Word: skin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Lost. - A society constitution, in a roll covered with black oil-skin. A reward of $5.00 will be paid for the recovery, at Leavitt & Peirce...
Lost. - Private papers in a roll, covered with black oil skin. Finder please leave at Leavitt & Peirce...
...beginning to the end, and this, coupled with the recent action of the faculty in regard to personal supervision of student's work by instructors, seem to be slowly destroying many of the former evils which were so apparent in the Harvard curriculum. Such a remedy, however, is but skin deep. The evils of the system may be weakened by such attempted aims, but nothing stable can ever be accomplished until the marking system is destroyed...
...ammonia and alcoholic stimulants dangerous. The application of external warmth is excellent. Sprains and bruises are smaller injuries. A part that is sprained should not be used for an instant. In fractures, great care must be taken that the broken edge of bone shall not protrude through the skin. In all such cases, no regard should be paid to clothing; it should be cut off immediately, and not taken off. An injured arm must be both slung and tied firmly to the chest. In fractures, a joint is made; in dislocations, a joint is taken away. This affords a rough...
...extremes of life we are much more susceptible to the injurious effects of cold than in the intervening period. "Draughts" act by cooling a part of the body through the medium of the skin...