A Century of Surgeons on Gonorrhoea, and on Strictures of the Urethra

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Geo. B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria Lane; Callow and Wilson, Princes Street, Soho; and T. and G. Underwood, 32 Fleet Street., 1825 - 184 עמודים
 

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עמוד 113 - Seville orange or lemon peel, three ounces, apothecaries' weight ; boiling water, a pint and a half ; infuse the peel for a night in a close vessel ; then strain the liquor ; let it stand to settle ; and having poured it off clear from the sediment, dissolve in it two pounds of double refined loaf sugar, and make it into a syrup with a gentle heat.
עמוד 129 - In the next place, cleanliness may be said to be the foster-mother of love. Beauty indeed most commonly produces that passion in the mind, but cleanliness preserves it. An indifferent face and person, kept in perpetual neatness, hath won many a heart from a pretty slattern. Age itself is not unamiable, while it is preserved clean and unsullied : like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel that is cankered with rust.
עמוד 117 - Pound very fine one pound of Jordan, and one ounce of bitter, almonds, in a marble mortar, with half a gill of orangeflower water to keep them from oiling ; then mix with them one pint of rose and one pint of spring-water ; rub it through a tamis cloth or lawn sieve, till the almonds are quite dry, which will reduce the quantity to about a quart : have ready three pints of clarified sugar or water, and boil it to a crack (which may be known by dipping your fingers into the...
עמוד 130 - Take of pure clean water quantum sufJicit, put it into a clean earthen or china basin, then take a clean linen cloth, dip it in that water, and apply it to the part affected, night and morning, or oftener, as occasion may require.
עמוד 25 - He concludes his observations by intimating " that undescribed diseases, resembling the venereal, are very numerous, and that what he has said is rather to be considered as hints for others to prosecute this inquiry further, than as a complete account of the subject.
עמוד 21 - ... that ever since the word Forsooth was banished for Madam, the word Woman has been discarded for Lady. And as there is now never a woman in England, I hope I may talk of women without offence to the ladies. What puts me in this present disposition to tell them their own, is, that in the holy week I very civilly desired all delinquents in point of chastity to make some atonement for their freedoms, by bestowing a charity upon the miserable wretches who languish in the lock hospital.
עמוד 112 - Take a couple of ounces of pearl barley, wash it clean with cold water, put it into half a pint of boiling water, and let it boil for five minutes ; pour off this water, and add to it two quarts of boiling water : boil it to two pints, and strain it. The above is simple barley water.
עמוד 130 - Take of fair clear water quantum sufficit ; put it into a clean earthen or china basin ; then take a clean linen cloth, dip it in that water, and apply it to the face night and morning, or oftener as occasion may require.
עמוד 7 - Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way.
עמוד 22 - A considerable number of the women, when discharged from the house, are under twenty years of age, and it is an invariable rule not to dismiss any woman (unless at her own desire or for misconduct) without some means being provided by which she may obtain a livelihood in an honest manner.

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