THE PUBLIC DRINKING CUP. The drinking cup is a common carrier of disease. It can and does spread consumption, syphilis and typhoid fever. Any child or adult suffering from tonsilitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever or other communicable diseases can infect another by using a public tumbler or cup, whether at a public railroad station, school house, ball park, pump, railroad train, ferry boat or steamship of any kind, etc. The most of the State Boards of Health have had laws passed in recent years to abolish the public drinking cup and those states which have not done so are neglecting the public health by not enforcing this preventive measure, which would aid iu checking the spread of disease. The drinking cup should be replaced by a sterile paper cup which can be purchased in sealed packages or containers and are given away free of charge in trains, etc., and can be purchased for one penny from the slot machines in stations. They are destroyed after use and a more refreshing and sanitary drink is obtained and the danger of contracting disease eliminated. The Public Drinking Cup Must Go.

The concept of a Public Drinking cup is extremely foreign to many of us in the US today.  In fact it is often difficult in this age of dishwashing machines to even get a person to use the same cup themselves more than once.  We live in an era where drinking out of a fresh drinking bottle or soda bottle or coffee cup is the norm and not the exception.  We can hardly conceive of going on Vegas vacations or trips to Disney World or even a trip to Wal-mart or McDonalds or wherevere and entering into a casino or 'saloon' or restaraunt and drinking out of the same cup that hundreds or even thousands of others had utilized before us.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Grace and Ease in Walking
  
  

  Grace and Ease in Walking.- in the several beautiful and anatomical charts illustrating the bony, muscular and an internal mechanism of the human frame we have been consciously awakened to its complexity we been forcibly impressed as the amazing skill in wisdom displayed in his marvelous arrangement, and at the general order, system, harmony and perfection which everywhere prevails throughout the diversified contrivance of the body.  But its wonders do not stop there.  The graceful motion, ease with which we won, lead, etc., demonstrating with/entity difference Russell’s concern to those movements contract and obey the impulse of the will.

  This is the last section of entries from Book 1 of the Book of Medicine and soon I will be toasting the completion of the transcription of the first 70 pages of the book toasting myself with a nice red wine in a new set of Riedel wine glasses.  I am going to be temporarily skipping Book 2 on anatomy and focus next on Book 3 ‘Preventative Medicine’ which includes such interesting sections as ‘How to Get Rid of Flies’ and killing cockroaches, sexual diseases and sexual education for children. I’ve got a feeling this next section will be much more interesting.

  Here’s the last few sections all together to complete Book 1.

  The Voice.- the voice may utter 1500 letters in a minute, yet the articulation of each of those sounds requires a different and distinct position of the vocal organs, the muscles of which move a surprising celerity and swiftness.

  Deafness of the Fingers.- in music we train the muscles of the fingers until the glide over the keyboard of the piano with dexterity and precision, and perform the most simple and delightfully exquisite music and onto the grand, difficult and complex passage of a private harmony.  The mind of the skillful and professional violinist is upon the music which his right hand is executing by the very movements of the bow, yet the muscles of his left hand and fingers are deathly engaged in determining the length of the space of the strings, the character and duration of each note; and so rapidly, carefully, aye, even unconsciously are these complex movements made, but not a false note is heard, though the variation of a singles hair’s breadth would cause a discord, and is spoil the pleasing effect of the music, and destroy the attractiveness of its harmony.

  Muscle Development.- the bicep muscle in the arm of the blacksmith may grow strong, Howard, firm, and a solid almost as a club; the legs of the pedestrian may become large and well developed; the hand of a prizefighter trains over the force of a sledgehammer; while the end and terms, engraver trees line so delicate line as the invisible to the naked eye, and the fingers of the blind acquirer delicacy of touch that almost compensates for the missing sense.  Thus there are few conceptions of the designing mine which the muscular system of man cannot be made to execute and perform.

• THE LEG; ITS MECHANISM AND ITS WONDERFUL ENDOWMENTS
  
  

  Leg Muscle.- In every part of the human brain there is witnessed ample evidence of design, beauty of architecture, great skill, Finnish workmanship, and a perfect adaptability to the duties he performed.  This fact is strikingly illustrated in the beautifully executed color plates to which attention is now drawn, join as it does, at a glance, a thick, strong, muscular instruments employed in the manifold intricacies involved in the act of human locomotion.  This exquisitely artistic anatomical plate represents a front view of the pie, leg and foot, and of the 54 fleshy lovers which give form, shape, symmetry, strength and mobility to this useful member of the body.  Quite a number of the most important are seen exposed to view, after the scan and fatty tissues have been removed.  We are deeply impressed with their large size and great strength, both of which correspond with the requirements demanded the very work which the lake is called onto the form.

  In many ways this initial section of the book seems to read less like a medical book and more like a sales pitch trying to convince people to like the human body and accept the ‘beauty’ of the anatomy of the body.  This sales pitch like style is reminiscent of reading a sales catalog for floor tile or a flyer on the latest model of Fords or something.  Its more like copy writing than medical text.

• Chart 2
  
  

  Here are several images captured with a digital camera covering Chart 2.