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Page 71 - ... and is without proper lodging or accommodation, or lodged in a room occupied by more than one family, or is on board any ship or vessel...
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Page 124 - The floating matter no longer appeared, having been burnt up by the flame. It was therefore of organic origin. I was by no means prepared for this result; for I had thought that the dust of our air was, in great part, inorganic and non-combustible.
Page 71 - Where any local authority are of opinion, on the certificate of their medical officer of health or of any other legally qualified medical practitioner, that the cleansing and disinfecting of any house or part thereof, and of any articles therein likely to retain infection, would tend to prevent or check infectious disease...
Page 71 - Gives, lends, sells, transmits, or exposes, without previous disinfection, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other things which have been exposed to infection from any such disorder, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds...
Page 124 - ... without repugnance place. the mouth at the illuminated focus of the electric beam and inhale the dirt revealed there. Nor is the disgust abolished by the reflection that, although we do not see the nastiness, we are churning it in our lungs every hour and minute of our lives. There is no respite to this contact with dirt ; and the wonder is, not that we should from time to time suffer from its presence, but that so small a portion of it would appear to be deadly to man.
Page 262 - Board of the Royal College of Physicians of London, and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ; late Examiner in Obstetric Medicine to the University of London, &c.
Page 63 - Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last, not always by the chief offenders, but paid by some one.
Page 199 - But within the next forty-eight hours there will be most likely an evacuation of the bowels once or possibly twice in the day; but nothing approaching to purgation ought ever to be permitted, and therefore the patient must be instructed, on the occurrence of the first loose motion, to withhold a pill, and to take only one in the morning and one in the evening. He then continues for a time his morning and evening pill, and is pleased to discover that so slender a medicament has such a decided effect....
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