Remarkable Remedies and the Power of Faith
In Chambers' Journal anecdotes compare piper legends and medical quirks. A Highlander mockingly cites charms to heal a sick master, while an Egyptian grandmother trusts scraps of paper as medicine. Dr Brown's patient swallows a prescription. belief and faith drive cures more than actual drugs. An Arab beggar gains sight after receiving a Seidlitz powder and poultice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Scott
Jduhbu Uruce
Mighlander
Dan Gordon
Litle
Lima
John Brown
Edinburgh
Frank
Chambers’ Journal
Notable Brummell At Waller's Club In Early 1800s
At Waller's club circa 1807 Brummell ruled gambling with lavish snuffboxes and a grand taste for display. He controlled play at Macao tables, once winning £1,500 in minutes and gifting £750 to Sheridan to send him home. A tense scene ended with Brummell threatening a pistol and Bligh joking about the menus. The Year Round notes the group’s dangerous bravado.
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Waller’s Club
Brammell
Raikes
Macao
Waller’s
Tom Sheridan
Brummell
Tom
Sheridan
Bramwell
Bligh
Sally
Brammett
Tam
Paper lace dazzles Paris fashion in stage costumes
A critic recalls Alademoiselle's lace in a Paris stage costume for Mme Jodie. The skirt featured a remarkable tabber of lace worth the equivalent of two dollars, printed on paper with stamped chains of arches, resembling real lace. Parisian actresses wear such paper lace widely, valued for its durability and visual impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Mme, Jodie
Quote on human discontent and desire
A fragment remarks that the sit-the peevish, niggard, dissatisfied, passionate, suspicious, and those who live upon others’ means are forever unhappy. The line reflects a view of perpetual discontent across varied temperaments.
Laughing gas turns patients combative and dreamy, say dentists
A Sun article reports nitrous oxide effects in Waterville Maine and elsewhere. It notes patients become more belligerent or jolly depending on temperament and recounts incidents of chairs disrupted, mirrors struck, and bruised walls. Dentists use pleasant surroundings and attendants to soften reactions and note dreams and head buzzing as common experiences.
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Waterville
Maine
Manhattan College of Dentistry
C. Q. Colton
L. M. Slocum
Bil Colton
Cara
Slocum
Alfred Goodsell
Odd Bits From Across the World and Nearby
A collage of curious notes recalls old Boston merchants, prairie wells, Japanese student leaders at Vassar, and ice supply machines sent to Central Asia. Tales range from comic theater mishaps in Marseilles to a Mount Washington ascent by women, a whiskey theft in Pa., a mob-justice incident in Tennessee, a dog that accompanies travels, and local oddities from Brookhaven and Kentucky.
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Central Asia
Marseilles
London
England
Lynnville
Tenn
Cleveland
Sam
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CAG
Boston
Vassar College
Dougleass Jerrold
Milton
Francs
Cincinnati Gas Company
Wyrm
Mount Washington
Thomas Bach
Garrard County
Harrodburg
Brookhaven
Miss
J.D. Blue
Lincoln County
Blue
Blue Fou
Kentucky
Browns
Tony
Ad. O
Brown Ese CO
Baltimore
Asis
THE
D. Shear
Ct.s
Cts
DD. Shaar
Warren County
David Ridelsperger
Front Street
Roscoe Hall
Warren, Pa
A. C. McAlpine
Warren
Berkstresser& McAlpine
Merck’s
Carver House
Neill
Attorneys At Law
Warren, Ba
New Exchange Block
Leaphart Brown Harness Shop
W. G. Truneey
Fice
Osmer, Dale & Freeman
Scofield
Osmer
Dale & Freeman
Ofice
Liberty Street
W. W. Day
L. A. Freeman
P. W. Hurray
Merck & Co
Brug
J. M. Davies
Warren, Fa
Baptist Church
Brown & Stone
Second Street
First National Bank
E. Brown
C. W. Stone
Wetmore, Noyes & Hinceley
Johnson Exchange
L. DT. Wetmore
H.noyer
W.D. Hinceley
Christian Smith
Desler
National Wa Pa
Dinsmoor & Cable, Stromerss At Law
Water Street
JAS. Cable
Exchange Hotel
George H. Leonhart
Gus Mull
Palace
Liberty St
J.D. Danforth
Variety Hall
Ball & Thompson
Beatty Block
D. I. Ball, Puublic
Thompson
Dist
Reverdy B. Stewart
Library Hall
Richard B. Stewart
A. J. Davis
Second and
Liberty Atreats
Eben N. Ford
G. Alr
Armory of
Co. I
G. W. Kinnzan
W. AH. Taytox
WH. da. Greaves
Hail
Episcopal Church
Wilbur& Schnur
Law
Srst
Postoffice
W. W. Wileus
Sornur
R.T. Tunstall
Warren Hotel
Eels Star Laundry
Pierce
Diamond Block
Troy
Peeroce
Pabel
Pricea
G. W. Warn
Glade, Pa
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