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...sooner have the anaesthetic merits of ethylene been successfully demonstrated by Chicago physiologists than another candidate for sleep producing honors arises in Germany. A writer in The London Lancet describes an anaesthetic discovered by Professor K. Gauss, of Freiburg, composed of 40% purified acetylene and 60% oxygen, deodorized by oil of pine. Already more than 500 operations are said to have been performed under it with no harmful results...
...next short play to be given by the Deu scher Verein is "Mein Papa," by Heinnch Teweles. The cast is as follows: Bernhard Gauss, H. H. Fox '03 Marie, his wife, R. C. Kibbey '04 Adolf Hill, Donald Gregg '03 Franziska Hill, P. V. A. Koechl '02 Sophie, servant, P. Hooper...
...youth he showed a taste for botany and when but ten years old wrote a lecture upon electricity, and his subsequent school career was one of high distinction. At nineteen he graduated from Harvard and for five years studied here and abroad. His study of astronomy was pursued under Gauss and in the scientific courses of Paris, also in the observatory there, then under the direction of Arago. On returning to America he was employed to determine astronomically the various geodetic stations of the U. S. coast survey. He was among the first to use electricity for the purpose...