Avoiding Cholera. -- a first and highly important warning, therefore, which these and many other similar occurrences give us is never to drink any water which, by any possibility, could have become contaminated with the smallest particle discharge from the bowels of a person suffering from cholera or choleraic diarrhea.
This ending on Cholera, is slightly confusing at first as the 100 year old grammar is slightly odd. However, the general lesson seems to be coming across. Its a lesson talking about germs essentially, Cholera specifically. But the author is painting a picture for the lay person that small particles can contaminate water and make everyone sick.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Bones of the Face – Spinal Collumn
Bones of the Face — the bones of the face shown in this plate are the nasal bone, forming the arch of the nose, and malar, which gives prominence to the cheek, the upper jaw, containing the upper teeth, in the lower jaw, containing the under teeth.
The Spinal Column — that portion of the spinal column noticed in the illustration consists of the cervical vertebrae. Each vertebra is composed of a body, with seven spinous processes projecting from it. The body is perforated by a ring, through which is seen running the spinal cord, giving off nerves between each separate bone. A ring of cartilage is seen inserted between each separate vertebra, the object of which is to prevent any jar reaching the brain when we run, jump, walk or stumble.
- How to Destroy the Breeding places of Mosquitoes Part 4
How to Destroy the breeding places of mosquitoes.-every citizen should use his influence to have every village, city and state corporation appropriate money to eliminate all marshes by filling with soil, drain all stagnant streams and have kerosene oil spread on the surface of lakes, ponds or any other body of standing water, no matter how small. The object of using oil as to prevent the “wrigglers” and “tumblers” from getting air, for after leaving the eggs, they require air to develop. A film of oil prevents the “wrigglers” from getting the needed air and they are destroyed by choking. 1 ounce of oil is sufficient to cover 15 square feet of water. Oil should be applied and removed once a week during the breeding season. In standing water must be kept, screen the containers or keep tightly covered, so the females cannot deposit their eggs. Screen all doors and windows. But screams up early in the spring.
So finally in the last paragraph the author drops a bombshell about who actually destroy mosquitoes. Surprisingly, the recommended procedure is to essentially contaminate and poison lake streams and cons with oil. While that recommendation might possibly stifle the development of mosquitoes, which I am actually somewhat doubtful about, it would also stifle the health of anyone that wanted to benefit from drinking that water or any animals for that matter. So this case the concept of position do no harm seems to trigger a scenario where this remedy is worse than the original problem, even though the author did not understand this concept 100 years ago probably. Today, it is common knowledge and even a oil futures broker would be hard pressed to recommend this tactic.
- Nature’s Treasures Open to Man
Nature’s Treasures Open to Man.- all this is a very complicated and diversified process, the necessity for which can only be explained on the hypothesis that nature, in her exhaustless munificence, has opened her proud domains, and poured forth to man the treasures of every land and every sea for food; the cornfields waved their golden grain for him; the wheat, rye, oats, corn, maize, rice, each different, yet highly nutritious and sufficing; the Palm, the date, the banana, the fig, a pineapple, spread out a delicious harvest on the air; the luscious apple, peer, beach, plum, cherry, tempt his ready hand; the potato, the beat, the turnip, tomato, cabbage, the pea, cauliflower, and a thousand other good things, incite his appetite, whilst to this feast is added the flesh of birds, of oxen, of sheep, of swine and of fish; that before the waving wheat and corn, the flesh of other animals, the fruits and farinaceous foods, the running water, the luscious oyster and fish, etc., can be transformed into the refined in spiritual organization of man, it must be thoroughly prepared by the several steps in the digestive process — then, and only then, is it permitted to enter into and co-mingle with the highly complex, nutritious and life-sustaining fluid, the blood.
Wow, now that was really a mouthful. I thought I would never finish all of those extra long lists that attempted to catalog everything that was possible to be from each of the food groups in a single sentence. You may not realize it but that entire paragraph up above was one single sentence or as any of my teachers throughout any of my classes with state, that was one great big freaking run on!
Absolutely ridiculous the number of semicolons and comas that were used throughout that entire mess. I think I probably put on 5 pounds just reading that great big run on a sentence about food. I have to buy a new can of Miracle burn just to speed up my metabolism. I have to wake up in the morning and compete in an Ironman competition just get back on an even keel. Regardless Dragon Naturally Speaking definitely had a lot of fun with that one!