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A Book of Medical Discourses, in Two Parts
by Rebecca Lee CrumplerThe following pages contain a few simple appeals to common sense, and are addressed to mothers, nurses, and women generally. All honor is due to a far-seeing legislation which has recognized the importance of fitting woman for the great and natural office of nurse, or doctress of medicine; for by it facilities are offered to each member of a commun..
How to live - A manual of hygiene for use in the schools of the Philippine
by Adeline KnappIn America, where they make the best locomotive engines in the world, they say that the life of an engine is about twenty years. That is, when they build an engine, they know about how much work it will have to do and what usage it is likely to have. They know that the engine is strong enough to do such work and stand such usage for twenty years. S..
The Essays of Douglas Jerrold
by Douglas William JerroldMuch of Douglas Jerrold’s writing took essay form although he only applied the title to five short pieces which were added as Essays to The Chronicles of Clovernook in 1846. Those five pieces are included in this volume along with others from his collected works, and from among those scattered contributions to periodicals which have been brought to..
The Frozen North - An Account of Arctic Exploration for Use in Schools
by Edith HortonWhile abundant material has been put before children with the purpose of making them familiar with the history and industrial development of various parts of the known world, very little has been written to inform them of the work which is now being done in the comparatively unknown regions of the north, or of the history of the early discoveries w..
Floral Illustrations of the Seasons
by Margaret RoscoeThe present state of botanical knowledge renders it impossible for the Author of this Work to indulge in a hope, that she can add anything to the learning and research which distinguish the science: as a humble follower of those who have added so much to our information on these subjects, she would walk in their delightful paths, and gather some of..
Migration of Birds (1979)
by Frederick C. LincolnFrederick C. Lincoln's classic work on the "Migration of Birds" first appeared in 1935. It was revised in 1950 and has been out of print for several years, after selling over 140,000 copies. Unfilled requests by many individuals, clubs, and institutions prompted the Office of Conservation Education (now the Office of Public Affairs) in the U.S. Fis..
Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second)
by Harold Stanley JohnsonHaving found, after three weeks in our mobilization camp, that there was a great desire on the part of the officers and men of individual organizations to become acquainted with their co-workers, and realizing the necessity of personal contact for our mutual benefit to secure the co-ordination of each branch of the service into a unit of the highes..
A Class-Book of New Testament History
by G. F. MaclearThe present Volume forms a sequel to the Author’s Class-Book of Old Testament History, continuing the Narrative from the point at which it there ends, and carrying it on to the close of St Paul’s second imprisonment at Rome. In its preparation, as in that of the former Volume, the most recent and trustworthy Authorities1 have been consulted, notes ..