Report of Committee on Social BettermentPresident's homes commission, 1908 - 281 pages |
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... digestion with the exception of nuclein are converted into soluble peptones or alkaline albuminates and readily absorbed as such ; they are the chief tissue formers of the muscles and tendons of the body , but apart from this purely ...
... digestion with the exception of nuclein are converted into soluble peptones or alkaline albuminates and readily absorbed as such ; they are the chief tissue formers of the muscles and tendons of the body , but apart from this purely ...
Page 14
... digestion and assimilation and like the meat - broths is useful in the dietary of sickness , provided we combine it with eggs , farinaceous food and small quantities ; of gelatin . The meat peptones and fluid meat , containing , as they ...
... digestion and assimilation and like the meat - broths is useful in the dietary of sickness , provided we combine it with eggs , farinaceous food and small quantities ; of gelatin . The meat peptones and fluid meat , containing , as they ...
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... digestion , especially with the conversion of starch into sugar , not to mention the laxative and diuretic properties . 8. The fact that 60 % of the body ... digestive derange- ments , depression of the nervous system , muscular weakness 15.
... digestion , especially with the conversion of starch into sugar , not to mention the laxative and diuretic properties . 8. The fact that 60 % of the body ... digestive derange- ments , depression of the nervous system , muscular weakness 15.
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... are enclosed in cells composed of a fibrous frame - work known as cellulose , and therefore more difficult to be acted upon by the digestive fluids . An excess of this cellulose usually excites undue peristaltic action 16.
... are enclosed in cells composed of a fibrous frame - work known as cellulose , and therefore more difficult to be acted upon by the digestive fluids . An excess of this cellulose usually excites undue peristaltic action 16.
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... digestive fluids . Broiling produces very much the same changes , except perhaps a more complete retention of the juices , extractives and salts . Fried meats are usually objectionable , unless they have been dropped into very hot fat ...
... digestive fluids . Broiling produces very much the same changes , except perhaps a more complete retention of the juices , extractives and salts . Fried meats are usually objectionable , unless they have been dropped into very hot fat ...
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Page 192 - ... 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 122 - 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 115 - 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 213 - 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 191 - 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 180 - 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 61 - 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...
Page 191 - ... legal restrictions governing the practice of medicine; or to dispense, or promote the use of, secret medicines, for if such nostrums are of real efficacy, any concealment regarding them is inconsistent with beneficence and professional liberality; and, if mystery alone can give them public notoriety, such craft implies either disgraceful ignorance or fraudulent avarice. It is highly reprehensible for physicians to give certificates attesting the efficacy of secret medicines, or other substances...