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:
- How to Destroy the Breeding places of Mosquitoes-part 2
How to Destroy the breeding places of Mosquitoes-(cont).-every individual should do everything possible to get rid of all breeding places. Examine your premises and be sure that they are free from any vessels, etc., which will receive and contain still water for one week or longer, that will afford a breeding place for mosquitoes. A loose brick causing a depression in the pavement, defective plumbing, cups, buckets, barrels, water pans and chicken yards, etc., a horse trough, a gutter on the ease of a row for house, models, barrels, tin cans, water spouts out of repair or clogged up and so do not drain properly. These collectors of water should be removed and all plumbing, drains, roofs etc., repaired.
It strikes me that these two paragraphs are back to back and seem to contain the same unending list of places that mosquitoes might breed even though the paragraphs are right next to each other it seems a little ridiculous especially when I have to write all of us,. Hopefully you’re enjoying the concepts and we will hopefully actually hear some remedies on how to actually destroy breeding place as opposed to repetitive paragraphs describing where those breeding places are. Then again, sometimes even in modern life you will hear rambling and more often that copy writing text that about irrelevant topics from progesterone to kids toys to scooter safety ad nauseam.
- Sewer Gas Poison
Sewer Gas Poison. — it had obviously absorbed sewer gas, which it ascended through the overflow pipe, and that this had been the real cause of the disease was indicated by the fact that the diarrhea disappeared almost as rapidly as it had broken out, when the cistern was emptied and the pipe efficiently trapped.
Diarrhea in Country Districts. — Dr. Wilson declares that, according to his experience, much of the diarrhea which prevails in country districts during the summer and autumn amongst children is due to polluted water, drunk either as it is drawn from the well or when mixed with milk, fraudulently or by accident.
I combined these two sections as they are both relatively short and again lend to my hypothesis that the author was paid for not only word count, but important (and unnecessary ) ‘important’ section count. Now , that said, I find this interesting also from the perspective that I myself in doing home improvement projects from installing PVC pipe, toilets and bathroom faucets and systems, I have worked through problems and with plumbing systems that benefited from this knowledge. Although when I was taught how to install pipes and instructed in things about sewer gases and vents I was led to believe that these things were done primarily to help with the pressure and dynamics of making things flush and the possibility of what the gas might do in and of itself didn’t really come up, and was treated almost like something that was obvious.
- Air and Gases in Water
Separating substances from liquids a hundred years ago was still a novel chore and not even as easy as a car insurance comparison is today.
Air and Gases in Water.-A considerable amount of air generally exists in water, and is taken up by the gills of fishes, assisting them to accomplish the proper aeration, or rather oxygenation, of their blood. The air usually mingled with water may be expelled by boiling, but is absorbed again if the boiled water is agitated with access of the atmosphere.
Now, that particular segment doesn’t make a great deal of sense in the grand sense of things, but it would appear that the author is trying to talk about the purification or the impurities that can be found or removed from water.
