To Get Rid of Fleas.—Remove and clean rugs, etc. Dust Pyrethrum powder into all cracks and crevices where dust or dirt may be lodged to destroy the larvæ. Scrub the floor and footboards with hot soap and water to kill the adult fleas. To eliminate fleas on cats or dogs, dust Pyrethrum powder into the hair. The fleas will fall off while stupefied and should be immediately swept up and burned. Sleeping places of dogs and cats should be cleaned and covered with a carpet or matting that can be shaken into an open fire and the eggs, larvæ and fleas with which it is generally covered, destroyed.During an epidemic of Bubonic Plague destroy all rats, mice, stray dogs and cats, etc., and protect your house by killing all fleas whether in the furnishings or on your family pets. Flea bites are painful and if scratched may cause an abscess, followed by blood poisoning. The pain and itching of a flea bite can be counter-acted by touching the wound with ammonia water. To prevent infection, bathe the wound with a 5 per cent. solution of carbolic acid in water and bandage until healed.
A look at a common flea. Fleas have historically been much more problematic for humans. today they cause small problems with pets, but in years past they were more problematic with pests, or even livestock. Today, even our pets cozy in warm houses covered in vinyl siding bathed in flea dip popping flea pills once a month are more protected from fleas.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- How is Malaria carried by the Mosquito
How is malaria carried by the mosquito?-best imagined that a man has returned from some malarial country takes up his abode in a healthy, yet mosquito infested village. This man may be fairly over his attack yet he still suffers from an occasional chill with fever. He has no screens in his house, nor have his neighbors, unless previously told to follow such cautions. A female as Cato are several attack in and stuck his blood which contains these tiny parasites. The mosquito takes millions of the little parasites which then undergo a development in the body of the insect and can be seen microscopically in the stomach and intestine, and the small glands in its mouth, which secrete saliva. Now let us follow the mosquito and see what harm it can cause any community. It flies through a screen door or window and lights on the arm, etc., of an unsuspecting neighbor. Inviting a person the mosquito ejects or gives off its saliva into the womb to eight in diluting the blood of a person which it has been, as the blood is too thick to be sucked up to the tiny tube in the bill (proboscis) of the mosquito. In this way the bite of the female mosquito whose body contains a small animal error sites which cause malaria, as by means of the saliva into the blood of the person during the act of sucking up the blood. Does the mosquito sucks up the blood of the individual and in exchange injects into his blood the saliva contains parasites. These parasites multiply in the blood of the person bitten and produce poisons which give rise to the chills, fever, aching limbs, etc., known as malaria, malarial fever or “odd,” (chills and fever). It can readily be seen how malaria will spread when individuals in the community have millions of parasites in the blood, and at the same time as Cato’s are carrying around in their bodies, millions of the same living germs which they sought from the blood of the infected person, develop and inject them into the blood of every person they bite.
You will notice as you read the follow on sections covering Mosquitos and Malaria that the book is big on talking about where they live, but not terribly practical on how to actually deal with the insects. There are more references to different possible breeding places than there are gears in a Patek Gondolo watch.
- Show of Ear Canals
Show of Ear Canals. – the semicircular canals, and the cochlea, so named for its resemblance to a snail shell, are also typically shown. And the nice colored illustration we observe a graphic and truthful view of the delicate internal arrangement and mechanism of the internal part of the organ of hearing. Here we observe the winding stair of the cochlea, over the surface of which the delicate fibrils of the auditory nerve expand, and the minute fibers of the Corti, called from their discoverer, are seeing a range with geometrical precision, the longest at the bottom in the shortest at the top.
We are cruising through this section and making up on lost time after our recent trip to Vegas where we managed to come down with a nice cold at one of the older Vegas hotels on the strip. You should definitely just pick one there and stick with it!
- Heart a Double Organ
Heart a Double Organ. –On looking at the heart one would think it was a single, solid organ. It is not, however, but a double organ, divided into four compartment; the two upper ones, and they’re supposed resemblance to a dog’s ear, are called auricles, and the lower ones, from resembling a little stomach, are called ventricles. The auricle and ventricle on each side communicate with one another, but the right and left halves of the heart are each separate and distinct organs, and perform different functions — the right side propels the dark, vitiated and impure blood, whilst the left deals with the bright crimson, life — giving and life — sustaining blood.
I found it odd that the author referred to the left and right sections of the heart communicating with each other. They do work in tandem or synchronized together, but I have to wonder if the author believes as opposed to knowing in a scientific way that he heart has some sort of cognitive power to actually communicate between sections of the heart. Or possibly the author had some sort of mechanical perspective and looked at the heart like to sprocket’s connected together communicating as the teeth of the sprocket of the left side connected with teeth of the sprocket of the right side transferring information from one to the next like a Turing machine.
As I think about some of the odd things in this book, I even experienced the idle thought that maybe the author or editors might have been dipping into their own medicine like Sigmund Freud a little too much. I have no idea how much drug abuse by physicians may have occurred one hundred years ago, but the diversion from fact into what might be described as fluffy filler, could possibly be explained by the presence of a drug addiction. Addicts were prevalent 100 years ago even thought here were no drug rehabs. If people go help at all for their addictions, it might include a trip to a sanitorium or an alms house, but chances are this is all just speculation and incorrect in the assumption.