Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer said that consumption attacked some races more than others. The Irish and Germans were particularly subject to its unconquerable power. All people are aroused when cholera or small-pox is prevalent, and yet they take but few precautions against the greater evil of consumption. Alcohol, syphilis, want of pure air and good food are all productive of this terrible disease. Inherited consumption can often be cured by proper habits and regulations of life. When anyone is told to take fresh air for his consumptive troubles, he ought to keep out of doors all the time. We ought to make...
PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS. 1. The early History of Infinitesimal Calculus. 2. Discuss Clifford's Philosophy of the Pure Sciences. 3. Should men who bring no Mathematics be accepted for honors in Physics? 4. To what extent do Newton's Laws of Motions involve assumptions that can be tested by experiment, and to what extent are they matters of definition...
...army who have been obliged to go into hospitals owing to respiratory diseases, is remarkable. When consumption once takes hold of a man, it is almost impossible to shake it off. Its best cure is prevention. Fresh air is therefore essential, and plenty of exercise to keep the blood pure and the flow rapid...
...synopsis of Dr. Farnham's 9th lecture is as follows: the lungs, respiratory muscles, male and female type of respiration, quantity of air respired, importance of pure air, contaminations of the atmosphere...
...this disease can arise from physical exercise there can be no doubt. That it does frequently thus arise in healthy persons, I do not believe. In a long experience I have seen scarcely one case of organic disease of the heart which can be traced to amateur athletic sport, pure and simple, that is, if the man was healthy originally. The increased work in which the hypertrophy arises is probably in part the result of the increased frequency and force with which, in consequence of the respirating needs, the heart acts. But it is in part the result...