 | Sanford Moon Green - 1889 - 376 páginas
...PREVENTION OF CRIME. CHAPTER I. EDUCATION AS A MEANS OF PREVENTING CRIME. IT is a trite saying that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," and there are few that contain more truth and good, practical common sense than this. If our people were... | |
 | 1893 - 626 páginas
...victim from the very teeth of the destroyer, yet it is as true in this instance as in any other that "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure "; and who will not agree that to save a woman from the mental as well as physical suffering which attends... | |
 | 1894 - 1148 páginas
...from the »•ery teeth of the destroyer ; yet it is as true in this as in any other instance that "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," and who will not agree that to save a woman from the mental as well as physical suffering which attends... | |
 | 1894 - 632 páginas
...disease. Physicians are every day realizing more and more fully the truth of the familiar old adage, " An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," and never was the materies morbi of disease so earnestly sought for as now. Never was a thorough knowledge... | |
 | Canadian Forestry Association - 1900 - 578 páginas
...in the woods it is almost impossible to control it, and so we have been acting on the old saying, ' an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure,' and have always tried to stop the fires before they could get under much headway. One of the duties of... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - 1900 - 684 páginas
...these stables, the deaths falling to less than i per cent. The inference that is to be drawn is that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, " and if the surgeon would administer a prophylactic injection of the antitoxin in every case in which the... | |
 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session - 1902 - 622 páginas
...educated reason, to make religion and political economy co-operants in the alleviation of human suffering. You strike at the root of the matter, and seek to...ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." The Ohio Board of Charities was established in 1867, abolished in 1869, and reorganized in 1875 ; and... | |
 | 1902 - 992 páginas
...depend upon their audacity for the effect which they tire intended to produce ; as when we say that " an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." And so, when we read that " beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword,"... | |
 | Joseph McFarland - 1903 - 688 páginas
...less than i per cent. These observations were made upon more than 800 horses. The inference is that "an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," and if the surgeon would administer a prophylactic injection of tetanus antitoxin in every case in which... | |
 | Henry Edward Lane - 1904 - 186 páginas
...guarantee us a perfect cure, and that is Nature. According to the well-known but too often neglected proverb, "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure," get in time acquainted with the teachings of physiology and hygiene, shun all medicine-poisons, adopt... | |
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You strike at the root of the matter, and seek to devise ways and means by which many of the causes of suffering may be removed, and thus practically illustrate the old proverb, " An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. 
