Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 9

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1872
 

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Page 119 - His remark calls to my mind the day which is to come, when one shall chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight.
Page 119 - A little more sleep, a little more slumber, a little " more folding of the hands to sleep.
Page 59 - The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
Page 96 - Papers appropriate to the several sections, in order to secure consideration and action, must be sent -to the secretary of the appropriate section at least one month before the meeting which is to act upon them. It shall be the duty of the secretary to whom such papers are sent to examine them with care, and, with the advice of the chairman of his section, to determine the time and order of their presentation, and give due notice of the same.
Page 218 - ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover.
Page 67 - Show me a house without children, and, ten to one, you show me an abode dreary in its loneliness, disturbed by jealousy or by estrangement, distasteful from wayward caprice or from unlovable eccentricity.
Page 218 - The havoc of the plague had been far more rapid : but the plague had visited our shores only once or twice within living memory; and the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken...
Page 46 - CANADENSIS in some affections of the rectum, vagina and cervix uteri. I have used it considerably diluted, as a vaginal wash, with great success ; but I prefer to apply it to the os tincse on cotton wool, either pure or mixed with glycerine, or glycerine and rose water.
Page 201 - When digitalis, or digitaline, is administered for some time to a man in full possession of sexual powers, these become gradually weakened, the propensities disappear, formation of the liquor seminis diminishes, and may at last cease altogether. The anaphrodisiac properties of the drug are the secret of its good effects in spermatorrhea.
Page 59 - Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord : and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man ; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them : they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

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