Health at Home: Or Hall's Family Doctor : Showing how to Invigorate and Preserve Health, Prolong Life, Cure Diseases, Understand the Physical Conditions of Maternity, and the Proper Management of Infants ...S.M. Betts & Company, 1873 - 798 ページ |
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761 ページ - ... you can, then spread it thinly on a dish, and place it in a slow oven ; if put in at night let it remain until the morning, when, if perfectly dry and crisp, it will be fit for grinding. The bran thus prepared must be ground in a fine mill...
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420 ページ - Consumption is not less rare among females in the country than in cities, in the present age. It was not so formerly. The declarations of grandmothers and old physicians go to show that, fifty years ago, consumption was hardly known in the rural districts. The winds whistled through the dwellings then, and the fire blazed and roared upon the hearth.
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420 ページ - ... mountains of the New England States, where God's pure air is wholly undefiled — are often victims of consumption. How is this explained? Look into their bedrooms; examine into their daily habits of life ; and the cause is made plain. Old-fashioned fireplaces are boarded up ; rubber...