, 64 storage in body of, =74= theory of scurvy, 32 W Weight, loss of, 138, 213 White line of Fraenkel, =128=, =198= World War, scurvy in, 15 X X-ray in diagnosis of scurvy, 128, 192, 198 Y Yeast, antiscorbutic value of, 171 keywords: effect; pathology; pig scurvy cache: 40505.txt plain text: 40505.txt item: #55 of 75 id: 41697 author: Merck & Co. title: Merck's 1899 Manual of the Materia Medica date: None words: 77256 flesch: 49 summary: tubes.)~ Antitoxin against Pulmonary Tuberculosis.--~Dose~ (subcutaneous): In _apyretic_ cases, 16 [min.] Ipecac--U.S.P. ~Dose:~ _Stomachic_, 1/2--1 grn.; _emetic_, 10--20 grn.--_Preparations:_ F.E. (1:1); Powd. keywords: -10; -30; acetate; acid; aconite; acute; alcohol; alum; ammonium; arsenic; atropine; belladonna; bismuth; bromide; calcium; calomel; camphor; carbolic; carbonate; cases; catarrh; cent; children; chloral; chloride; chloroform; chronic; cocaine; cod; cold; copper; cough; creosote; daily; diarrhea; digitalis; doses; emetic; etc; ether; f.e; fever; gaduol; glycerin; grn; hemol; hydrate; hydrochlorate; ichthalbin; ichthyol; inhalation; injection; iodide; iodoform; iron; lead; liver; merck.~; mercury; min; morphine; nitrate; nux; oil; ointment; opium; oxide; pain; parts; phosphate; potassium; potassium iodide; powd; powd.--sol; quinine; salicylate; salicylic; salts; silver; sodium; solution; sozoiodole; stomach; strychnine; sulphate; tincture; tonic; turpentine; u.s.p; vomica; water; white; zinc cache: 41697.txt plain text: 41697.txt item: #56 of 75 id: 4256 author: Bogue, Benjamin Nathaniel title: Stammering, Its Cause and Cure date: None words: 50193 flesch: 68 summary: As a matter of experience, speech troubles are not 'outgrown.' Imitation or mimicry, as heretofore stated, is the most prolific cause of speech trouble and to place a child who stammers or stutters in the company of an older person similarly afflicted, is to invite a serious form of the disorder. keywords: age; boy; case; child; children; condition; cure; day; home; institute; life; man; mind; organs; parents; period; physical; school; speech; stage; stammerer; stammering; stuttering; talk; time; treatment; trouble; word; work; years cache: 4256.txt plain text: 4256.txt item: #57 of 75 id: 43012 author: Anonymous title: Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate date: None words: 34848 flesch: 66 summary: Still, the sleep provoked by opium is not Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, but death's half-brother, sleep,--a state in which, with reference to opium eaters, their drenched natures lie as in a death; _their_ breath alone showing that _they_ live; while death and nature do contend about them, whether they live or die. His extravagant eulogy of opium, and almost wildly-gay and lively manner of treating such a sardonically solemn subject as the effects of opium, though under the anomalous title, The Pleasures of Opium, show the man to have been morally depraved,[1] and utterly regardless of the influence of his writings. keywords: case; chapter; coleridge; condition; day; dose; effect; food; good; habit; life; man; men; mind; night; opium; opium eater; prisoners; quincey; reader; shelling; sleep; state; stomach; suffering; system; taking; thought; time; use; way cache: 43012.txt plain text: 43012.txt item: #58 of 75 id: 43480 author: Parton, James title: Smoking and Drinking date: None words: 38779 flesch: 67 summary: Many men, too, risked capture in seeking what smokers call a little fire. About eleven, three or four other young men came in, to whom cigars were furnished by the military chieftain. keywords: alcohol; asylum; beer; brain; day; dollars; drink; drinking; good; half; health; home; hours; human; institution; life; man; men; months; nature; new; people; persons; pipe; self; smoke; smokers; smoking; system; thing; time; tobacco; way; whiskey; wine; work; years; york cache: 43480.txt plain text: 43480.txt item: #59 of 75 id: 43481 author: Fiske, John title: Tobacco and Alcohol I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. date: None words: 29305 flesch: 67 summary: As Sainte-Beuve profoundly remarks concerning that ferocious Duke of Burgundy for whom Fénelon wrote his Télémaque, he was such a wretch that they could not make a _man_ of him, they could only make him a _saint_: that is, he was got up on such wrong principles that, whether bad or good, he must be somewhat morally lop-sided and abnormal. We suppose Mr. Parton must _know_ keywords: action; alcohol; body; cases; digestion; dose; effects; food; good; life; man; narcosis; narcotic; nerve; nutrition; paralysis; parton; physiology; point; poison; power; smoke; smoking; state; stimulant; stimulus; subject; system; time; tobacco; use; waste; way; wine cache: 43481.txt plain text: 43481.txt item: #60 of 75 id: 44043 author: Brereton, William H. title: The Truth about Opium Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade date: None words: 82881 flesch: 57 summary: On the contrary, I feel sure that the growth of Chinese opium would be increased forthwith. Having for so many years had practically all the field to himself, it had never occurred to him that another and more competent witness from China, where all these imaginary evils from opium smoking were alleged to be taking place,--who had had better opportunities of learning the truth about opium than he could possibly have had, and who had turned those opportunities to good account,--should appear and refute his fallacies. keywords: anti; book; british; case; china opium; chinese; country; doubt; drug; effects; england; english; fact; general; good; government; hong; indian; indo; kong; man; merchants; mind; missionaries; missionary; native; opium; opium eater; opium eating; opium pipe; opium question; opium shop; opium smokers; opium smoking; opium smuggling; opium trade; opium traffic; people; point; poppy; practice; public; sir; society; state; storrs; subject; time; tobacco; treaty; truth; turner; use; world; years cache: 44043.txt plain text: 44043.txt item: #61 of 75 id: 44926 author: Bartlett, Steven J. title: When You Don't Know Where to Turn A Self-Diagnosing Guide to Counseling and Therapy date: None words: 92437 flesch: 59 summary: Their personalities, interests, values, and motivations for _offering_ therapy differ greatly. * Frequently they come to _enjoy_ therapy. keywords: anxiety; approach; attention; behavior; book; change; chapter; clients; control; counseling; decision therapy; depression; difficulties; disorders; drug therapy; drugs; example; exercise; experience; family therapy; feel; feelings; gestalt therapy; goals; good; group therapy; health; help; hypnosis; individual; information; life; living; marriage therapy; meditation; members; need; new; pain; patients; people; person; personal; personality; physical; practice; problems; psychoanalysis; psychological; psychologists; psychotherapy; reality therapy; relaxation; running; self; sense; stress; symptoms; therapies; therapist; therapy; time; training; treatment; use; way; ways; work; york cache: 44926.txt plain text: 44926.txt item: #62 of 75 id: 45673 author: Pichatty de Croislainte title: A brief Journal of what passed in the City of Marseilles, while it was afflicted with the Plague, in the Year 1720 date: None words: 25869 flesch: 52 summary: Boutellier_, Physicians of the Faculty of _Montpellier_; and M. _ Professor of the University of _Cahors_, M. _Boyer de Paradis_ of _Marseilles_, and M. _de Læbadie_, accompanied by two Master-Surgeons of _Paris_: keywords: bodies; city; day; dead; distemper; house; langeron; marseilles; number; officers; ordinance; persons; plague; sheriffs; sick; slaves; time; town; work cache: 45673.txt plain text: 45673.txt item: #63 of 75 id: 4663 author: Vaknin, Samuel title: Malignant Self Love [Excerpts] date: None words: 30 flesch: 86 summary: RTF is Rich Text Format, and is readable in nearly any modern word processing program. Please see the corresponding RTF file for this eBook. keywords: rtf cache: 4663.txt plain text: 4663.txt item: #64 of 75 id: 48455 author: Swan, Moses title: Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States date: None words: 26331 flesch: 78 summary: oh how brightly it shone, for it was a dark night and had been for many days to my soul, all my troubles subsided Said I, I have no home, and followed him to the coach, when he immediately started off down street, made a halt at Judge Robertson's office. keywords: anderson; asylum; attendant; bed; day; father; god; hall; home; house; institution; john; left; life; like; lord; lunatic; man; mind; mother; night; patients; room; time; troy; wife; years cache: 48455.txt plain text: 48455.txt item: #65 of 75 id: 48499 author: Harley, George title: Jaundice: Its Pathology and Treatment With the Application of Physiological Chemistry to the Detection and Treatment of Diseases of the Liver and Pancreas date: None words: 31821 flesch: 58 summary: I have seen a mistake of this kind happen, and that too, where a patient labouring under jaundice from obstruction, was thought to be passing the usual amount of bile in his stools, when in reality not a particle of bile pigment was present. 11 Is bile essential to life?--Effect on the system of absence of bile in the digestive process--Death from starvation as a result--Benefit derived from an additional quantity of food--Uses of bile in the animal economy--Necessary to the absorption and assimilation of food--Bile as a digestive agent--Its action on the chyme--Experiments on its influence over the absorption of fatty matter--Its relation to the pancreatic juice--Bile taken internally by Caffres . . . . . . keywords: acid; bile; biliary; bladder; blood; cases; colour; congestion; disease; duct; gall; hepatic; jaundice; liver; obstruction; patient; quantity; secretion; stones; suppression; time; treatment; urine cache: 48499.txt plain text: 48499.txt item: #66 of 75 id: 49319 author: Wintringham, Clifton title: An Essay on Contagious Diseases more particularly on the small-pox, measles, putrid, malignant, and pestilential fevers date: None words: 10234 flesch: 60 summary: On which Account they are not only capable of creating great Disordes, as Inflamation, Pain, Sickness, Anxiety, Vomiting, _&c._ in the Stomach and Nervous Parts; But likewise being carried immediately into the Blood, will there stimulate the ultimate Vessels, ferment, dissolve, or coagulate the circulating Juices according to the particular Qualities and Quantity of the Contagious Particles. For the Blood in these Circumstances may not unaptly be compared, as was before hinted, to a fermenting Liquor, whose Parts being constantly in Motion, are continually throwing off great Quantities of subtil and active Spirits, capable of exciting the same Fermentation, and producing the same Qualities in those of the like Species, as appears from our manner of fermenting Ale, Beer, _&c._ with Yeast, which is a Spirituous Ferment, and also from the Sower Ferments used in making Vinegar, _&c._ keywords: air; animal; blood; body; diseases; force; particles; parts; pestilential; proportion; sidenote; surface; vessels cache: 49319.txt plain text: 49319.txt item: #67 of 75 id: 49567 author: Mertens, Charles de title: An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771 date: None words: 21024 flesch: 61 summary: These symptoms taken singly, do not constitute the plague; for many other disorders are equally rapid in their course; petechiæ appear in common putrid fevers; in some malignant fevers carbuncles are met with; buboes are produced by the venereal disease and scurvy; and some times, though very rarely, a crisis happens in putrid fevers by abscesses forming under the arm-pits; but these abscesses arise later in these cases than they do in the plague, and moreover they are not accompanied with buboes and the other symptoms which characterize the plague. In some instances the patient is seized from the first with a furious delirium; at other times this delirium or phrenitic state does not supervene until the second, third, or fourth day. keywords: bodies; buboes; carbuncles; contagion; day; dead; disorder; hospital; infected; manner; moscow; number; patients; persons; physicians; plague; sick; symptoms; time; town cache: 49567.txt plain text: 49567.txt item: #68 of 75 id: 53728 author: Whitney, Elijah title: Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure date: None words: 35918 flesch: 55 summary: In typhoid cases, he pursued an entirely different course, and remarked that many cholera cases presented symptoms similar to those described in Wood's Practice, as belonging to pernicious fever, which must be treated according to their peculiar character. In other cases there is more blood in the minute structure, a corresponding dark color of the lung, and a variable amount of frothy serum. keywords: action; blood; cases; cause; chloroform; cholera; condition; disease; doses; general; half; hour; influence; opium; ounce; pathology; patient; power; practice; principle; prompt; relief; remedy; spoonful; stage; symptoms; system; time; treatment; water cache: 53728.txt plain text: 53728.txt item: #69 of 75 id: 55104 author: Murphy, P. L. (Patrick Livingston) title: Colony Treatment of the Insane and Other Defectives date: None words: 2842 flesch: 66 summary: [Illustration: SNAP SHOT--COLONY PATIENTS CULTIVATING STRAWBERRIES] It may occur to some to ask why these men had not been sent out to work before and given an opportunity. In general hospitals, in institutions for children, and in reformatories we have a different class to deal with. keywords: colony; hospitals; illustration; insane; patients cache: 55104.txt plain text: 55104.txt item: #70 of 75 id: 56407 author: Stone, Elizabeth T. title: A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown McLean Assylum, Where She Was Confined Under the Pretence of Insanity date: None words: 23517 flesch: 78 summary: If holiness is liable to become a disease, as they pretend to say it does, and man has found out how to give medicine to take away from a person what they call derangement and the agony is so great and then it leaves the person in a state of suffering here of body and without the spirit of Christ, a person must suffer forever, for out of Christ God is a consuming fire; but in Christ a person can bless and praise God amidst the burning flames. About 4 o'clock brother Stephen came in and asked me to go down and spend Thanksgiving with them, as he was up on business, and asked Nancy and brother James likewise. keywords: brother; christ; day; god; good; house; life; medicine; room; sister; spirit; thing; time; world cache: 56407.txt plain text: 56407.txt item: #71 of 75 id: 57069 author: Dancel, J.-F. (Jean-François) title: Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure date: None words: 28254 flesch: 60 summary: Many such cases have occurred. I have met with many such cases. keywords: blood; body; case; corpulence; day; development; disease; fat; following; food; health; man; means; meat; obesity; persons; pounds; system; time; treatment; use; water; weight; years cache: 57069.txt plain text: 57069.txt item: #72 of 75 id: 5994 author: Carroll, Robert S. (Robert Sproul) title: Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness date: None words: 64909 flesch: 72 summary: Year after year passed, with the hardy man a literal cheer-leader in the Denny household, till his gradually hardening arteries began to leak. Year after year, sickness proved her defense for all assaults of importuning duty. keywords: aunt; boy; business; chapter; child; children; church; daughter; day; days; death; devotion; doctor; eyes; face; family; father; fear; fine; girl; good; heart; help; high; home; hours; husband; illness; life; living; love; man; mind; months; mother; mrs; new; night; nurse; play; room; school; self; sick; sister; son; soul; strength; suffering; thought; time; training; way; weeks; wife; woman; work; years; young cache: 5994.txt plain text: 5994.txt item: #73 of 75 id: 62608 author: Betts, M. C. (Morris Cotgrave) title: Rat Proofing Buildings and Premises date: None words: 10369 flesch: 60 summary: In the Southern States, where the roof rat occurs, similar care must be taken to make the upper floors and roofs of buildings rat proof, as this rat is an expert climber and frequently enters buildings by way of the roof. Such rat proofing may be accomplished by filling the hollow spaces to a height of 8 or 10 inches above the sill with cement, bricks, or other material resistant to the gnawing of rats, or a strip of galvanized metal 2 or more feet wide may be carried around the inside wall just above the sill. keywords: building; city; concrete; feet; figure; floors; garbage; ground; metal; proofing; rat; rat proofing; rats; spaces; wall cache: 62608.txt plain text: 62608.txt item: #74 of 75 id: 7293 author: Day, Horace B. title: The Opium Habit date: None words: 108088 flesch: 58 summary: A necessity more painful to me by far than that of taking continued exercise arose out of a cause which applies perhaps with the same intensity only to opium cases, but must also apply in some degree to all cases of debilitation from morbid stimulation of the nerves, whether by means of wine, or opium, or distilled liquors. To an expert reader of opium cases it will soon become apparent whether in any given case a patient is taking more than the amount prescribed--and after total abandonment is resolved upon, the question whether the patient is taking opium at all may be decided by a tyro. keywords: action; bodily; body; case; coleridge; condition; daily; day; days; death; dose; drops; drug; eater; effects; effort; experience; fact; feeling; friend; general; good; grains; habit; half; hand; having; health; hours; kind; laudanum; life; little; man; means; medical; men; mind; months; nature; new; night; opium; opium habit; pain; patient; period; physician; place; power; quantity; reader; relief; sense; sleep; spirits; state; stomach; subject; suffering; system; thing; time; use; way; week; years cache: 7293.txt plain text: 7293.txt item: #75 of 75 id: 9172 author: Kent, Grace Helen title: A Study of Association in Insanity date: None words: 64510 flesch: 71 summary: Some time ago we estimated the average degree of sound similarity between stimulus words and reaction words in a series of one hundred test records obtained from normal persons; we found that on the average 14.53 per cent of the sounds of the stimulus words were reproduced, in the same order, in the reaction word. Normal reactions. keywords: anger; baby; bath; bed; blue; boy; bread; butter; butterfly; carpet; case; cat; chair; child; city; cold; color; comfort; command; dark; doctor; earth; eating; foot; fruit; girl; green; hand; hard; head; health; house; joy; lamp; light; man; mountain; music; mutton; ocean; person; reactions; red; river; salt; sickness; sleep; slow; smooth; soldier; sour; square; stimulus; stomach; street; sweet; swift; table; trouble; water; white; window; wish; woman; word; working; yellow; | | cache: 9172.txt plain text: 9172.txt