Dropsy lecture and remedies in Home Health notes
The article discusses dropsy as a symptom of underlying disease, stressing lung function, skin activity, and kidney relief. Practical home methods include lung stimulation, sweating, and skin care with vinegar, oil rubs, and poultices, plus dietary focus on easily converted to rich blood foods and lemon or acetic acid in water. It includes club notes and patient correspondence on hearing loss and cautions against quinine use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ltrelf
Yaseg
Conical Aeromotor Windmill Tested For Superior Power
La Nature reports L Ramakers claims conical aeromotor vanes with curved ends outperform other windmills in Danish tests under La Cour authority. Experiments show conical aerometer yields about 50 percent more power than ventocrat type and 29 percent more than older Soerensen designs, due to vane curvature and vane spacing effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Nature
Paris
L. Ramakers
Rannikers
P. la Cour
la Cour
Soereneend
la Cour Observatory
Soorensen
Messrs
Reuter and Schaumm
Kiel
New Silver-Based Treatment Reported for Appendicitis
A German correspondent details the use of collangol, a pure silver solution in water, in treating appendicitis. The antiseptic properties of silver are noted, with reports of internal and external use yielding rapid improvement in early cases, while peritoneal inflammation shows slower cures.
Unused doorway turned into built in storage ideas
An old doorway in unused aliting rooms is removed and the top filled with shelves. The hollow door space becomes pigeon-holes and drawers with a writing flap above, while the lower part houses a cupboard and drawers for versatile storage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
Complete and useful bureau with drawers and shelves
The piece describes a bureau designed for writing use with drawers and shelves to store belongings. It notes a lower section for large mounted photographs, upper drawers for small photos, and shelves for reference books, with the top shelf holding old china. the overall effect is delightful.
Automatic watering pot and its simple garden use
A Texas rancher used cut tin cans with holes at the bottom attached to sticks to water plants by capillary action. The device released water drop by drop to keep soil moist all day, enabling plants to thrive even with a scarce water supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. Moore
Radium and Babies in Rabies Treatment
The article notes that radium may influence rabies, possibly acting on the virus or the bitten animal. Experiments by Italians Trezzoni andhongiovanni show that four to 36 hours exposure of the virus to radium can create a vaccine effect. Injections into a rabbit eye saved some animals inoculated before treatment, while untreated ones all died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trezoni
Hongiovanni
Chemgelvos
New Automatic Gun Trial Off Sandy Hook
A McLean automatic gun was tested from the Mohawk 30 miles off Sandy Hook. The one pounder fired 75 to 100 rounds successfully, hitting targets from 1000 yards to three miles. Weighing 540 pounds, it was mounted on a tripod and fired at 100 rounds per minute with no apparent recoil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Revenue
Sandy Hook
Prisoners Poker in Libby and Macon Camp Feasts
Major D A Carpenter of Knoxville recounts a Charleston Newa Courier tale from the Civil War era. Fifty Union officers were held in Cunningham house during bombardment and exchanged with fifty Confederate officers on Morris Island. A Kentuckian named Cash led a poker mess that consistently won, funding a lavish daily dinner, including a Thanksgiving banquet costing 800 Confederate dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A. Carpenter
Knoxville
Tenn
Charleston
Saya
Libby
Macon
Morris Teland
Cunningham House
Broad Street
Morris
Carpenter
Maj. Carpenter
Cash
Comfort and misadventure of Highland regiments at a Cincinnati hotel
A party of four soldiers from the seventy-ninth Highlanders, billeted near Cincinnati, recounts a night at a city hotel. They paid for a "pig room" with two beds, enjoyed theater and oyster supper, but found the beds too soft. Unable to sleep, they overheard others awake, debated sleep, and finally fled back to barracks after the failed breakfast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubit
Seventy-Ninth Regiment of Highlanders
Mr. Todd
Cincinnati
Bunnay
John
Fellows
Darras Thle
Editorial Taffy in China From a Peking Letter
A Tigrisia newspaper relays a spoof editor letter from a native publication in Peking. The letter praises a manuscript with celestial imagery, pledges imperial praise, yet returns the work and begs mercy many times. It ends with a dramatic supplication and a tongue in cheek tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taffy
China
Tigrisia
Peking
Iustrious
Reminiscences of Logan in Civil War Service
The reminiscence recalls General Logan as popular in service. He was partly Irish and Indian in heritage, with coal black eyes and long black hair. The narrator, a veteran, recounts Logan’s impulsive nature, his role advocating veteran enlistment, and a wartime exchange about a staff position in Cairo. The tale includes a memory of delivering dire news as cannon sounded at Shiloh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Joba
Winer Bedford
Lippincott’s
Iriah
Cuba
Gen. Logan
Cairo
Washington
Logan Wan
Shiloh
Old Soldiers' Monument at Le Ray to be unveiled Memorial Day
A fine monument has been completed at Le Ray to honor old Civil War soldiers. The private soldier figure atop the stone base conveys the keen alert attitude of the Civil War soldier. The monument will be unveiled next Memorial Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Ray N
le Ray
What He Thought. Phrenologist and Army Claim War
Jacob Melrose, examined by San Francisco insanity commissioners, answered that a phrenologist called him a thinker and that he thought he was. He said he once served in the army until he began to think and that there was to be war, so he quit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Melrose
Commissioners of Insanity
San Francisco
Qonte
King George of Greece roams incognito and thanks sentry
King George of Greece, wandering incognito, ignored a sentry challenge and was kicked at but escaped with a rent in his overcoat. The next day he summoned the sentry, thanked him for devotion, and awarded him a minor military order. Chinese to make guts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Greece
Prize for Field Kitchen Prize for field kitchen prizes set for army use
The German government offers three prizes for the best field kitchens suited for army use. Each outfit must be compact enough to be carried on a horse with space remaining for the driver's luggage and forage.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Home Health
Banto Reeded
Lunga
Akin
Bellflower
H. Reeder
Laporte
Tan
Ilse
Lberty
Nestth
Clut
David H. Reeder
Tnd
Sorrensen
Sun Pry
Ael
Suenves
Scientife American
LE Roy, N.Y
London
Germany
Austria
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!