Health for the million; with observations on unhealthy employments, by the author of 'How to make home happy'.1858 |
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... SKIN . Structure of the skin - Necessity of constant ablutions - Soap- Towels - Flesh - brushes - Causes of affections of the skin- Impure air - Imperfect digestion - Nervous system - Cos- metics - Eruptions on the skin - Freckles ...
... SKIN . Structure of the skin - Necessity of constant ablutions - Soap- Towels - Flesh - brushes - Causes of affections of the skin- Impure air - Imperfect digestion - Nervous system - Cos- metics - Eruptions on the skin - Freckles ...
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... skin and of the eyes ; if the skin becomes dry it also soon becomes harsh , rough , and probably scaly . If the eyes are not properly supplied with tears , to wash the eyeballs at every motion of the eyelids , they will to a certainty ...
... skin and of the eyes ; if the skin becomes dry it also soon becomes harsh , rough , and probably scaly . If the eyes are not properly supplied with tears , to wash the eyeballs at every motion of the eyelids , they will to a certainty ...
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... skin and the eyes , the source of all comeliness is destroyed . " Many things , " observes an old writer , " are written in our books which seem to the reader to be excellent remedies ; but they that make use of them are often deceived ...
... skin and the eyes , the source of all comeliness is destroyed . " Many things , " observes an old writer , " are written in our books which seem to the reader to be excellent remedies ; but they that make use of them are often deceived ...
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... skin is strong , but not coarse . His head is not too large . He has prominent veins in the limbs , and his shoulders are rather round than flat . His neck is neither very long nor short . His stomach does not project , and his hands ...
... skin is strong , but not coarse . His head is not too large . He has prominent veins in the limbs , and his shoulders are rather round than flat . His neck is neither very long nor short . His stomach does not project , and his hands ...
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... no doctor but the sun and fresh air , and no other physic than temperance and exercise , " thus making health indeed " The poor man's riches , the rich man's bliss . " HEALTH FOR THE MILLION . CHAPTER I. THE SKIN . xxviii INTRODUCTION .
... no doctor but the sun and fresh air , and no other physic than temperance and exercise , " thus making health indeed " The poor man's riches , the rich man's bliss . " HEALTH FOR THE MILLION . CHAPTER I. THE SKIN . xxviii INTRODUCTION .
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acid action advantage animal appears arise attention avoid bath becomes better blood body breath called carried cause circumstances close clothing cold common consequence considerable constitution continued danger digestion disease drink early effects especially evils exercise exertion exposed extreme eyes feet frequently give habit hair hands head heart heat houses important increased influence injurious keep kind labour lead less light live lungs matter means mind morning nature necessary never night object observes occasions organs pain particular pass passions patient period persons pleasure possible practice preserve prevent produce proper quantity reason regard remarks removed render rise rule side skin sleep sometimes spirits stomach strength strong suffer sufficient surface taken teeth tion travelling various warm weak whole wine young
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Страница 270 - I care not, fortune, what you me deny ; You cannot rob me of free nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face, You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Страница 51 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Страница 233 - ... or book, describing the country where he traveleth, which will be a good key to his inquiry ; let him keep also a diary; let him not stay long in one city or town, more or less as the place deserveth, but not long...
Страница 232 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. That young men travel under some tutor or grave servant, I allow well...
Страница 100 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.
Страница 268 - A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Страница 100 - And sung their thankful hymns: 'tis sin, Nay, profanation, to keep in, Whenas a thousand virgins on this day Spring sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.
Страница 244 - William," the young man cried, " And pleasures with you pass away, And yet you lament not the days that are gone : Now tell me the reason, I pray."
Страница 244 - You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "And life must be hastening away; You are cheerful and love to converse upon death: Now tell me the reason, I pray.
Страница 232 - ... sit and hear causes ; and so of consistories ecclesiastic ; the churches and monasteries, with the monuments which are therein extant ; the walls and fortifications of cities and towns ; and so the havens and harbours, antiquities and ruins, libraries, colleges, disputations, and lectures where they are...