 | Samuel Thomson - 1835 - 428 pagina’s
...powers, not forgetting to keep up the inward heat, by giving occasionally, No. 2. 9. Keep always in mind, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure; and give medicine on the first appearance of disorder, before it becomes seated; for it may be then... | |
 | Thomas Guthrie - 1847 - 52 pagina’s
...profess to have a better knowledge than that which belongs to the world. V\Te forgot that old proverb, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, — that that is the truest wisdom which advises the overcoming of the beginnings of evil. It may cost... | |
 | 1851 - 316 pagina’s
...health, by the observance of which this disease mny, with almost inevitable certainty, be prevented? That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is nowhere in the wide world more trus than iu regard to this disease. How much easier and better it... | |
 | Luther Calvin Saxton - 1851 - 600 pagina’s
...principles thus taught by the divine art. Natural and moral philosophy both agree in the doctrine, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. And if we would preserve the morals of youth, they must be brought habitually in contact with moral... | |
 | Kentucky State Medical Society - 1851 - 394 pagina’s
...Society promises to be. Our State is yet young;—we have no overgrown citiea. It is. an old adage that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Now, therefore, is the time to engraft on the chartersof our towns and cities, provisions which shall... | |
 | John A. Gere - 1851 - 172 pagina’s
...there is occasion for it, and always with authoritative emphasis. In this case, as in many others, " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure ;" as it is much easier to suppress a fit of crying on the appearance of its first symptoms, than to arrest... | |
 | Erastus Edgerton Marcy - 1852 - 660 pagina’s
...course adopted, however, was a prudent and safe one, and I should most certainly do the same again under similar circumstances, on the principle "that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." As the matter actually turned out, I was tormented with a painful limb for... | |
 | Alexander Marjoribanks - 1853 - 504 pagina’s
...peruse them, and have been afflicted with gout, that there is a great deal of truth in the trite maxim that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." Gout is produced by a certain acidity of the stomach, frequently caused by over-indulgence of some... | |
 | David Merrill - 1855 - 316 pagina’s
...sin, even on my own principles — a sin which I fear will go far to the ruin of many souls. I know that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," — that it is easier to keep ten men from becoming drunkards than to reform one. A society is formed... | |
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We forget that old proverb, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, — that that is the truest wisdom which advises the overcoming of the beginnings of evil. 
