“Twelve Ways to Commit Suicide,” from the American Medical Journal, reprinted in the Manhattan and de la Salle Monthly, 1875: Wearing of thin shoes and cotton stockings on damp nights and in cold, rainy weather. Wearing insufficient clothing,…
A maiden once, with eyes of blue,And mischief a suggestion,Propounded all her friends untoA geographic question.“Why all degrees of latitudeWere longer at th’ equator?”Their answers brought beatitudeAnd highly did elate her: For Mr. Smithson talked to her–With knowledge…
Early editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica accepted Noah’s ark as real, to the point of discussing how the animals were arranged and fed: Bishop Wilkins computes all the carnivorous animals equivalent, as to the bulk of their bodies,…
