Category: Health & Medicine
In an article on the plague in this journal, in May, 1897, the writer answered this question as follows: "Yes, there is danger; but this, being foreseen, may be easily avoided. Thorough inspection of persons and disinfection of things from infected districts will keep the dise...
In these days of entrance examinations to various institutions of learning, it is interesting to read of the examination which young Washington was required to pass before he co...
10. Part 10He must also intersperse his singing with peculiar humming sounds--"hum-m-m-m." He will have to learn that the negro never neglects his family relations in his songs, and seldom...
6. Part 6The problem of the milk supply in the smaller cities is quite different from that of our larger cities. In the smaller cities, even those with populations of one hundred thousan...
9. Part 9Fig. 1 shows the occurrence, in per cent, of crimes of both the classes considered for each month of the year, together with the monthly meteorological means, computed from the...
5. Part 5The State of Washington sends no report. There is a provision in the South Carolina law providing that liquors shall be "pure"; but, as the State is the dispenser of liquors, th...
11. Part 11The effect of mortality on the whole is, moreover, not to diminish natality, but rather to favor it. The death of an adult leaves some position vacant, and makes room for the in...
2. Part 2Should the plague appear in any European country, the following rules were formulated to prevent its spread: (1) Whenever a case of the plague appears in any country the sanitar...
4. Part 4X. QUALITY INSPECTION.--In my paper in these pages, in 1894, I remarked, "If there is any such thing as a salutary liquor law, not derived from excise or police jurisdiction, it...
1. Part 1In an article on the plague in this journal, in May, 1897, the writer answered this question as follows: "Yes, there is danger; but this, being foreseen, may be easily avoided....
7. Part 7For these several reasons there is developing a different method of dealing with the problem. It is the well-known process of _Pasteurization_. But although the process has been...
13. Part 13The possession of a strong scent may, however, in many instances more than compensate for the absence of color. This is well illustrated in _Lepidium sativum_. The flowers are s...
15. Part 15It was the failure to find a northward continental extension to Franz-Josef Land, such as had been thought to possibly exist by Payer, which led Jackson to abandon all effort to...
14. Part 14Professor Schmidt's literary work covered a field of extraordinary breadth. Besides numerous works and text-books in systematic and anatomical zoölogy and life histories, he pub...
8. Part 8The next step is to study these products of deposition in their consolidated forms. At Parker Hill, Roxbury, a large quarry furnishes opportunity for the study of conglomerate,...
16. Part 16Two papers bearing upon instruction of the deaf, published by the Volta Bureau, Washington, are statistics, by Alexander G. Bell, of the relative use in the United States of the...
12. Part 12The "jack" (_Caran plumieri_) is found to be poisonous in some seasons of the year, and it is said that at such times two small red lumps appear in its gills. When they are susp...
17. Part 17=Relative Power of Fungicides.=--Mr. F. L. Stevens has published, in the Botanical Gazette, an account of experiments made for the purpose of establishing with some degree of ac...