Two Curious Cases of Self-Deception and Torture
The report outlines two patients in a hospital study. John Burke, believed stabbed, showed no internal injury yet endured pain and was cured quickly, illustrating imagination’s role in disease. Louis Fitzgerald feigned epilepsy and anesthesia, later confessing after a surgical test revealed deception and an artificial neck pouch.
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Saws & New York
Cincinnati Enquirer
John Burke
Eastman
Burke
Tom
Tere
Bellevue Hospital
Connor
Slaughter House
Louis Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
St. Mary
St. Francis Hospital
Coudert
Why They Lead Dr Pierces Medicines Ads
Dr Pierce’s medicines outsell others due to superior curative properties. The Golden Medical Discovery is specific for catarrh and throat lung diseases when used early. Money refunded if it does not benefit or cure. Pierce’s Pellets offer gentle laxative or active cathartic effects at 25 cents. If a doctor makes a mistake, he earns payment.
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Lane
Silas Lane
Rocky Mountains
Butterfly Visitors Stir Up a Brooklyn Balcony Swarm
A Brooklyn resident reports a chrysalis hatching into a butterfly that attracted a swarm of fifty nearby butterflies. The visitors circled the cage and window, then joined the captive as it finally took flight westward. The letter poses questions about origin and purpose of the unfamiliar swarm.
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W. A. O. Panui
Brooklyn
New York Sun
Salt Use Across Cultures And Eskimo Diets
The New York Sun notes Eskimo people in Northern Alaska live on fish with no salt and reject salted meat, while many African tribes view salt as essential. It mentions coastal evaporation and salt mines on the east coast of Albert Nranza as sources of trade.
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Alaska
Albert Nranza
New York Sun
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Oregon
Ad- Oregon Im'‘igrat’n Board
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Tion
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Dobbins
Tansill
Hood
J. W. Westcrorp
Quincy
UL Hood
C. L. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mass
Palliser
Palliser, Palliser & Co
Euit
Times
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Peevenens
Architect CO
Savdewater St
Geers & Sons
Atlanta
Gake
B. F. Jonmosbon & CO
Main St
Richmond
Repin
Peerless
Erate
An Howe
Mamenati
Buffalo
Wien
Dicks le
Aliae
MED
Piu Atlas
Oo. OC
Woolley
Frazer Best
Johnstown
Paragon Book Coo
Vandewater Street
W. L. Douglas
L. Deu
Seveta
Bert
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Mater
Brockton, Mass
Joseph H. Hunter
Dr. Lobb
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Trac
Washington, D. C
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Cal
Cincinnati
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