 I had hardly written the above sentence ten days ago when I was tumbled over by the heat with apoplexy: forty-three others were struck, all Europeans, and all dead within three hours except myself! I do not drink ! that is the secret : the sun had no...  The London Lancet - Pagina 1991859Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Francis Patrick Napier - 1857 - 484 pagina’s
...tumbled over by the heat with apoplexy: forty-three others were struck, all Europeans, and all dead within three hours except myself! I do not drink !...myself on a table, and luckily one of my staff came in, I think McMurdo. He called the doctors, two were with me in a twinkling, wet towels were rolled round... | |
 | 1861 - 774 pagina’s
...nerves be below par in particular ? Sir Charles Napier relates his experience thus : ' I was turn bled -over by the heat with apoplexy. Forty-three others...except myself. I do not drink — that is the secret.' Will Dr. Barclay, or the ingenious Saturday men, explain how that healthy condition of the blood and... | |
 | James Miller - 1862 - 150 pagina’s
...Power," p. 20, et 8cq, and p 121. t Op. Cit., p 117. * when describing the effects of a coup de snkil, " I was tumbled over by the heat with apoplexy. Forty-three...sun had no ally in the liquor amongst my brains." And I well remember the honest and humorous confession of a late eminent physician of this city, to... | |
 | James C. Street, Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - 1862 - 558 pagina’s
...Charles James Napier, the hero of Scinde, when speaking of a sunstroke from which he suffered, says, " I was tumbled over by the heat with apoplexy. Forty-three...myself ! I do not drink ! That is the secret. The sua had no ally in the liquor amongst my brains." The drinking habits of our soldiers in all foreign... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - 1862 - 796 pagina’s
...all dead except himself. Speaking of this wonderful escape, he attributes it to his temperate habits; "I do not drink, that is the secret; the sun had no ally in the liquor amongst my brains," but at the same time mentions another circumstance which he says " roused me from my lethargy as much... | |
 | 1870 - 830 pagina’s
...accessories." Sir Charles Napier, when serving in Sindh, says of an attack of insolation he suffered there : " I had hardly written the above sentence, ten days...drink! That is the secret. The sun had no ally in liquor among my brains." Martin gives it as his opinion that, by temperance in diet, with as little... | |
 | 1870 - 790 pagina’s
...written the above sentence, ten days ago, when I tumbled over by the heat with apoplexy; forty three others were struck, all Europeans, and all died within...not drink! That is the secret. The sun had no ally of liquor among my brains." Light clothing, the head and neck protected from the direct solar rays... | |
 | 1871 - 644 pagina’s
...accessories." Sir Charles Napier, when serving inSindh, says of an attack of insolation he suffered there : "I had hardly written the above sentence, ten days...drink! That is the secret. The sun had no ally in liquor among my brains. " Martin gives it as his opinion that, by temperance in diet, with as little... | |
 | 1871 - 928 pagina’s
...Napier, when serving in Sindh, says of an attack of insolation, or coup de soleil, he suffered there: "I was tumbled over by the heat with apoplexy ; forty-three...within three hours, except myself. I do not drink I That is the secret. The sun had no ally in liquor among my brains." Here we have a statement of the... | |
 | David Lewis (Magistrate of the City of Edinburgh.) - 1872 - 264 pagina’s
...Forty-three others were struck, all Euro1 Narrative of the Har of Jfiihaniatan, pp. 87, 88, 89. peans, and all died within three hours except myself! I do not drink, that is the secret." Important testimony in favour of abstinence has been furnished by an officer of the Bed River Expeditionary... | |
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