Old Time Doctors Torture Patients With Fevers and Bleeding
The article recounts eighteenth century medical excesses including bleeding for almost any ailment, fear of air and water, and lavish regimens of heavy meals and wine. It notes physicians’ brutal practices, famed doctors with reckless cures, and the era’s deadly misunderstandings of disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallentyre
Cornhill
Montesquieu
Garth
Brown
Wuebman
Louis XIV
Tremouille
Duke of Bedford
Primitive weights and measures from Siam revealed
A Siamese system uses a cocoanut shell held measure equaling 880 tamarind seeds, with twenty shells per wooden bucket. Dry measure uses 830 seeds per k anahn and twenty five k anahn per sat, eighty sats per kwien. The piece notes these as primitive unit origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Hudson and Wilson Attorneys and Local Listings in Bryan
The notice lists Hudson and Wilson Attorneys at Law Bryan Texas with practice in Brazos and Robinson counties. It advertises land for sale in Moses Hughes survey near Edgerince and near A&M College with 80 acres adjoining college land. Also mentions a house and lot one block east of Hudson home and two cottages with bath for sale at 2000 dollars with terms.
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England
Canada
Ontario
Bb. Hudson
Wilson Hudson
Wilson
Bryan
Franklin
Texas
Brazos
Robinson
Moses Hughes
M. College
George Platter
Navasota
Hudson
J. W. Batts
Mee
Tahacwro
Court House
Phonesi Ave
Brazos County
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Antee
Adams
Holmes Confectionery
Stevenson Machine Manufacturing
Jone
ITF
M. H. James
Sanders Bros
Fens
Havana
Fisher
Huyler
Cavitt’s Drug Store
The
Franklin Life Insurance Co
S. M. Derden
Act
Cozy Theater
Santa Claus
Tyler Haswell
Haviland
China
Germany
Hasvee’s Book Store
Clarence
New York Press
Fort Worth
Dec
Austin
Navy
Tanklis
Tex
WellBorn
OR. W. H. Lawrence
Bath
Southeas
United States
J. G. Hines
Kindle
Shrance
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