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S. Weir Mitchell The Autobiography Of A Quack

And The Case Of George Dedlow

Biography & Autobiography
English
28741 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Both of the tales in this little volume appeared originally in the ``Atlantic Monthly'' as anonymous contributions. I owe to the present owners of that journal permission to use them. ``The Autobiography of a Quack '' has been recast with large additions. ``The Case of George Dedlow'' was not written with any intention that it should appear in print. I lent the manuscript to the Rev. Dr. Furness and forgot it. This gentleman sent it to the Rev. Edward Everett Hale. [more]

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Thornton W. Burgess The Adventures Of Poor Mrs. Quack

Adventure
English
16013 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Poor Mrs. Quack the Duck has suffered terrible misfortunes at the hands of hunters with guns. Peter Rabbit, [more]

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S. Weir Mitchell The Autobiography of a Quack

Adventure
English
28621 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia. He was son of a physician, John Kearsley Mitchell (1798–1858), and was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania in that city, and received the degree of M.D. at Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the Civil War he had charge of nervous injuries and maladies at Turners Lane Hospital, Philadelphia, and at the close of the war became a specialist in neurology. In this field Mitchell's name became prominently associated with his introduction of the rest cure, subsequently taken up by the medical world, for nervous diseases, particularly neurasthenia and hysteria.[1] The treatment consisted primarily in isolation, confinement to bed, dieting, electrotherapy and massage; and was popularly known as 'Dr Diet and Dr Quiet'.[1] His medical texts include Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences (1872) and Fat and Blood (1877). Mitchell's disease (erythromelalgia) is named after him. He also coined the term phantom limb during his study of an amputee.[2] Silas Weir Mitchell discovered and treated causalgia (today known as CRPS/RSD), a condition most often encountered by hand surgeons. He is considered the father of neurology as well as an early pioneer in scientific medicine. He was also a psychiatrist, toxicologist, author, poet, and a celebrity in America and Europe. His many skills and interests led his contemporaries to consider him a genius on par with Benjamin Franklin. His contributions to medicine and particularly hand surgery continue to resonate today. In 1866 he wrote a short story, combining physiological and psychological problems, entitled "The Case of George Dedlow", in the Atlantic Monthly.[3] From that point onward, Mitchell, as a writer, divided his attention between professional and literary pursuits. In the former field, he produced monographs on rattlesnake venom, on intellectual hygiene, on injuries to the nerves, on neurasthenia, on nervous diseases of women, on the effects of gunshot wounds upon the nervous system, and on the relations between nurse, physician, and patient; while in the latter, he wrote juvenile stories, several volumes of respectable verse (The Hill of Stones and Other Poems was published in 1883 by Houghton, Mifflin and Co.); he also wrote prose fiction of varying merit, which nonetheless gave him a leading place among the American authors of the close of the 19th century. His historical novels, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker (1897), The Adventures of François (1898) and The Red City (1909), take high rank in this branch of fiction. [more]

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Silas Weir Mitchell The Autobiography of a Quack

Fiction
English
28211 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 – January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer known for [more]

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Thornton W. Burgess The Adventures of Poor Mrs Quack

Crafts & Hobbies
English
16314 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years in books and his newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories". He was sometimes known as the Bedtime Story-Man. By the time he retired, he had written over 170 books and 15,000 stories for the daily newspaper column. Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts,[1] Burgess was the son of Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess Sr., a direct descendant of Thomas Burgess, one of the first Sandwich settlers in 1637. Thornton W. Burgess, Sr., died the same year his son was born, and the young Thornton Burgess was brought up by his mother in Sandwich. They both lived in humble circumstances with relatives or paying rent. As a youth, he worked year round in order to earn money. Some of his jobs included tending cows, picking trailing arbutus or berries, shipping water lilies from local ponds, selling candy and trapping muskrats. William C. Chipman, one of his employers, lived on Discovery Hill Road, a wildlife habitat of woodland and wetland. This habitat became the setting of many stories in which Burgess refers to Smiling Pool and the Old Briar Patch. [more]

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Thornton W. Burgess The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack

Fiction
English
15988 Words
Ages 18 and up
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Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was aconservationist and author of children's stories. Burgess [more]

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Rabbeca Robertson The animals

Nature
English
46 Words
Ages 3 and up
353
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This picture book is great for children who want to learn the sound of the animals. Let your [more]

Keywords: MOO!, QUACK!, ARF!, MEOW!

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Thornton W. Burgess The Adventures Of Lightfoot The Deer

Adventure
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Ages 18 and up
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PETER RABBIT MEETS LIGHTFOOT Peter Rabbit was on his way back from the pond of Paddy the Beaver deep in the Green Forest. He had just seen Mr. and Mrs. Quack start toward the Big River for a brief visit before leaving on their long, difficult journey to the far-away Southland. Farewells are always rather sad, and this particular farewell had left Peter with a lump in his throat,—a queer, choky feeling. [more]

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Norman H. Schneider Electric Gas Lighting

How to Install Electric Gas Ignition Apparatus

Fiction
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16742 Words
Ages 18 and up
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An induction coil or "spark coil" (archaically known as an inductorium or Ruhmkorff coil[1] after Heinrich Ruhmkorff) is a type of electrical transformer used to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage direct current (DC) supply.[1][2] To create the flux changes necessary to induce voltage in the secondary, the direct current in the primary is repeatedly interrupted by a vibrating mechanical contact called an interrupter.[1] Developed beginning in 1836 by Nicholas Callan and others,[1]the induction coil was the first type of transformer. They were widely used in x-ray machines,[1][3] spark-gap radio transmitters,[1][3] arc lighting and quack medicalelectrotherapy devices from the 1880s to the 1920s. Today their only common use is as the ignition coils in internal combustion engines, and in physics education to demonstrate induction. [more]

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