We have seen in the Book of Medicine already that times were very different 100 years ago.  The infant mortality rate was much much higher and life expectancy was much lower as well.

As such people had a much different perspective.  They often distanced their emotions just a bit from their children.  Furthermore, their concerns for the hereafter were much more immediate.  Middle age today was much older today than middle age 100 years ago.  This may have been part of the reason why people had a more pious view on life.

They lost their loved ones more often and sooner in life.

They worked to build up big families so that the family could continue to survive.  We often limit family size for economic reasons.  We buy life insurance from companies like our sponsor, Globe Insurance.  They kept family grave plots.

Things were much different back then and we will explore these even more as we move past the anatomy section of the Book of Medicine and get it to the prognosis and care of many of the ailments that were common 100 years ago.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Buying Prescription Drugs Online Through an Escrow Agency
  
  

  If you have ever considered or tried purchasing prescription drugs online or even supplements, the internet is a very difficult place.  You can never really be certain if a company will actually deliver what you order or whether they will deliver what they promise. 

  Enter the Canada Pharmacy Escrow Service which basically enables you to

  1. shop for drugs and supplements online
  2. Review prices from pharamacies around the world
  3. Place orders through those pharmacies
  4. Provide a prescription or have a medical review performed online
  5. Get the drugs or supplements shipped to you.
  6. If a pharmacy does not deliver or the shipment is lost (remember this is international) then the escrow service protects you and reships the order at no additional cost.

  This basically opens up the pharmacies around the world to people shopping for the best prices.  It is an interesting business application to a problem that was created by the internet and the flattening of the world economy.

  More an more escrow services in general are finding new and useful applications to a number of areas on the internet, medicine is just one of them, but given skyrocketing price of medicine prices around the world, this offers a solution of enabling customers to benefit from price arbitrage (buying from whatever jurisdiction or pharmacy offers the lowest price).

• How to Destroy the Breeding places of Mosquitoes Part 4
  
  

  How to Destroy the breeding places of mosquitoes.-every citizen should use his influence to have every village, city and state corporation appropriate money to eliminate all marshes by filling with soil, drain all stagnant streams and have kerosene oil spread on the surface of lakes, ponds or any other body of standing water, no matter how small. The object of using oil as to prevent the “wrigglers” and “tumblers” from getting air, for after leaving the eggs, they require air to develop. A film of oil prevents the “wrigglers” from getting the needed air and they are destroyed by choking. 1 ounce of oil is sufficient to cover 15 square feet of water. Oil should be applied and removed once a week during the breeding season. In standing water must be kept, screen the containers or keep tightly covered, so the females cannot deposit their eggs. Screen all doors and windows. But screams up early in the spring.

  So finally in the last paragraph the author drops a bombshell about who actually destroy mosquitoes. Surprisingly, the recommended procedure is to essentially contaminate and poison lake streams and cons with oil. While that recommendation might possibly stifle the development of mosquitoes, which I am actually somewhat doubtful about, it would also stifle the health of anyone that wanted to benefit from drinking that water or any animals for that matter. So this case the concept of position do no harm seems to trigger a scenario where this remedy is worse than the original problem, even though the author did not understand this concept 100 years ago probably.  Today, it is common knowledge and even a oil futures broker would be hard pressed to recommend this tactic.

• Boiled Water
  
  

  water boiling in a glass bowl, common now, but not then like HDMI splitter’s today.  slightly new and archaic at the same time…

  Boiled Water.-The insipid taste of water which has been boiled is due to the absence of air. Many gases besides air may be artificially or naturally mingled with water, and some, like ammonia or nitric acid, are freely soluble in it. In sea-water, the presence of common salt, with small quantities of sulphate of soda or Glauber’s salt, and, of the compound of magnesia and chlorine, called chloride of magnesium, render it entirely unfit for drinking, as many a hapless shipwrecked sailor has found to his cost.