Friday, February 11, 2005
Tidbits from 100 Years Ago at JAMA
"Notwithstanding the popular jocosity on the subject, there is no special relationship or alliance between the medical profession and the undertakers."
"An immense amount of dust is daily inhaled by those living in a great city. No additional evidence on the point is needed."
"Furs and fur rugs were found to contain from 20 to 1,700 times as much arsenic as would be allowed by the law of Massachusetts."
"At present, and probably for a long time in the future, the continuance of life to one hundred years or over is a happy--or shall we say an unhappy--accident, and being a centenarian, with its physical infirmities, is at best a mighty lonesome condition."
"An immense amount of dust is daily inhaled by those living in a great city. No additional evidence on the point is needed."
"Furs and fur rugs were found to contain from 20 to 1,700 times as much arsenic as would be allowed by the law of Massachusetts."
"At present, and probably for a long time in the future, the continuance of life to one hundred years or over is a happy--or shall we say an unhappy--accident, and being a centenarian, with its physical infirmities, is at best a mighty lonesome condition."
