WARNING! THIS ARTICLE REPRESENTS A HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO THE PRACTICES USED OVER 100 YEARS AGO TO GET RID OF COCKROACHES. THIS PRACTICE COULD BE DANGEROUS TO YOU, YOUR HOME, YOUR CHILDREN OR PETS OR MORE IF YOU UTILIZE THEM TODAY.
THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY!
How to Destroy Cockroaches.—Take a quarter of a teaspoonful of phosphorous, two level tablespoonfuls of flour, mix and make into paste with well sweetened water. Phosphorous is very inflammable and should not be allowed near fire and being poisonous must not be placed where children and family pets can touch or eat it. Place the paste where the roaches can reach it.
Maybe in this modern age if we allowed more cock roaches to enter our abodes, our appetites would be cubed a bit and weight loss wouldn't be so much of an issue.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Applying the Test for Lead
Applying the Test for Lead. — the sulfide of ammonium may be purchased at a small cost, save for $.25 an ounce, of most dealers and chemicals; and, as its odor is extremely disagreeable, it should be carefully corked until the moment it is used. The experiment should be made upon half a pint of the suspected water; and, if the contamination is supposed to be caused by lead pipes, it is a good plan to test a portion of the liquid which has stood overnight in the conduits. The mode of discriminating the precipitate caused by iron from those due to the dangerous metals, lead and copper, is to let fall a few drop of hydrochloric acid, called also muriatic acid, into the fluid. If the brownish or yellowish brown tent disappears, we may know that innocent iron is the only metallic impurities; whilst if, on the contrary, no change is effected by the addition of the acid, one of the poisonous metals, better copper, is present. No water, however, in which the slightest change is produced by adding the sulfide of ammonium, should be swallowed by man or beast until a rigid investigation by a competent water analyst has proved it to be harmless.
I somehow doubt that sulfide of ammonium costs that amount today. Its probably either much more expensive or sold in ridiculous bulks at every grocery store, pharmacy and gas station next to the Phentermine in one of those combination aisles that sells just a little bit of everything, but never the thing you really need.
- Lung Air Cells
Lung Air Cells. — Each air cell varies in size from the seventieth to the one two-hundredth parts of an inch in diameter. The number of aerosols in the two lungs is truly surprising, they’re been certainly not less than 600,000,000, though according to Dr. Addison’s computation there are 1,700,000,000, equivalent to 1,500 square feet of surface on which the process of purifying the blood is constantly in continuously going on in a healthy lung.
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The book doesn’t mention who Dr. Addison is or how he reached his computation, a hundred years later these numbers seem highly questionable if for no other reason than they are not supported, there’s no footnote in the book, there’s no mention of who Dr. Addison is or what he’s done or why his numbers should be considered. There’s no mention of who came up with the original numbers that Dr. Addison’s numbers seem to refute.
Also I’ve referenced the diagrams from chart 2, this includes three images of the lungs diagrammed and you can compare those to modern-day diagrams of the lungs from a Google image search.
- The Pyloric Gate and The Liver
The Pyloric Gate. — At the smaller end the muscular fibers contract and form a gateway — the pylorus, as it is called — which carefully guards the exit from the stomach, and allows no food to escape until properly prepared. The gastric blood vessels are seeing distributing themselves over the outer surface of the organ, thus ensuring its nutrition and repair.
The Liver. — The liver is the secreting organ by which the bile is formed. It is situated on the right side below the diaphragm, and is of a reddish-brown color. It is a regular in form, being convex on the upper surface, irregularly concave behind, very thin in front, and weighs about 4 pounds. It is, therefore, seen to be the largest organ or gland in the body. It is divided into two lobes, the right and the left, the former being by far the larger. I’m turning the flap over, we see how intricately is arranged internally.
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It’s strange but there are only a few sections like this one where there are no bizarre items to report or identify. It’s kind of a nice change of pace when the medical textbook reverts back to being a medical textbook.
I’m sure some strange topic will come up to catch my attention soon and it’s not like topics today in real life don’t sometimes appear a little out of the ordinary. I recently covered a reference to something known as tranquility diapers, which I believe is some reference to the peace of mind that a person suffering from incontinence, or IBD might experience after they utilize this particular product and start to live a more normalized life again.
In many ways it’s all a matter of perspective, my perspective of this old textbook is skewed significantly from the perspective of the initial writers and editors. Like calculus problem I’m studying the derivative. In this case the derivative can be measured by the span of time and change in knowledge .