Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume 7

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1862

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Page 18 - IN forming the plan of these penitentiary houses, the principal objects have been, by sobriety, cleanliness, and medical assistance ; by a regular series of labour, by solitary confinement during the intervals of work, and by due religious instruction, to preserve and amend the health of the unhappy offenders, to inure them to habits of industry, to guard them from pernicious company, to accustom them to serious reflection, and to teach them both the principles and practice of every Christian and...
Page 239 - I have described, it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives; whereas it ought properly to hold itself indifferently disposed towards both alike. Indeed in the establishment of any true axiom, the negative instance is the more forcible of the two.
Page 239 - But with far more subtlety does this mischief insinuate itself into philosophy and the sciences; in which the first conclusion colours and brings into conformity with itself all that come after, though far sounder and better.
Page 159 - ... to the European troops at the station as a substitute for the ration of rice. I may add, that this was the only suggestion available under the circumstances, for it was found impossible to supply meat of a better description, and all the exertion of the Brigadier commanding failed to procure other kinds of vegetables, as potatoes, turnips, carrots, sweet potatoes, &c.
Page 20 - For, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband...
Page 25 - Now allowing fifteen inspirations per minute for a man, he will vitiate about 300 cubic inches, or nearly one-sixth of a cubic foot of atmospheric air, and this, by mingling as it escapes with several times as much, renders at least two cubic feet of air unfit for respiration.
Page 27 - M. Leblanc states, that the odour of the air at the top of the ventilator of a crowded room is of so noxious a character, that it is dangerous to be exposed to it even for a short time.
Page 151 - Past millions of scattered population it moves innocuous ; through the unpolluted atmosphere of cleanly districts it migrates silently without a blow — that which it can kindle into poison lies not there. To the foul, damp breath of low-lying cities it comes like a spark to powder. Here is contained that which it can swiftly make...
Page 118 - From the iris remaining sensitive, the pupil may vary in size according to the amount of light to which the eye is exposed, but with a fixed amount of light it is larger during the delirium than it is with the same amount of light after recovery.
Page 144 - One science only can one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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