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Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- 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.
- Great Value and Beauty of the Plate
Great Value and Beauty of the Plate.–We can understand much of this wonderful process. We have looked into the stomach, watched its peculiar actions and traced its various steps, from which the scientist is capable, in his laboratory of knives, mortars, baths, chemicals and filters, of imitating many of the operations of digestion; but just at the moment he thinks himself most successful, he is compelled to pause. At the threshold of that “one step more,” which Fontenelle required, “and he would surprise nature herself,” he stops, and very wisely, without concealment of his designs, admires, then wonders, and finally worships with all the reverence of his soul.
After reading that diatribe, I have to honestly say I have no idea what the author is talking about. The other seems beyond some strange sort of rant about science, scientists in the digestive system. Unfortunately he’s ranting on a bunch of nonsense almost sound like he’s talking about Frankenstein’s monster. One things for sure I’m glad that I didn’t take a class instructed by this writer. If this book is that hard to understand from sheer gibberish, I can just imagine what’ll lecture would be like.
I don’t think this has so much to do with the difference in the decades of the century even. This seems to be more of an issue of an author suffering from the ability to provide a clear thought and written format. It’s almost like listening to Charlie Brown’s teacher lecture on real estate over the telephone in a Peanuts cartoon.
WAh wah wah wah , wu wah . . . .
This entry seems to reaffirm my belief that this author got paid by the word and not by the concept of thought.
- The Crab Lice
The Crab Lice.—These are a smaller type of the former species, as head or body lice. They are nearly as wide as long. They have strong legs spread out on the sides of the body, which makes them appear like crabs. They are of whitish color, slightly shaded on the shoulders and legs with a red tinge. Crab lice are found upon the hairy regions of the body other than the scalp. The spread of these pests can be checked by washing all toilet seats with scalding water, and boiling towels and linen from suspected persons. Laundries should be especially careful as to the thorough boiling and disinfection of all clothing, as the eggs of these parasites can be conveyed in bed-clothing, towels, etc.
TREATMENT.–Shave the hair in the region of the itching and wash twice a day with a lotion made of
Tincture of Larkspur…………1/2 ounce
Commercial Ether ……….. 8 ounces
WARNING This treatment recommendation is over 100 years old. We do not recommend it nor know how effective or safe it might be. If you are cleaning clothing or Delsey luggage or something, use at your own risk, but if you try this stuff on your self, we think you are probably crazy.
