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Title: Lectures on the physiological laws of life, hygiene, and a general outline of diseases peculiar to females ..
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Cunningham, Henry S., M.D. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Women Women
Publisher: Indianapolis, Ind., G. F. Borst & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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MENTAL TEMPERAMENT. Chakles Dickens. A knowledge of the various branches taught in schools,morals included, are not sufficient qualifications for any 56 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL LAWS OF teacher. They should be amply qualified to read fromthe book of nature what they have to deal with, andthe manner in which each little ones heart shall bereached, their weak points cultivated and their viciousnatures subdued. Teachers require such organizationsas will give them power and self-control sufficient forthem to put their own knowledge to use in controllingand managing their pupils. I tell you, ladies and gen-tlemen, much depends upon the teachers, as well as
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LYMPHATIC TEMPERAMENT.Louis the xviii.. of France. upon the parents efforts what kind of men and womenour children will develop into when • grown; andmuch, yes, very much, depends upon the parents whatkind of a being they procreate. In my lecture onphrenology I shall fully explain what I here allude toin connection with procreation. The lymphatic temperament is the phlegmatic tem-perament of the ancients. This temperament is dueto a predominance of the lymphatic system. The lym-phatics convey the lymph from all parts of the body, dis- LIFE AND HYGIENE. 57 charging it into the subclavian veins, whence it is con-veyed to the heart; the undue preponderance of lymphat-ics leads to an excessive secretion of watery fluids of thebody, and a consequent dilution of the blood, resultingin a sluggish circulation and a clogging up of the vitalfunctions. The muscles burdened continuously becomerelaxed or flabby; the action of the heart is slow, andthe brain, not being properly supplied with bloo

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