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...each cab, in three-inch gilt letters, was the name of a U. S. President, from President Washington to President Arthur.† This was no imitation of custom long obsolete in the U. S. but yet current in Great Britain, of naming locomotives. Nor was the festive painting a symptom of giddiness on the part of President Daniel Willard. Names and paints were part of a carefully considered policy to give individuality and therefore distinction to B. & 0. trains...
...prodigious type: "SUNNY CRAZY." (Mr. Browning's portrait stood for the "B" in "Bunny"). Shaking letters were used to print: "FLAMING YOUTH." Subtitle: "His Mania Causes Peculiar Love for Young Girls-Alienist." Text: "A famous [anonymous] alienist . . . diagnoses his case as 'pathological pedophilia,' a symptom of a disease of the brain classified as a sexual aberration. . . ." The Mirror, too, strove for features to please child minds-an "interview" (in mixed dialects) with Mr, Browning's pet African goose; a history of the case in prize fight vernacular. Stenographers and clerks were asked to vote on which...
...effects of rabies are the same in animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from...
...This symptom seems to the uninitiated like lockjaw-an entirely different disease...
...distinctions from orthodox therapy are fading, both because homeopathy has adapted much of the orthodox technique and because orthodox medicine has approximated some of the homeopathic ideas. Samuel C. F. Hahnemann (1755-1843) worked out the principle of similars-a large dose of a drug gave the same symptoms on the healthy human body as did a certain disease. Therefore that disease and that drug poisoned the body similarly. If a minute portion of the drug were given to a patient so diseased, the minute portion would stimulate the body to resist the disease. By "proving," by testing...