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...well masticated, and the proportion of vegetable and animal foods eaten carefully considered. When a portion of food, or drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle...
...shall then be able to consider some of the causes which produce disease, and the means by which we may prevent the action of some of these causes. The constitution a person inherits will play a large part in determining what degree of health he shall have, for men resist the influences to which they are exposed with very different results. Another subject of the very greatest importance to health is food. Exercise for persons of sedentary habits is of prime importance. Cleanliness and sleep are too well known as requirements of good health to need much comment. We want...
...Resist Time's changing powers...
...several youths take two or three spoons; and one Princeton man, under the encouraging smile of his "cow," slipped spoon after spoon to the inside pocket of his coat. Quite an extensive barter trade is carried on between West Point and Poughkeepsie-spoons for bell buttons. I could not resist, and took one myself...
...have been interested in looking over a list of questions discussed at Harvard in ante-revolutionary times by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts. As early as 1743, Samuel Adams chose the question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He argued that it was lawful, and thirty years later he stood first in advocating such measures. In 1765 Elbridge Gerry, who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, answered the following question in the affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless...