Coffee as Cure for Whooping Cough Cited by 1854 Authority
Dr Gibbs quotes Jules Guyot recommending strong coffee to treat whooping cough with apparent success in multiple cases. A six year old showed no further whoop after coffee dosed thrice daily, a younger sibling recovered in three weeks, and another recent case halted the cough promptly. Notes on dosing challenges and safety emphasize using ground beans and a very strong decoction.
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George D. Gibbs
London
Jules Guyot
Boston Med
Surg. Journal
Reformed Drunkard Snatched for Anatomy Lesson
An elderly man, Simeon Tate, is said to have become intoxicated daily despite medical cures. His wife and brothers-in-law devise a plan and abduct him while drunk to stage an anatomy scare at a Medical College, threatening to cut him up if he remains alive.
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Joseph Lane
Oregon
Fort Sumter
Pacific
Jo. Lane
Simeon Tate
Simeon
Tate
Medical College
Mrs Tate
Ile
Iady
Commodore Tucker
Wiscasset
Sheepscut
Tucker
Daniel Carter
Eailor
Dre
One Right Minded Boy Changes a School
A teacher recalls Alfred, a religious pupil who inspired three others to uphold good conduct transforming a disreputable school into a well behaved place. Expulsions followed for four or five remaining troublemakers as public opinion shifted toward study and order.
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Alfred
Schourls
Commodore Tucker Foils Coffin Bomb Plot Aboard Schooner
In Penobscot Bay in 1814 Commodore Samuel Tucker pursues a British frigate off Castine. A passenger woman carries a coffin with hidden gunpowder and pistols as a trap. Tucker discovers the hoax, dumps the powder, and unmasks the conspirator aboard.
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Penobscot
Griffeth
John C. Sherbrooke
Novia Scotia
Castine
Penobscot River
Samuel Tucker
Penobscot Bay
Casting
Thomaston
Belfast
Commodore's Nemesis in Murder Plot on Eastern Coast
A captured enemy officer confesses a plan to destroy the American Commodore and crew. The prisoner is lashed to the main rigging as punishment while the Commodore debates mercy and the fate of the villain, who may have leaped to his death. The moment shows the crew’s relief and grim justice aboard. Death in the cruelties of war and a reflection on innocence and death follow in a separate excerpt from Dublin University Magazine.
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Carter
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Tucker
Oman
Tam
Commodore
Sam Ityde
Raisoit
God
Sam Slyde
Commodore Tucker
Seguin
Kingdom of
Meaven
Dublin University Magazine
Moturr tribute to Hon H Benton from his mother
The speaker recalls his mother's influence guiding him away from tobacco and gambling and toward temperance. He credits her pious wishes for his lifelong abstinence, noting he began at age seven and has remained true to the resolution of total abstinence.
Mangen Ode on Roses and Remembrance
The passage contrasts the perfume of a thousand roses with a lasting pain from a single thorn. It notes how a joyous moment is shadowed by memory, and compares gracious favors that please to clumsy kindness that disgusts by its manner rather than its gift.
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Oxz
Goop Seactation for Officers in War Compared
A fragmented quotation argues for officers to imitate privates in Italian war practice to avoid being targeted, praising Rhode Island as momentarily the biggest state. It recounts a schoolboy ciphering anecdote and reflects on money, wealth, and occasional correctness in misfortune.
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