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" I understand, according to the old adage, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure... "
The United States of America: A Pictorial History of the American Nation ... - Page 366
1906
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New Guide to Health Or Botanic Family Physician: Containing a Complete ...

Samuel Thomson - Botanists - 1835 - 428 pages
...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 easily...
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Report, Volume 13, Parts 1837-1851

Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the City of New-York - 1838 - 784 pages
...value, than the whole expense of the Institution from its origin. The adage in relation to health, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is emphatically true in morals and in systems for the prevention of crimes. We do not urge other considerations,...
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The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Volume 1

Medicine - 1841 - 562 pages
...requiring medical attention in which the trite adage is more truly verified than in this accident — an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure: — and this position has been, at all times, justly appreciated by those alive to the result; and many efforts...
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A Plea for Ragged Schools; Or, Prevention Better Than Cure

Thomas Guthrie - Charity-Schools - 1847 - 52 pages
...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...
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Fall of Poland: Containing an Analytical and a Philosophical ..., Volume 1

Luther Calvin Saxton - Poland - 1851 - 600 pages
...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 principles,...
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Fall of Poland: Containing an Analytical and a Philosophical ..., Volume 2

Luther Calvin Saxton - Poland - 1851 - 638 pages
...founders of our government, the almost divine principle of frequently changing the officers of state. That an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, is an elementary principle in the science of government, as well as in physio. This republican principle,...
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Transactions of the Kentucky State Medical Society ...

Kentucky State Medical Society - 1851 - 394 pages
...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...
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The Water-cure Journal, Volumes 11-12

1851 - 316 pages
...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...
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Travels in South and North America

Alexander Marjoribanks - America - 1853 - 504 pages
...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...
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Sermons

David Merrill - Congregational churches - 1855 - 316 pages
...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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