Word: skin
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...with his powerful new battery at the Jefferson Laboratory, Professor Trowbridge has recently made a discovery of great interest to doctors and the public in general. In previous experiments with the X-ray, the back of the hand has been placed near the tube, with the result that the skin has been burned off in a painful and dangerous manner. Professor Trowbridge has discovered that the same result is produced by brush discharges in the air. This shows that the burn is due to powerful electrification, and not necessarily to the X-rays...
LOST.- One gray deer-skin glove between Massachusetts averue and Memorial Hall. Finder will please return to Crimson office...
...Webster you will mark something little skin to the methods of today. I never had the good fortune to hear Mr. Webster. I saw him only once, but the inborn power of oratory that stood in his massive figure I could take for granted. I saw him standing on a corner and I can not remember that he was doing anything but the people in passing looked at him as if he were Bunker Hill monument...
LOST.- A brown alligator skin pocket book, between Harvard Square and Harvard Bridge on Massachusetts avenue, containing some money and various papers. Good reward Finder will please return the same to T. M. Hastings, 6 Little's Block...
Professor James then spoke of the discoveries from experimental investigations and the more common results, or accompanying effects of inveterate drinking. Although alcohol warms the skin by increasing the circulation, yet in a person who is paralyzed by liquor the temperature of the body is found to be several degrees below normal. The really strong plea for drinking is that it acts as an aid to conviviality, also that it helps at a crisis, but though it may produce temporary happiness, the following effects will be deeper melancholy and though it may stimulate for the moment, it leaves its victim...