How to Destroy Bed Bugs.-- Spray with pure spirits or crude turpentine or benzine by using an ordinary nose and throat atomizer which can be bought in a drug store, all brass or wooden beds after scalding where possible with hot water, spray the crevices of floor, back of picture frames and where a house is "alive" with the pests repaper and paint rooms.

These small little bugs are very difficult to see even when you know what you are looking for, dozens of them or their eggs could fit on a micro sd card that would go in a modern cell phone.

Spirits of turpentine will kill where carbolic acid has failed. After each spraying, watch for the bedbugs as those which are not destroyed will hasten to escape and can be killed. Remember benzine and turpentine are inflammable and poisonous. No lights should be permitted in the rooms during or immediately following the use of these drugs. When articles cannot be sprayed, as books, etc., seal up the room and burn a sulphur candle. Place sulphur candle in a tin cup and place cup in a tin or metal pie plate containing water.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• VIEW OF THE BASE OF THE BRAIN, AND THE THOUHGTS IT SUGGESTS
  
  

  We now kick off a new section focusing on the base of the brain.

  Shape of Brain– As so graphically delineated in this beautiful as well as natural illustration of the human brain, we glean a knowledge of the origin and source of its blood supply; the arteries are observed to distribute numerous branches in very us directions along and over its surface, many of which penetrate its substance. As noticed, the brain presents an ovoid or egg shaped appearance, divided into two equal, lateral halves — hemispheres as they are called — thus virtually giving us two brains, the same as we have two eyes, two arms and two legs. With this surplus of brains, as it were, at our command, we are naturally lead to ask the question, who can define the metes and bounds of the mind? or described the limits of our intellectual capacity? Who can fathom the depths of thought? Or circumscribe our mental, educational or scientifical acquirements, when health grounds the human temple with its rubicund mantle? Echo answers who?

  Now I love it when the authors of this book go into weird speculative diatribes. In this section we are given one of those strange diatribes. The author starts to provide a description of the diagram of the brain and then launches into hypothetical questions that have no answer.

  It strikes me that based on the extra spectacular use of profound words, that the author is almost writing in a way to prove their knowledge and authority and their own deep thoughts only possible due to the extraordinary brain that they possess as they described the brain in general. I think it’s important to mention that this book is destined for housewives in an era hundred years ago where any child that grew up to be lucky to possess and elementary education. The use of words such as ‘rubicund’ and ‘circumscribe’ strike me as words that probably weren’t understood at that time. However it’s possible that these were everyday words in an era when language was different than it is today. Circumscribe is not a particularly odd word today however rubicund is.

  So as the author left off with many hypothetical questions, I will do the same.

  Did the author intend to impress turn-of-the-century housewives with his fancy talk? Did the female editor of this work change the words to something fancier than what the original author had written? Was the author attempting to fill the book with more words, using 20 where one might do? Was language such as this used more commonly a hundred years ago? Is there something biblical sounding about these words or do they commit a type of philosophical sentiment?

  I’m sure there are dozens of other questions that can be emitted about this, but it’s these types of phrases and perspectives that make this study of the book interesting.

• The Kidneys
  
  

  The Kidneys.– The kidneys are two glandular bodies, having for their functions the secretion of urine.  The form of the kidney resembles a French bean; its average length team from four to four and a half inches, two inches in breadth and one in thickness.  The two kidneys are situated one on each side of the spine and the lumbar region, opposite the last two dorsal and two first lumbar vertebrae; they are a brownish-read color flattened from before word, and grooved on the anterior border for the reception of the great vessels.

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  I do not know what a French bean looks like, but I suspect people to read the book 100 years ago probably did.  I suppose this is some sort of reference point is lost its way over the years even though I’m sure there are a few people that knows what this still is.  This book was written to be a common reference for the everyday person hundred years ago, but it probably would not connect home with everyday people in the current century.  There are a number of ways to look at this, but it is important to remember that a reference that can be understood is very important when you’re trying to help somebody possibly save their life or prevent further injury, if you give a reference to medical supplies describing what they look like and where they should be located, but the person that you tell doesn’t understand what you’re saying it could be the difference between life and death.  That said, this is more of an anatomy lesson and it is doubtful that the average person really needed to know what the kidneys look like in a human person.  This was probably more beneficial for a person that might actually consider studying it as an in depth later on down the road.

• How to Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies
  
  

  How to Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies.-flies breed by laying Lara by or eggs which can be seen as maggots in all undisturbed till.  It requires eight days for the millions of eggs to grow.  Keep garbage can tightly covered, protect by screen so that flies cannot reach the garbage.  See the garbage is collected promptly and cleanly.  If you live in the country, burned or bury it.  Allowed no filth or decaying matter of any kind to accumulate in or near your premises.  Keep stable clean, placed in Newark, old straw, etc., in screened pits, vault, or in boxes or barrels which should be well covered.  Screen all previous, vault and openings to cesspools or drainage structures.  See that they do not overflow and use chloride of lying freely.  Pour kerosene into drains, keep drainage systems in good order and repair all leaks at once.  Destroy sawdust custom doors, they are unsanitary.  Clean custom doors daily and keep a 5% carbolic acid solution in them all the time.  Permit no dirt to accumulate in corners, behind doors, back of radiators, under still owes, et cetera.  If there is a nuisance in the neighborhood, notify the nearest health authority.

  Well pouring kerosene into water drains these days would definitely be something that the EPA would have a problem with.  But you can and must understand the naïve concepts if they had about protecting their homes and households from disease and other infectious things that could hurt them immediately and possibly have prevented them from seeing the long-term problems that might have come from contaminants going into water supply.  They can see the cause-and-effect problems of disease, but they could oversee the cause-and-effect relating to contamination of other items such as kerosene mixing with water supplies.  We are talking about serious issues keeping people healthy as opposed to coming up with tips on the best acne treatment for a teenager.