Proximity of Privy and Well. -- unless privy and well be located at considerable distance from each other, and further unless the nature of the ground be such that the flow from the privy will be away from the sources of the well, there is always great danger of the pollution of the well water with germs from the privy. This also applies to nearby stable yards. There are many authenticated cases of typhoid which have been directly traced to the proximity of wells to privies and stables, and the dangers should not be underestimated.
Today, we often consider the injury that we sustain at the hands of others, but consider that 100 years ago, just living, building or improving your home could potentially create unintended results that could significantly impact your health. Searching for a Seattle injury lawyer in a case where you have essentially poisoned yourself due to the poor design or layout of your water supply and privy or septic system would not do you much good.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- 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.
- Plastic Surgery 101
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I am positive that people were concerned about their looks a hundred years ago. There were all sorts of different products designed to captivate people’s attention and change their parents for the better, from her tonics beauty cream’s and many other concoctions.
Back then people don’t have the benefit of a strong FDA. In fact truth in advertising laws were just in their infancy and starting to take hold.
Today we have the ability to change our appearance dramatically and drastically. Modern medicine has evolved to the point that we have the ability to completely change and improve our parents.
To give you a good example you can take a look at plastic surgery 101, a website that provides a great deal of information about plastic surgery options and separates out some of the myths about plastic surgery from the reality. In that regard medicine hasn’t changed great deal from a cultural perspective. Your everyday person still has a number of misconceptions about medicine and how it can be utilized, and medical professionals are still trying to help people sift through the differences between fact and fantasy.
The same website also offers a number of details on rhinoplasty, a procedure commonly referred to as a “nose job.” The site breaks down the distinction between a Beverly Hills rhinoplasty surgical procedure sometimes used for cosmetic purposes and sometimes used for reconstructive purposes. The procedure is common enough today regardless of the purpose. In fact I know several people that have had the procedure done for both reasons. I’ve even had to family members of had rhinoplasty following procedures to correct deficiencies in their nasal passages.
The reality is that there are plastic surgeons in very good plastic surgeons all over the world these days. Some of the earliest and best set of practices creating an industry of Los Angeles plastic surgery, but that industry has grown across the country and is beginning to grow around the world.
These concepts will have been completely foreign 90 years ago in execution, but in concept and desire the human condition has not changed at all in 90 years just our ability to achieve our hearts desire.
- Bones of the Trunk and Arms. Different Forms of Bones
On turning over this flap we are brought face to face with a grim looking but useful object — the framework of the trunk and arms. The skeleton is of a ghastly appearance and emblematic of death; it’s unsightly look sends a thrill of poor through us, and we instinctively recoil from it. Yet at some serves a useful purpose in the human body, and the ugly looking bones, when carefully examined, abound in nice contrivances and ingenious workmanship; whilst each individual bonus design for the a special duty it has to perform. Hence the bones different forms; some are long, as in the arms and legs; some are short and thick, giving strength and compactness, as in the lumbar portion of the spine; some are flat, for covering a cavity, as the school and pelvis, and others used for special purpose or irregular, is in the hands and feet.
just when I thought the book was getting a slightly bit dull, this little section popped out at me as we start to read into some of the peculiar notions the author had regarding the skeletal system. Various phrases such as “thrill of poor” and “ghastly appearance and emblematic of death” rapidly depart from the tone you would expect from a medical journal or book. The author goes halfway through the paragraph before they start to get down to the actual topic at hand and shy away from their romantic notions about how scary a skeleton looks.
It makes me wonder just how much or how little your average person back in the early 1900s may have been exposed to views that included pictures of the skeleton. Back then there was no TV nor cartoons even to introduce children to the funny side of skeletons, there was no Halloween where children dressed up like skeletons. The skull and cross bones probably had a much more sinister visual impact on people and to see a skeleton in real life or even in a picture may have been more dramatic. It definitely seems peculiar here.