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Treatment. No known drug will kill the parasite. The patient should take castor oil or calomel (under medical supervision), then epsom salts and intestinal antiseptics. Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae. The disease is rarely fatal, yet always uncomfortable...
Every morning at seven, the Weather permitting, His Grace the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, Baron Epsom of Epsom, rides out over Epsom Downs in what the Times has declared to be "perhaps the only private carriage in England which is still guided by postilions...
...Accordingly it was but natural that a sensation was produced last week when Lord Rosebery's early morning drive over Epsom Downs was suddenly cut short by the instantaneous and unexplained death of one of the horses attached to his carriage. The postilion who was riding the horse sprawled upon the road. The other horses snorted, plunged, backed, tangled up the harness. Aghast at the possible consequences to their aged master, the other postilions quieted the horses as soon as possible, rushed to assist the white-haired Victorian statesman from his carriage, bundled him safely into a motor, sighed with...
...lbis has that bilious and mangy appearance that we hear was characteristic of the late lamented William Jennings Bryan at the Dayton trial, and by the same token seems to be headed for silence. At least unless it takes a brace and buys itself a bottle or two of Epsom salts...
...that he cherished two ambitions: 1) to be Premier; 2) to win the Derby. With the first he has not yet finished; with the second "his cares are now all ended." The day was wet and forbidding. Great crowds of hundreds of thousands of people found their way to Epsom Downs. But pretty frocks and dashing sport clothes, so important to Derby Days, were all wrapped up in raincoats, and the only splash of color was that supplied by the gypsies. As the field of 27 faced the barrier, the good-natured crowd "downed umbrellas" in order that all might...