The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-09-02

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Water IS an Aneesthetic.
In long experimenting with grass solutions an
English biologist has noticed that putrefaction
does not occur in strong red or blue light, s only
simulated IN clear yellow, but really takes place
In dirty yellow light or In darkness. He has also
seen that workers behind dirty yellow screens
are subject to skin eruptions. This has sugges-
ted TO him the novel idea Of color treatment Of
disease dirty yellow Of the skin being assumed
TO indicate q degeneration Of the yellow fluids Of
the body-the bile. etc.-and to require yellow
restorative. like dandelion. lemon or sulphur,
while lack Of healthful redness shows the need
Of q red tonic and massage with red stone.
Blue lie needed for sblack blood" congestion
chills and to destroy mould fungus.
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Child nerves are demanding relief from siren
uous city life. DR.. @. G. Krauskopf's investiga-
lions have shown that one in every three of the
school children Of New York city lie q victim Of
some form Of nervous disorder. the manifesto
lions being uncomfortable nervous twitchings,
or sluggishness and mental depression, with ten
denotes toward melancholIa. The causes as
signed are various. They include the incessant
activity. impure atmosphere, life In fats, con-
tinual noise day and night, lack of proper nutrl-
ton, late hours and nearness to car lines.
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The new type Of telantograph of Isaac and
Membret. French engineers, includes Q desk
transmitter, on which the writing Is done with
an ordinary pencil, and an apparatus at the other
end reproducing the writing on roll Of paper.
Designs, music and signatures, 90 well rs mes
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reproduced IN Rouen. the results being much
superior to those attained from time to time
during many years Of experiment.
Carbon Is already known in the forms Of dla-
mond. graphite and lampblack or charcoal. The
new variety Of Constant and Henri Pelabon,
French chemists, is q woolly substance with mi
mute gray and black threads, and IL produced in
the intensely hot portion Of an open furnace
during the formation Of coke from material very
rich in tar. The dlaments are usually from .OO2
TO .003 Of an inch In length and .OOOl to .OO0 IN
thickness. the black being the finest. The gray
threads seem TO be cylindrical and formed of q
series Of superimposed cones covered with
glaze, while the black are dull, with rough sur
face sometimes appearing like succession of
very thin rings. The carbon wool does not be-
gin to burn, even in current Of oxygen, below
temperature OF about 5650 C.
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The so-called auto-pastel Photographic paper
OF London company Is prepared by coating
with permanent pigment and then rendering
sensitive by immersine in q five per cent solu-
ton OF oichromate of potash. The prepared pa
per Is exposed under negative in the usual
way An advantage Is the great simplicity of
development, which consists In immersion in
cold water. followed by dipping for two or three
minutes in water at 1902 to 1902 +. and then rent
ly using camel's- hairsbrush to tighten as de-
sired.
The ghostly ring that appears to surround the
earth, becoming visible at certain seasons A
cone OF light in the west after sunset or In the
east before sunrise, is thought by A. Hanskv.
French astronomer. to be an electrical phenom-
enon connected with the corona seen about the
sun during eclipses. Observed from Mont Blanc
on the 2lst and ed Of last September, this zodi-
seal light had the form Of a spherical triangle
with its apex near the ecliptic. and resemblances
suggest that it is prolongation of a coronal
streamer.
A glass snake reported by an English natural-
ist ate small frog on June IL, 1904 After this
IL refused all food but appeared in good health
and often very lively until about a week before
it's death on February2.
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Ine rear OF death, we are assured Is waning
Tnose who have witnessed the death aconv, in
many and varied forms tell us that IL IL not an
terrible after all. and even that dying is not AT
all painful. G. W.. Saleeby, an English writer.
points out thatin all but very exceptional cases.
such as accident, the immediate cause of death
Il the poisoning of the nervous centers BY car
Donic acid. This gas accumulates in the blood
through failure Of arrangements for its removal
and It has its usual anasthetic effect. Normal
ueasn = painless occurrence, usually preceded
~ sraoual loss OF consciousness. The accumu-
lation OF this gas often induces muscular CON-
fractions or spasms which are preceded by loss
OF consciousness, but which may have suggested
that the patient was in agony" The pain il
not merely triiing. It is nonresident. There
are exceptions, as In the agonizinR death bv
strycnnine poisoning. In which the mind is clear
70 the last; but even In accidents, as from bull
iee or oomo. numerous experiments and obser-
Vauons on thousands of cases have conclusively
proven that consciousness must have been lost
before pain could have been felt.
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The use of local an@thesia from the injection
or sterile water was begun By DR.. 8. g. Grant. an
American physician, in 1901, and has proven so
satisfactory in several hundred operations,
especially about the lower intestines, that other
an@sthetics have been practically discarded ex-
cept 10 the most serious cases. No unfavorable
consequences have been observed. The usual
danger from heart, lung and kidney compIica-
tons is avoided, with the straining and vomiting
after general ansesthesis and the pain and bleed
ing following are less than with medicinal local
an@sthetics.
That music tends to stop bleeding from wounds
is the singular observation of an army surgeon.
On bringing patient near music he noticed that
hemorrhage was greatly reduced or stopped,
and was eventually led to conclude that the air
vibrations induce faintness thus lessening heart
action and consequently reducing blood over
now.