The fangs, the claws, the whiskers are potent charms, valuable for love philters and prophylactics against demoniacal influence, the Evil Eye, disease and death.
This theory that the glance may be neutralized or avoided by some blot or imperfection is the basis of many of the popular remedies or prophylactics invented with the object of averting its influence.
Another series of prophylactics depends on the idea of the separable soul or that spirits are always fluttering in the air round a person's head.
The agents supposed to be prophylactics are those also resorted to as therapeutic remedies.
Indeed, nature herself seems to have pointed them out as prophylactics against the diseases of hot weather.
The employment of aromatics as prophylactics is not less beneficial in children than in adults.
I have no fear of either, when judiciously employed; and as prophylactics in cholera, I do not think their place can be supplied.
The almost universal dependence upon amulets, as prophylactics or healing agencies, originated through popular ignorance and fear.
Like amulets, they were formerly worn on the body, either as prophylactics or as healing agents.
Therefore, I assert that the good that would come from the use of prophylactics by those who do not recognize moral control would be far more significant than the fact that venereal prophylactics might encourage immorality.
Venereal prophylactics may increase promiscuity of some unmoral and immoral men, but if universally and scientifically used by such men, there would be little or no infection of innocent women and children.
Those who would use prophylactics would be no worse morally than they were before, but society would gain hygienically.
Matthew Arnold, as every one knows, used to preach the use of these masterpieces as prophylactics of taste.
Prophylactics Prophylactics are remedies employed to prevent the attack of any particular disease, such as quinine, &c.
There was need of the manufacture of great quantities of virus with which to combat it, and of other common and necessary serums and prophylactics as well.
The Bureau of Science manufactured the sera and prophylactics required by the Bureau of Health in its work.
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