 | Josiah Freeman Bumstead - Readers (Primary) - 1843 - 178 pages
...Deborah would say ; you know nothing about the matter ; depend upon it, Ellen, as I have often told you, an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. LESSON LI. EVENING FAREWELL. A Child's Address to all around, before saying his Evening Prayer, and... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - Gynecology - 1848 - 716 pages
...occasional I say, but those occasions are so rare, that I repeat, I confidently expect to obviate them. As an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure, I hope, when you come to practise, you will prevent hemorrhages in this way. Yet, if a flooding has... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - Generative organs, Female - 1851 - 734 pages
...occasions such disappointment has arisen from my having had an effete drug, instead of a good one. As an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure, I hope, when you come to practice, you will prevent hemorrhages in this way. Yet, if a flooding has... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1851 - 542 pages
...friends 'of education to make an earnest effort to save these children from destruction? The adage, " An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure," applies with great force in this connection. If children will attend school regularly, the reasonable... | |
 | Larkin Baker Coles - Health - 1851 - 274 pages
...sufferings, when it is too late to make amends. They practically consider the old proverb to be obsolete, "An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." They go on with their unnatural indulgences, undermining their physical vitality, until Nature, unable... | |
 | Charles Delucena Meigs - 1854 - 710 pages
...occasions such disappointment has arisen from my having had an effete drug, instead of a good one. As an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure, I hope, when you come to practice, you will prevent hemorrhages in this way. Yet, if a flooding has... | |
 | Ohio state medical society - Medicine - 1860 - 288 pages
...the healing balm. Again, he is responsible to the community in health. It is an old proverb that " an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." Prevention as well as cure is wanted; prophylactics as well as therapeutics. The physician should be... | |
 | Dentistry - 1869 - 404 pages
...development of teeth. The prevention of deformity or disease, is of more importance than its treatment. " An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure." Give modestly, information as to the proper time of the formation and the proper aliment of the dental... | |
 | 1869 - 632 pages
...of prisoners, as well as in the education of the children of the State, to act on the principle that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. The prisoners of our country are a direct expense of some millions of dollars a year, and the indirect... | |
 | Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1870 - 458 pages
...anchylosis of the joint, as was seen in the case of the " cured " Ringbone, Figure 4. The old adage that " an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure," is constantly verified in stock raising. And here let me impress upon your minds that the only way... | |
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Here, more than in any other area, "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure. 
