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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
8
A historic surgical kit features kangaroo tendon threads for four week holds, silk for up to six months, and silver wire that resists destruction. Surgeons select threads by wound healing time and use needles shaped as spears javelins bayonet points and bodkins.
Aluminium shows ongoing advances in lightness, ductility, and strength. Mixed with gold it yields a ruby tinted decorative metal. A thin sheet can deflect a bullet, wire is drawn to silk-like thinness, and violins gain high tone. Racing shells use one nineteenth inch sheets and resist tarnish and acids. It guides race horses, seals wounds with wire, and endures without corrosion.
The passage recalls an 1894 Argentine poisoning autopsy and a London Aldershot gun painting trial. It notes a cholera case linked to a Dr Beaurigard experiment, plus an anecdote about Miss Death undergoing an appendicitis operation by Dr Dye with nurses Payne and Grone, all illustrated in period tone.
A Yorkshire village was sold at Stockton for £1510 including a farm house and buildings with sixteen acres of grass land two dwellings four cottages several small gardens and a blacksmiths shop. The auctioneer noted the phrase my village up in Yorkshire added value beyond the price.
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