| Noël Antoine Pluche - 1766 - 430 pages
...Matters of Fact ; and it is in particular an unqueftionable Truth, that the Element of Fire refides in the Air we breathe, in the Water we drink, and in the Earth which nourifhes us. The Air, when deprived of Fire in receding from the Earth, becomes intolerable... | |
| Bible Christians - 1870 - 602 pages
...liquors drink a great deal of poison. " Ah," say some, " but is there not alcohol in almost everything, in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the bread we eat P " No ! we have in these things the elements of alcohol, hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon;... | |
| George Miller Beard - 1871 - 188 pages
...brainworkers. There is poison in the_garden_lettuce and in the luscious vegetable. There is poison in the air we breathe ; in the water we drink ; and in the milk which the infant draws from its mother's breast. Poison, therefore, comes to us in the stormy... | |
| 1871
...the most important of these wonder-working elements is oxygen. This element is omnipresent, existing in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the solid fabric of the earth on which we tread. Between one-half and two-thirds of the whole material... | |
| British Homoeopathic Society - 1873 - 692 pages
...homceopathists of the fallacy of the theory of high dilution, because the dilution is already made — in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the food we eat." Although, ™,,o,.<-,cai rule, Dr. Massy has kept to tinctures and triturapower, yet... | |
| John Morris (author of The new nation.) - 1880 - 536 pages
...knows the purpose of their constant evolutions, the •countless forms of life and beauty, existing in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the solid earth we walk on, for an insect once seen through a microscope becomes an object to be admired... | |
| 1885 - 428 pages
...life, propagation, and growth are favored by suitable soil and surroundings. These germs may exist in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the milk or solid food we eat, and it is by these avenues — the lungs and stomach — that they are believed... | |
| 1885 - 120 pages
...halfminute, to the heart, bringing its portion of that which is worn out, or has been rejected as worthless. In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the food we eat, must be found all the constituents of bone and muscle, blood and brain. If the supply... | |
| Vermont State Medical Society - 1886 - 812 pages
...also settled the fact that we are surrounded by germ life. There can be no question about their being in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, and in the food we eat; they permeate the most vital parts of our system. If the "germ theory" is true there can... | |
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