Three weeks in wet sheets, the diary and doings of a moist visitor to Malvern [J. Leech. Repr. from the Bristol times].1851 |
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Page 38 - And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon.
Page iv - THERE is not in the wide world a valley so sweet, As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet ; Oh ! the last rays of feeling and life must depart, Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.
Page 54 - Add to which, that the quietude of the brain has freed the viscera from irritations which it sends to them in the ordinary progress of chronic disease, and thus they, too, are in the best condition for re-acting on the external application of cold. The whole body has been rested, its organic powers have been accumulated, and it can now respond to the stimulus to be applied to its external surface. Accordingly, the shallow or sheet bath is applied immediately, at an appropriate temperature, and the...
Page 70 - It was, I ween, a lovely spot of ground ; And there a season atween June and May, Half prankt with spring, with summer half imbrowned, A listless climate made, where, sooth to say, No living wight could work, ne cared even for play.
Page 19 - ... of their maladies, or the rationale of the cure. Blind faith and implicit obedience were required of them. He early adopted the practice of addressing the reason and enlisting the moral sympathies of his patients, in every case in which this appeared to him practicable. He preferred the intelligent co-operation of a patient in the measures necessary for the restoration of his health, to mere observance of rules ; and therefore communicated as much, of the nature of the disease as could be stated...
Page 19 - Dr. Combe entered the medical profession, it was common for practising physicians simply to prescribe medicines, and to lay down dietetic rules to be observed by their patients, without explaining to them the nature of their maladies, or the rationale of the cure. Blind faith and implicit obedience were required of them. He early adopted the practice of addressing the reason and enlisting the moral sympathies of his patients, in every case in which this appeared to him practicable. He preferred the...
Page 70 - O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease with grace. This done, right fain, Sir porter sat him down, and turn'd to sleep again.
Page 36 - The blood-vessels of the skin contract in the first instance, and subsequently relax, admitting More blood into their calibre ; a double action, which is reiterated by the friction, until a good amount of blood is fixed in the skin, to be maintained by subsequent exercise. But besides, this stimulating impression is made upon the Myriads of nerves of animal life spread over the skin, and derived from the brain and spinal cord, modifies the circulation in these last, and, through them, affects the...
Page 71 - XXIX Strait of these endless Numbers, swarming round, As thick as idle Motes in sunny Ray, Not one eftsoons in View was to be found, But every Man stroll'd off his own glad Way.
Page 28 - ... host is cutting you a slice of Southdown haunch ; this, with jelly and kidney beans, is set in a ferment with a couple of glasses of champagne, to which a couple of glasses of hock or sauterne.are added.