Imaginary Ills Highlight Medicine's Mind Over Body
In a city amid a diphtheria scare, forty people report throat pains with no physical basis, while doctors note that many ailments are imaginary. Stories describe headaches, feverish delusion, and the power of suggestion, including tricks by quacks and social pressures influencing illness perceptions.
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Moore Building
New Bedford
New York Giants
Philadelphia Athletics
New York
Punk
America
San Antonio
Mike
European sightseeing by horse drawn carriage gains notice
Mrs H M Alexander of this city arrived on the Celtic with her daughter and young son. They toured Italy and France in a large carriage drawn by several horses, avoiding motor cars to see both main roads and byways of Southern Europe. She calls it the best way to travel quaint routes.
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New York
H. M. Alexander
Italy
France
Europe
Mrs. Alexander
Blood test to identify criminal by血
Criminologists may identify perpetrators from a blood drop as Reichert at the University of Pennsylvania advances tests that distinguish white versus colored blood, male versus female corpuscles, and approximate age. Photography underpins the method, with publication promised soon and potential revisions to red and white cell theories.
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Philadelphia
Reichert
University of Pennsylvania
Physiological Laboratory
Living Tower on a Redwood Peak at Camp Meeker
A Wide World Magazine writer describes the Living Tower built atop a hill in Camp Meeker Sonoma County California. Four redwood trees forming a square support a six story tower with 12 by 12 foot floors connected by steel cables and stairs. The structure remained stable in wind and trees were not heavily altered.
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Wide World Magazine
Camp
Mrs Ava Willing Astor Returns to New York
Mrs Ava Willing Astor arrives from London with her daughter Muriel. They will stay in New York for fall and winter at the Fifth Avenue home of her son Vincent, who inherited the bulk of the Astor fortune following the late John Jacob Astor’s death on the Titanic.
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Ava Willing Astor
John Jacob Astor
New York
London
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