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May 18th, 2008 at 4:24 pm

What to do to Ret Rid of Flies

What to do to Ret Rid of Flies.-Screen your windows and doors.  Do it early in the spring before flight time and keep it up until cold weather calms.  Screen all food, especially milk.  Do not eat food that has been in contact with flies.  Screen the baby's bed and keep flies away from the baby's bottle, nickel and food, rattle, toys, etc.  Keep flies away from the sick, especially those ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and tuberculosis, etc.  Screen the patient's bed.  Kill every fly seem to enter the sick room.  Disinfect all discharges, dressings, bandages, etc., from the patient and burn where possible catch all flies by use of sticky flypaper, traps and liquid poisons.  A good poison to destroy flies is Tuesday is too steep is two teaspoonfuls from outside a pint of water sweetened with sugar and placed him saucers throughout the house.  Be sure and have poisonous be sure and have poisons out of reach of children and family pet.  To read an infected house of flies, burning each room I read from powder.  Darken the room allowing only ray of light to enter at edge of window shades.  Sprinkle I read from powder over hot coals and Kerry about Rome.  The flies will be stunned by the fumes and can be readily swept up.  This is done because the flies will seek the light to escape the fumes enfold near the windows.  Swat a fly whenever seen.  It cattle can easily be made to kill the flies with by taking an oblong sheet of water draws and mailing it to a stick of suitable link for handle.

I do not know what I read from as but I would suggest that the concept of shutting the shades and just leaving the crack of light to attract the insects to light it is a smart concept for trying to then have a an easy target and today in a world where we can easily go buy a plastic flyswatter mass-produced somewhere it's kind of interesting to consider how he might go about making a flyswatter from scratch with water draws mailing it to a stick.    Today, we might worry about how to get our bathroom faucets spotless, because we have progressed past the point where we have to worry about flies.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

  • Cerebrum and Cerebellum

    I’m starting to get caught up on my study of the book of medicine now. Today I’m covering a larger section on the cerebrum and cerebellum and tomorrow I’ll be covering the olfactory nerve in the tongue.

    Cerebrum and Cerebellum - We observed that the cerebrum, the seat of mind and volition, is much larger than the cerebellum or little brain; a biz though that was not enough area for the evolution of the mind, we see this part of the brain most curiously wrinkled and folded into various sized convolutions, thus increasing the mental service. The more numerous these convolutions are, the higher and more noble and mental faculties and intellectual powers become. The hemisphere of the brain, here shown, is seen to be divided into three lobes, the frontal, middle and posterior. The Corpus Callosum, or the great commissioner of the brain, is most faithfully represented, and immediately below is seen the Fornix. The peculiar appearance of the cerebellum or little brain presents a tree-like resemblance, once it is called arbor vitae, or the tree of life.

    This section has several interesting segment Senate that stood out to me as I read them. Plus it had a third that stood out to my wife. My wife wondered if the word convolutions meant the same thing as convulsions. “Is that even a word? Are they spelled the same she asked?”

    They are both words and both different words at that. For entertainment purposes I will provide you with my assumed definition even though I could be wrong. Maybe someone will take the light 90 years from now in interpreting my definition or perceived definition of these words.

    To me a convolutions is something that represents a folding or a complex structure such as the folds of the brain.

    Where as, in a a convulsion is a physical act as someone made a fall into when they are suffering from epilepsy or choking or some act of involuntary muscle control.

    I also found it somewhat entertaining to hear the author describes a noble mental faculties and references to the higher brain. This book was written before World War I and World War II where was publicly documented and historically written down for the record that the human brain has the capability to perform things that are far less than noble and definitely not intrinsic to our own thought processes. I suspect there’s also certain nonsecular references to the concept that a person is of a higher level of importance in the grand scheme of things. The connotations of this verbiage have much potential but its true intent is probably only something that we will build a speculate on going even further into the future.

  • Lice

    Lice.—The body louse has been found to be a carrier of typhus fever. It carries the germ in its body after biting a sufferer from the disease and by biting a person can inject the germ into his blood. Lice belong to the insect family. The species which infest human beings are about 1-10 of an inch in length and are found on the covered regions of the body and clothing.

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    A difficult and stigmatized task, removing head lice is a honerous task, about as difficult as upgrading a video card on a laptop.

    Lice always grow from the eggs laid by an adult louse and never originate from filth or other matter. They hatch out within a week and the young are capable of reproduction in less than two weeks. A single adult female will produce 5,000 lice within eight weeks.

    The annoyance of these pests biting a human being will cause, if sufficiently prolonged, a nervous irritation, and a condition of ill health follows. There are three types of lice which infest man. The Head Lice (Pediculus Capitis), the Body Lice (Pediculus Vestimentorum) and Crab Lice (Pediculus Inguinalis).

  • 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.

 

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