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Identifier: ArenaMagazine-Volume35 (find matches)
Title: Arena magazine - Volume 35
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: B.O. Flower (ed.)
Subjects: progressivism -- United States liberalism reformism social reform Christian Socialism Gay 90s political commentary Benjamin Orange Flower Progressive Era social gospel
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e newtreatment believes that every case of appendi-citis, if early diagnosed, can be cured by thesilver solution without resort to the knife. A few years ago there was a veritable eraseamong surgeons over ovariotomy. Tens ofthousands of women became the victims ofthis mania. The next popular excuse for thesurgeons knife was appendicitis, and thoughthere are doubtless many times when opera-tions have been necessary to save life, therecan be no question but what numbers ofprecious lives have been sacrificed on accountof this later fad or craze, though probably thelist is not as great as the unnecessary deathsresulting from ovariotomy. It is to be hopedthat the new treatment may prove as success-ful as its discoverer anticipates and that themania for operations in all real or supposedcases of appendicitis may have had its day. Pneumonia: A Simple Remedy Recom-mended by a Health Board. Few acute diseases in our northern climateare so fatal as pneumonia. Every winter it Digitized by Google
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GE FROM THE CONFESSIONS OF A HOLIDAY-CHARITY PHILANTHROPIST. Drawn by Ryan Walker exprenly for The Arena.91 Digitized by Google 92 Direct-Legislation in Cartoon. levies a fearful tribute in every community,and few diseases have so successfully baffled medical science in its research for specifics.Many people will therefore read with interestthe strong recommendation recently made bythe health-board of Washington, Warren county, New Jersey, of the following simpletreatment for pneumonia, which accordingto a dispatch in the New York Herald isclaimed to be a sure cure if used in the earlystages: Take six or ten onions, according to sue,and chop fine, put in a large spider over a hot fire, then add the same quantity of rye meal and vinegar, enough to form a thick paste.Stir thoroughly, letting it simmer five or tenminutes. Then put it in a cotton bag largeenough to cover the lungs and apply to chestas hot as patient can bear. In about ten minutes apply another, and thus continue by reheating th

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