The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-10-28
"CHUFF.ER'S MITI''
The Popularity Of the Automobile
Makes New Malady Prom
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It Starts with a Scratch and Gaso-
:..ss i: lene and Dust Do the y. !:
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Z you can't get your gloves too big,
says Sunday-supp1emen oracle, CIV
ing advice to-. automo bilists. ...;
OF course the oracle is advising man,
and this football generation no longer
associates a small, hand with a gen
tleman. ...,.g j n >e- ..a., w.. ~
But there is additional basis for the
final observation of the guide just
quoted, to-wit: that Sometimes the
very biggest gloves will not prove big
enough" :>-e:ra52SilJ ~-. !.
1--WE got the automobile hand" said
yesterday a Kenwood man in goggles,
land can't wear any gloves at ALL
the "bubble'' hand, is the swollen
hand, the red, rough, unhappy hand.
It's commonlywor by auto" fiends
who are never satisfied that their car
is Just right and who would rather
tinker it than drive it. They bruise,
scratch or cut their: hands in the ma
chinery; the dust and gasoline do the
rest.
I 1.-THE DUST the street dust, mean,
| is much more dangerous than gaso-
lene, whenever the dust half tries to
be unpleasant. But it's the gasolene,"
| said a repairer near the Chamber of
Commerce to-day, cts the gasolene
that causes the most trouble. You
don't have to- get sgasolene in, every
cut Or scratch Just because you're
working on, q gasoleInae; auto,, bNt you're
Fif you allow that stuff to linger, it's
very likely to, inf1ame> the wound. Then
your hand will keep red and swollen
for several weeks, -,--. -. a..ss~. Sc
| 1.-THE dust is bad. too. When it
comes off the CITY streets it must be
full of those wiggly germs that only
doctors can catch sight of. I'm sur
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trouble than they do. But, tho I've
seen a good many repairers and auto
drivers with hands that looked as If
they'd been scrubbing the Kitchen
floor, I haven't heard of any mans
being seriously hurt
Several automobile dealers agreed
that there is, as a rule, no special
danger attending experiments with
hammers and Wrenches in search OF
that thing that makes the other thing
go, don't you know -.
But, naturally said one dealer
'When% it comes to Investigating
powerful motor that would usually oc-
cupy a room ten feet square, but that
is crowded, on an automobile, into
space about two by three feet, man
can hardly help getting scratched or
/ something. Yet there's always as
much lubricating oil as dirt to ge
mussed up on, and lubricating oil, j
imagine, is rather good for cuts, like
vaseline and other petroleum prod
ucts." .1gss e@'~. -
! A well-known- local surgeon said to-
day: "Gasolene irritates Commissions
and decorations and keeps them from
healing promptly, but it does no seri
BUS harm. Yes, I have nosdoubt tina
many lubricating oils would be sooth
}. ing and perhaps mildly antiseptic
The great danger of exposing LAGER
alton when working over an auto i
that tetanus, or lockjaw, germs ma!
get into the wound from the stree
. dust that is gathered by the oily ma
chinery. =.
$50 I would suggest that the auto
mobilist should carry in his car bot
| tie of antiseptic fluid of some sort will
} which he could battle any bru1se o.
/ cut. And he should also have LITTLE
} roll of antiseptic gauze to wrap arount
the wound or to fasten over 1t will
adhesive plaster. ' s4t' ,,, S: