Epidemic Cholera: Its Mission and Mystery, Haunts and Havocs, Pathology and Treatment : with Remarks on the Question of Contagion, the Influence of Fear, and Hurried and Delayed IntermentsCarleton, 1866 - 120 pages |
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Page 54 - Then mark the cloven sphere that holds All thought in its mysterious folds, That feels sensation's faintest thrill, And flashes forth the sovereign will ; Think on the stormy world that dwells Locked in its dim and clustering cells ! The lightning gleams of power it sheds Along its hollow glassy threads.
Page 54 - Whose streams of brightening purple rush Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart. No rest that throbbing slave may ask...
Page 54 - Not in the world of light alone, Where God has built His blazing throne, Nor yet alone in earth below, With belted seas that come and go, And endless isles of sunlit green, Is all thy Maker's glory seen : Look in upon thy wondrous frame, — Eternal wisdom still the same...
Page 54 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, Whose streams of brightening purple rush Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.
Page 10 - A cup to the dead already — Hurrah for the next that dies! Who dreads to the dust returning ? Who shrinks from the sable shore, Where the high and haughty yearning Of the soul shall sing no more?
Page 10 - The world is a world of lies: A cup to the dead already — And hurrah for the next that dies!
Page 117 - ... which are called seeds or ova, cryptogamic or animalcular, accordingas the fancy of the theorist inclines him to adopt a vegetable or an animal nomenclature. But in this, as in many other cases, it is easier to trace an analogy, or to assume a cause, than it is "to prevent an effect. Although inquirers have been indefatigable in their attempts to enlighten the world on the means of ridding ourselves of the presence of the various...
Page 10 - There's many a cheek that's sunk; But soon, though our hearts are breaking, They'll burn with the wine we've drunk. So stand to your glasses steady, 'Tis here the revival lies; A cup to the dead already— Hurrah for the next that dies!
Page 95 - There is perhaps no question in the whole range of sanitary police, on which so many and such irrefragable facts can be brought to bear, as on this ; derived too from the most authentic and recent sources. Seven hundred and...
Page 115 - Paris, while it occupi- d half a year in going round by England. The epidemic now or lately prevailing in Europe appears to date back at least nine months, at which time it existed among the caravans of pilgrims visiting or returning from the city of Mecca. In the middle of May last it was at Alexandria and Cairo, in June at Constantinople, Ancona and Marseilles, and in November at Paris, Havre and other European cities. " Thus it appears that cholera has...