Report of the State Board of Health of Wisconsin ... 1887

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State Board of Health, 1888

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Страница 90 - Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss ? How tasteless then whatever can be given? Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health.
Страница 117 - Man can invent nothing in science or religion but falsehood; and all the truths which he discovers are but facts or laws which have emanated from the Creator.
Страница 18 - Board may prescribe, the number of persons attacked with any pestilential, contagious, or infectious disease, attended by such physician for the twenty-four hours next preceding, and the number of persons attended by such physician...
Страница 103 - The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what?
Страница 89 - Medicine. 1886, appropriate sanitary measures saved the lives of 298 persons, who, under the usual conditions and according to former epidemics, would have died of Diphtheria in a few localities. In Memphis the death rate has been reduced in six years from 35 per 1,000 to 2:3.8 per 1,000. In Chicago the death-rate has been reduced in the last five years from 26 per 1,000 to 19.46, a saving of nearly twenty thousand lives.
Страница 122 - With too much spirit to be e'er at ease ; With too much quickness ever to be taught ; With too much thinking to have common thought ; You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.
Страница 40 - Typhoid; as a matter of fact it exists to a greater or less extent in nearly all parts of the...
Страница 120 - Bitters," and to contain no alcohol. He fell in with an enterprising druggist of this city, who saw money in the project and embarked in it. At the suggestion of the latter, the " Indian " was struck out, and as the new medicine got sour by fermentation, it was concluded to call it " Vinegar Bitters," and to identify it with the movement against alcoholic drinks. The mountain herbs were thrust aside, and aloes, being a cheap bitter, was substituted. " Nine sick people out of ten," said the druggist,...
Страница 120 - Nine sick people out of ten," said the druggist, " will be cured by purging." Wherefore the aloes. So the cook became doctor, and the decoction became sour, and '' Doctor Walker's Vinegar Bitters " began their career in the newspapers.
Страница 18 - Second, that all public institutions, such as asylums, homes, hospitals, dispensaries, etc., be required to transmit to the Board of Health the names and addresses of all persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis within seven days of the time when such persons first come under observation.

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