Knowlton's, the use of preventive checks to population.
It is not in the nature of things," he says, "that any permanent and general improvement in the condition of the poor can be effected without an increase in the preventive checks to population.
Fort tells us that among nuns and consecrated women in convents, some erring sisters applied the preventive talismanic influence of a sacred shirt or girdle to suppress the manifestation of conventual irregularities of a sexual character.
This preventive measure is of such great importance that I have recommended for it an increased appropriation.
Another preventive measure of great economic and sanitary importance is the eradication of tuberculosis in cattle.
The 'moral check' is only preventive or negative, not a positive cause of superior vigour.
The fear of hell rarely produces any effect till a man is dying, and then inflicts great suffering, though it has been totally inefficient as a preventive at the time of temptation.
All the rabbits that received a preventive dose varying from 2 to 7 c.
The serum drawn off at each bleeding must be severely tested, which is done by gauging its antitoxic power in vitro, when mixed with venom, and also its preventive effect.
The preventive power may be very quickly tested by injecting a rabbit, in the marginal vein of the right ear for example, with 2 c.
Mystification and superstitious ideas play, as we see, a very great part in this preventive treatment, which is undergone by the natives of certain countries and snake-catchers or charmers.
Besides the importance of proper care and feeding of the cow as a preventive measure, attention should be given at once to relieve the newborn calf of its investing membrane and of any mucus that has collected in mouth or nostrils.
Pasteur originated and perfected a system of preventive inoculation against this disease which has greatly reduced the mortality in human subjects.
With some cattle diseases, such as anthrax, rinderpest, and pleuropneumonia, preventive inoculation is resorted to in some countries.
The true preventive of such conditions is to be found in a sound hygiene.
With these figures before us it is plain that the general introduction of preventive vaccination must be of material benefit to the cattle raisers in the infected districts.
Preventive inoculation is applicable to only a few maladies, and therefore its aid in the control of diseases is limited.
It is somewhat difficult to procure preventive treatment for cattle, especially when there are large numbers with little or no shelter.
At the same time it must be remembered that much greater success is to be looked for in the preventive treatment.
As anthrax is entirely different from blackleg, vaccine for the latter does not act as a preventive against the former.
If a breeding animal is too valuable to be killed, he should be subjected to preventive measures, as laid down under "Stone in the kidney," page 139.
He was largely instrumental in founding the Institute of Preventive Medicine now established at Chelsea and called by his name.
A scientific investigator should be as proud of discovering a preventive for colds as a scheme of wireless telegraphy.
Sir Septicus Jermyn, the famous physician, urged that the best preventive for colds was to keep warm.
It deals with prison, fallen, inebriate, andpreventive cases.
They say that they owe much of their remarkable success in those cases to a strict observance of such preventive methods for a period of three years.
Moreover, during their stay in hospital and afterwards, the Salvation Army does its best to impress on them certain moral teachings, and thus to make its work preventive as well as remedial.
The inmates are of all kinds, prison cases, preventive cases, fallen cases, drink cases.
Thus if a man threatened to fill up your well because it stood, as he claimed, on his land, you had no preventive remedy at law.
This promised to be one of them; so, as a preventive measure, I suggested luncheontime.
This preventive treatment has been attended with marked effect in the case of wounds received in war, which it is almost impossible to keep free from contamination.
That may be quite true,” returned his colleague of the Droite; “but the preventive is rather violent; some milder form of excitement might be invented for the ennui of Paris than that of taking her to Berlin for a distraction.
The future will recognize it not only as the best disinfectant, an all powerful preventive of disease, but also as a wonderful healer of disease.
Berkeley's claim for tar-water in smallpox was a double one, as a preventive or modifier, and as a cure.
In the same year Dr Blackburne published a treatise on the preventive aspect of the disease, with directions for checking the spread of it "in schools and families[1331].
Happily for viticulture, knowledge of the pests of the vine has made such advancement in recent years that practically all are now controlled by remedial or preventive measures.
The next morning a car carried us to Tarbert Point, where there is a pier not yet completed, and a Preventive station, and where the Shannon steamers touch, that ply between Kilrush and Limerick.
Disturbances in the mind are not anticipated, preventive measures are seldom taken, and there comes the trouble.
The preventive men cheered and pulled with a will.
All this while the preventive men were straining to get off two boats in pursuit; but, as you may guess, the free-traders did nothing to help and a great deal to impede.
Reputation has no charm for me, except as a preventive of starving.
About one o'clock I moaned and started, and then took a wing of the fowl and the rum, and it operated as a preventive for the after time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preventive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
