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 THIS ARTICLE REPRESENTS A HISTORICAL REFERENCE TO THE PRACTICES USED OVER 100 YEARS AGO TO GET RID OF COCKROACHES.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.
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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:
- Impure Ice As a Cause of Diarrhea.
Impure Ice As a Cause of Diarrhea. — the fact that ice is now used by almost all classes to an extent which entitles it to rank rather as a necessity than, as formally, as a luxury of life, renders it important that its purity should be is jealously guarded as the water supply. It is popularly believed that water freeze itself from dangerous organic matter, as it does to a great degree from certain saline contaminations during the process of freezing, and also that the vegetable or animal germs of typhoid and other fevers are killed, or at least rendered sterile, by congelation of the water in which they exist. Both these ideas are, however, unquestionably running us, as has been repeatedly proved by the various experiments which ignorant hotel keepers try without the least intending it, upon their guests, on a scale which would have the oldest vivisector stand aghast before the suffering inflicted, even if it were only upon the brutes which form the subjects of his researches.
- Danger in Farmhouses from Polluted Water
Danger in Farmhouses from Polluted Water. — Of course, the same conclusion holds good for country farmhouses or dwellings when, from motives of convenience, although there is space enough and to spare, but a short distance is interposed between the sides of the hole which is called the well, and which furnishes the drinking water, and the other hole nearby which is called the cesspit, and used as a receptacle for filthy, often poisonous, excrement. Moreover, there are no doubt many instances where, owing to the inclination of beds of sand or gravel, strata of rock and so forth, impurities of these and other dangerous varieties may be carried, by underground currents, much further than the distances which have been mentioned as measured upon the surface of the earth area in other words, a cesspool on a hillside, 500 feet or more away from a well, may infect the water of the latter, if underground currents favor such contamination.
We have previously talked about the potential for typhoid and other contagions that can be carried by livestock and transmitted to humans. Shielding the water supply both of people from animals and animals from people was known 100 years ago, but not always well documented unlike the dangers of mesothelioma or many other deadly situations that people could create themselves.
- Giving up of Oxygen
Before I begin this next section, I wanted to point out the title it has a most curious title. I can’t wait to figure learn what it might mean. It sounds as if someone might give up an addiction, however I believe that addiction was not understood 90 years ago as it is today. Although people did work to give up ‘vices’ that today are known to be addictive such as alcohol, tobacco, opiates and other items.
Giving up of Oxygen. –the atmospheric air laden with its life-sustaining property, oxygen, having passed in to the lungs, gives up that vital element and receives in its place the carbonic acid gas, water, and other refuse materials which the blood is picked up in its journey through the body, and which are no longer fitted to circulate in the blood and preserve the vitality of the body. No tonic invigorates so well as a few, deep, full inspirations of pure, cold air.
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well I didn’t expect what I received in that section. The last sentence though definitely sounds a little bit hokey. Older maybe invigorating, but that doesn’t certainly make it healthy. It just makes a cold.
Oddly there are a few unscientific studies that have been circulated over the last decade or two that offer a contrarian exception that heat therapy might actually be good for a person that is sick. I suspect that the correct answer is that the body needs or prefers a stable temperature that is neither too hot nor too cold in order to remain healthy or regain health.