Report of Committee on social bettermentPresident's Homes Commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... human organism is made up of about 60 % of water , 19 % of protein compounds , 15 % of fats and 6 % of mineral salts , all of which are sooner or later consumed , involving certain expenditures which must be covered if health and life ...
... human organism is made up of about 60 % of water , 19 % of protein compounds , 15 % of fats and 6 % of mineral salts , all of which are sooner or later consumed , involving certain expenditures which must be covered if health and life ...
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... human milk ; it then can be condensed to about one - third of its original volume and the proportions restored by proper dilution just before using it for infant feeding . WHEY is the sernm or watery part of the milk which remains after ...
... human milk ; it then can be condensed to about one - third of its original volume and the proportions restored by proper dilution just before using it for infant feeding . WHEY is the sernm or watery part of the milk which remains after ...
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... human body needs food , air , and water for its growth and main- tenance just as do all living things . An engine can not run a machine or draw a train unless it has fuel , which is converted into energy or , as we say , which is used ...
... human body needs food , air , and water for its growth and main- tenance just as do all living things . An engine can not run a machine or draw a train unless it has fuel , which is converted into energy or , as we say , which is used ...
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... human machine it is some- thing the same . All ordinary foods are useful when rightly combined and each country will naturally make use of the food supply which may be most easily and economically produced . A study of the various ...
... human machine it is some- thing the same . All ordinary foods are useful when rightly combined and each country will naturally make use of the food supply which may be most easily and economically produced . A study of the various ...
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... human race is 33,000,000 of persons . A fourth of the race die before completing their 8th year , and one - half before the end of the 17th year , but the average duration of life is about 38 to 40 years . Not more than one person in ...
... human race is 33,000,000 of persons . A fourth of the race die before completing their 8th year , and one - half before the end of the 17th year , but the average duration of life is about 38 to 40 years . Not more than one person in ...
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Page 194 - ... Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the 'package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package or if...
Page 250 - Such register shall be open for inspection to the said commissioners, their officers and agents, on every day, except Sundays and legal holidays, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon.
Page 64 - You have erased from the calendar of human afflictions one of its greatest. Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived : future nations will know by history only that the loathsome smallpox has existed, and by you has been extirpated.
Page 124 - An ordinance to revise, consolidate, and amend the ordinances of the board of health, to declare what shall be deemed nuisances injurious to health and to provide for the removal thereof...
Page 117 - His computations clearly indicate that where one death from typhoid fever has been avoided by the use of a better water, a certain number of deaths, probably two or three, from other causes have been avoided.
Page 215 - India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints...
Page 193 - It is equally derogatory to professional character for physicians to hold patents for any surgical instruments or medicines; to accept rebates on prescriptions or surgical appliances; to assist unqualified persons to evade the legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine...
Page 182 - From and after the passage of this act no pharmacist, druggist, apothecary, or other person shall refill, more than once, prescriptions containing opium or morphine or preparations of either in which the dose of opium shall exceed one-fourth grain or morphine one-twentieth grain, except with the verbal or written order of a physician.
Page 63 - In diseases like smallpox and scarlet fever, in which the infectious agent is given off from the entire surface of the body, occasional ablutions with Labarraque's Solution, diluted with twenty parts of water, will be more suitable than the stronger solution above recommended.
Page 253 - It shall be entitled to charge and receive upon each loan made by it without the actual delivery to it of the property pledged or mortgaged...