Word: sicking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...medicine of the first physicians. But the evidence we have does not at all bear out this supposition, for the records on the style show absolutely no trace of medical practice. The cures were simple miracles. The whole matter is very well illustrated by the present annual pilgrimages of sick people to the island of Tenos, to be healed at the shrine of the Madonna. A plan of Epidauros and a number of bas-reliefs were shown to the audience by means of the stereopticon...
...death rate for the most favored ages in the state at large. Thus it will be seen that Harvard college is in a peculiarly healthy position. It is impossible to ascertain exactly what the mortality of the students is in any given year, for when a man falls sick he leaves college, and the authorities may never know whether he recovers or dies. But it is safe to assert from the experience of the physicians practicing in Cambridge that the death rate in college is only about half as high as that of the general community of the same...
...representations contains a special reference to the life beyond the grave. All other monuments. however, represent merely common scenes of daily life, without any reference to death except that contained in the general atmosphere of sadness in the figures. There are very few stones on which either a sick or a dead person is represented...
...pole. After Leavitt had won the event handily, breaking the record, the measurers declared themselves much relieved that their decision had not affected the result. As to the Yale men's statement that Shearman lent Leavitt a pole last year, it is only necessary to state that Leavitt was sick and did not compete in the intercollegiate meeting...
Arrangements to collect old periodicals and newspapers and deliver them to the sick in the Boston City Hospital have been made by students. At least one ward can be supplied with reading matter. All magazines and periodicals will be acceptable, no matter how old, and will be called for on addressing R. L. Weeks, 74 Sacramento street...