Among the most efficient preventives may be named a spare diet (amounting to actual starvation in very plethoric, heavy-milking cows) for a week before calving and at least four days after.
The special value of medicated salts advertised under various trade names aspreventives against worms is problematical.
Another question is this: Since the use of preventives is available to both sections alike, the Doctor accounts for the supposed natural disproportion by assuming that the better classes restrain themselves.
The Birth-rate Commissioners stated that the use of preventives was having a most injurious effect upon the health of the women who used them.
We are strongly of the opinion that the diminished birth-rate does not account for the increase in the number of criminals and defectives further than that the use of preventives discloses a species of criminality.
In the line of preventives and remedies there is nothing better than clean cultivation about the trees, and annual examination of each tree early in summer and the crushing of every borer found.
He got nowt for his pains this time, maister, and if there's one thing I do like to see, 'tis the preventives fooled.
Numerous remedies and preventives have been recommended, by those who suppose they have tried them with success.
It is very consoling in the midst of so much that is depressing, that the preventives recommended against the cholera are so agreeable.
A large part of the business is carried on by the means of medicines advertised in obscure but intelligible terms as embryo-destroyers or preventives of conception.
Remember that the thousands of preventives which are advertised in papers, private circulars, etc.
That bleeding and purging are considered as preventives by people in general, I know perfectly; but, like many other popular opinions, the thing which is believed requires first to be proved ere it becomes truth.
For at night the sodjers canna see onything, and the Preventives are apt to be lookin' the ither road.
Besides, in countries where snow abounds, these little marauders are elevated above the wrappings, and have fair play at the unprotected parts of the tree--on this account another class of preventives has been adopted.
It appears to act strongly as an antiferment, and Dr Calvert states that it is one of the most powerful preventives of putrefaction with which he is acquainted.
The best preventives of chilblains are woollen socks or stockings, good waterproof shoes, woollen gloves, exercise, and friction.
The poorer middle classes use preventives recommended by their friends; these preventives sometimes succeed, sometimes fail, and sometimes ruin the woman's health.
The Chinch Bug: A general Summary of its History, Habits, Enemies, and of the Remedies and Preventives to be used against it.
The following remedies and preventives will prove efficient in checking or preventing the work of these pests.
And indeed there's more chance that Israel will put a stop to the Free-trading than all the preventives in the land.
The throng of men pressing from the shore to the lugger wavered; their rear was being attacked; the preventives must be upon them!
And the preventives have bin paying surprise visits down in the village.
There's no preventives on the prowl, or we'd have heard afore now from Totley Point or Laxted Cove.
Service is also one of the surest preventives from wandering.
Timothy knew the Scriptures, and a familiarity with God's Word is one of the best preventives in the case of drifting.
Muscular strength comes from bodily activity; hence, one of the best preventives of spinal curvature is daily exercise in the open air.
Sunshine and cleanliness are undoubtedly the best and cheapest preventives against disease.
It is the Protestant or agnostic American who too often uses one of the preventives of conception.
It is true that the first cause (disease) results in many women being barren, but I believe that you will agree with me that the last two causes, preventives of conception and abortion, are the two chief causes.
Disease, preventives of conception, and abortion form the trinity of responsibility in this grave condition.
Built into walls or placed on the threshold of stables, thunderbolts are capital preventives of fire or other damage, though not perhaps in this respect quite equal to a rusty horseshoe from a prehistoric battlefield.
Quassia and aloes are also well-known preventives of fly or blight in gardens.
I think that wood-ashes and bone-dust are excellent preventivesof burning or sun-scalding.
One of the best preventives is to keep the soil under cultivation, for this beetle rarely lays its eggs in loose soil, preferring old meadows and moist, loamy, sodded land; the larvae are equally fond of grass roots.
Synopsis of Contents: Injurious insects, with preventives and remedies.
But these preventivesare all based upon artificial and systematic suppression of the increase of population.
It is true that Malthus and others after him have proposed to substitute for the repressive law of misery certain preventives of over-population.
I knew then that this was the watcher of a smugglers' still; for let the gang o' Preventives do their worst, whisky would still be made in the hills.
It would just be that lass that told us about thePreventives lying in the cove near the Snib, and she was sore feart a lad Ronny McKinnon would be transported.
Charms were used, as preventives against the bites of serpents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preventives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
