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...translators of the Revised Standard Version have benefited by a whole modern cycle in Biblical scholarship. In the last 70 years, scholars and archaeologists have dug out of the sands of Egypt and the Holy Land a score of manuscripts, most of them far earlier than anything the17th century translators of the Bible knew about...
French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...
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