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... sponge , to wash . a child with ? A sponge - a large sponge . A sponge cleanses and gets into all the nooks , corners , and crevices of the skin more effectually than flannel . Besides , sponge * British and Foreign Medico - Chirurgical ...
... sponge , to wash . a child with ? A sponge - a large sponge . A sponge cleanses and gets into all the nooks , corners , and crevices of the skin more effectually than flannel . Besides , sponge * British and Foreign Medico - Chirurgical ...
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... sponge and with care . If there be any difficulty in removing the substance , gently rub it , by means of a flannel , with a little lard , or fresh - butter , or sweet - oil ; after the parts have been well smeared and gently rubbed ...
... sponge and with care . If there be any difficulty in removing the substance , gently rub it , by means of a flannel , with a little lard , or fresh - butter , or sweet - oil ; after the parts have been well smeared and gently rubbed ...
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... sponge and a little warm water frequently during the day , namely , each time after the bowels have been relieved . Cleanliness is one of the grandest incentives to health , and , therefore , cannot be too strongly insisted upon . If ...
... sponge and a little warm water frequently during the day , namely , each time after the bowels have been relieved . Cleanliness is one of the grandest incentives to health , and , therefore , cannot be too strongly insisted upon . If ...
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... sponge in hot water , ( as hot as the child can comfort- ably bear ; ascertain that it be not too hot by previously applying it to your own face ) and apply it for a few minutes to the bridge of the nose . As soon as the hardened mucus ...
... sponge in hot water , ( as hot as the child can comfort- ably bear ; ascertain that it be not too hot by previously applying it to your own face ) and apply it for a few minutes to the bridge of the nose . As soon as the hardened mucus ...
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... sponge should be filled with the water and squeezed over the head , so that the water may stream over the whole surface of the body . This should be rapidly done , and the child should be quickly dried with soft towels , and then ...
... sponge should be filled with the water and squeezed over the head , so that the water may stream over the whole surface of the body . This should be rapidly done , and the child should be quickly dried with soft towels , and then ...
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Page 217 - UNHAPPY White * ! while life was in its spring, And thy young Muse just waved her joyous wing, The spoiler came ; and all thy promise fair Has sought the grave, to sleep for ever there. Oh ! what a noble heart was here undone, When science...
Page 217 - And help'd to plant the wound that laid thee low: So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel; While the same plumage that had warm'd his nest . Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 217 - So the struck Eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 102 - tis a dull and endless strife : Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. And hark ! how blithe the throstle sings ! He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
Page 107 - ... mens sana in corpore sano" (a sound mind in a sound body).
Page 217 - Henry Kirke White died at Cambridge, in October, 1806, in consequence of too much exertion in the pursuit of studies that would have matured a mind which disease and poverty could not impair, and which death itself destroyed rather than subdued. His poems abound in such beauties as must impress the reader with the liveliest regret that so short a period was allotted to talents which would have dignified even the sacred functions he was destined to assume.
Page 96 - Were I a father, I should take a particular care to preserve my children from these little horrors of imagination, which they are apt to contract when they are young, and are not able to shake off when they are in years.
Page 212 - Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed. The breath of night's destructive to the hue Of every flower that blows. Go to the field, And ask the humble daisy why it sleeps Soon as the sun departs: Why close the eyes Of blossoms infinite, ere the still moon Her oriental veil puts off? Think why, Nor let the sweetest blossom be exposed That nature boasts, to night's unkindly damp.
Page 97 - The tear, down Childhood's cheek that flows, Is like the dew-drop on the rose ; When next the summer breeze conies by, And waves the bush, the flower is dry.
Page 200 - ... the exercise of the organs of the breast by singing contributes very much to defend them from those diseases to which the climate and other causes expose them. The Germans are seldom afflicted with consumption, nor have I ever known but one instance of spitting blood among them.