How to destroy the breeding places of mosquitoes.-Mosquitoes will breathe indoors as well as outside. Any water left in clogged sinks, toilet fixtures, water pitchers in bedrooms, slop jars buckets, tubs, spittoons, aquariums without fish, or in fact any vessel which is capable of holding the few teaspoons of Still water, will afford a breeding Place for the mosquito. Neglect to remove or repair the above structure is only allowing a large crop of mosquitoes to develop and annoy you and your neighbors by bites, disturbing your comfort, preventing rest, sleep and subjecting you to the malaria and yellow fever if you are in a district where these diseases are known to exist.So yet again they've managed to find a way to include another list of places where mosquitoes might be born or patch. Thanks a lot for that. There's only one paragraph bonus section and they still haven't described how to destroy the breeding places. With these types of vagueness I'd almost expect them to tell me to shut the wood blinds to keep out the mosquitoes too.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Powers of the Hand – Skill of the hand
Powers of the Hand. – and how very good and useful or its endowments! How wondrously adapted to the uses to which it is daily applied! It’s elegance of outline, delicacy of mold and beauty of color has ever made it the attractive study of the artist; whilst its elasticity, flexibility and strength, combined with its delicate and exquisite mobility, and perfect adaptation as an organ of pretension, have led many philosophers to attribute man’s high and graceful spear he worked he even more to the hand them to the mine. Glowing thoughts are penned up on the pages of history by means of the hand; it wheels the artist pencil and brush, and makes the bare canvas and attractive and valuable work of art; how it strikes the keyboard of the piano with so delicate a touch that low, sweet, plaintive strains of music are brought forth; now the force of the blow is much greater and firmer, and louder and louder and more thrilling musical strains.
Skill of the Hand. – the farmers toil, a housewife status, the dressmakers deafness, the mechanics skill, are all accomplished by the human hand. How constantly does the lives from an aids us in expressing our feelings. It is the orator’s chief aide and giving expression to his lofty strains of eloquence, or emphasizing his pathetic appeals.
At this point, for this session I am going to sign off. The platitudes have finally gotten to me but don’t fear. We’ll be back again and you can continue to read my droll commentary like subtitling on a bad Sundance Film Festival Marathon in Italian.
- The Shin Bone
The Shin Bone. -The Tibia or shinbone is also a very large, strong, triangular-shaped bone, enlarged at both ends; the lower end, however where it articulates and forms a hinge joint with the foot, is larger and more prominent than the upper end. And as if this bone was not sufficiently strong enough in itself to bear the weight of the body, our Creator, that boundless wisdom and forethought everywhere in the human frame you see revealed, strengthens the legs by an additional bone, which is seen running on the outer side of the shinbone, to which it is firmly found at both ends.
That is the Shin Bone and I must say that I will be happy when we get out of the glossary of body parts. We are approaching diseases and their transmission next which should be a more interesting topic and less likely to make a person want to update cover letters from 10 years ago in their spare time.
- Typhoid from Milk
Typhoid from Milk. — it is also been proven in late years the typhoid is transmitted from infected milk, cows have been allowed to drink from streams that have had the discharges from typhoid patients thrown into them here in the germs have been taken into the cows and finally into the milk. This note was distributed to families and in many cases caused typhoid.
If you think that is interesting check out this article from the New York times from 1913(pdf). The timing is extraordinary as this could be close to the date of publication of this book. I suspect that since the book does not mention this experiment and finding the author either did not give merit to the experiment or the experiment had not yet been published, ergo the book was published first. 100 years from now someone will probably be trying to compare the traces of Apidexin or other drugs like we are typhoid
That’s pretty amazing to find something that close in time frame.
Extract from the Article:
IMMUNIZED MILK KILLS TYPHOID AND TUBERCLE BACILLI; Dr. Julius Rosenberg’s Experiments Lead Him to Believe That the Milk of Immunized Animals Will Prevent These Infections and May Cure Them in Human Beings.
By Van Buren Thorne, M.D.
December 14, 1913, Sunday
Section: Magazine Section, Page SM7, 3654 words
DR. JULIUS ROSENBERG, a well-known physician of this city, is carrying on a series of experiments in the heart of the Catskill Mountains, the results of which are likely, in his opinion, to check the spread of typhoid fever and tuberculosis and reduce the mortality from these diseases.
