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Died. Horace Andrew Saks, 43, co-founder and Vice President of the famed department store, Saks & Co.; at Mt. Sinai Hospital, Manhattan, of septic poisoning. In leading Manhattan dailies he was publicly mourned in paid advertisements by rival merchants- Abraham & Straus, Stern Bros., Lord & Taylor, James McCreery & Co., Franklin Simon & Co., Gim- bel Bros., Oppenheim-Collins...
...Some despatches (unverified) stated that he refused to be operated upon, because his religion forbade it; died from septic poisoning, caused by a boil on his neck...
There are innumerable other septic sheets, selling at from 10? to 25?. which fall roughly into one of the above classifications. Their readers are of two kinds: curious adolescents, repressed adults. To the former, they supply a vicious stimulation of impulses normally dormant, a concrete embodiment of restless speculations and images, and an incentive for unhealthy physiological experimentation. In the latter, they nurse that weakness for vicarious sensuality which is an invariable characteristic of the pervert and the frustrate. Sane people, recognizing the menace of this pestilence of pornography, register, here and there, a recognizable protest, of. which the most...
...Septic poisoning...
...Named, like Listerine, after the famous surgeon, Sir Joseph Lister, originator of the Listerian treatment for the septic infection of wounds...