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Rural journalism began as a sideline for job printers. Its editorial basis was local gossip; its financial foundation was patent medicines-Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Sloan's Liniment, Beecham's Pills, Carter's Little Liver Pills, which were among the first national advertisers. Today there are 11,852 country papers, nearly half of them more than 50 years old, 151 more than 100 years...
...Burton H. Pugh, Mr. G. W. Thain, Mr. J. Wm. Cummins seem to be having a fit of indigestion over the publication of the picture on the front cover. May I suggest a dose of Carter's Little Liver Pills? Aren't some of the things that Americans hold dear the rights of free speech, free press...
...particles are less angular and smoother than those of vegetable (wood) charcoal." The carbon particles he declares "disappear rapidly from the blood stream after their injection and are found lodged in the various organs: first and above all in the lungs, but also in the spleen and liver and, to a less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous injection of charcoal-is an absolutely harmless procedure...
...Method is simplicity itself: insertion of a big hollow needle through a quarter-inch puncture into the cavity of the abdomen. The mobility of the liver, stomach, intestines, bladder, ovaries and womb is such that Dr. Ruddock can poke them around by means of a slender telescope inserted through the hollow needle. He can inspect them by the aid of electric lights placed at the tip of the telescope. swallowed into the stomach, or received into the colon. By means of special nippers he can snip out a piece of suspect tissue from an internal organ, immediately seal the wound...
Some of those views: "The surface of small coiled intestines . . . normally . . . appear with a slightly brownish hue, and peristaltic [movement] waves can be noted. ... A small liver with a wrinkled surface and hobnailed irregularities would suggest cirrhosis. Adhesions . . . may be spider web, lacelike, or massive bands. ... When the stomach wall is transilluminated, the stomach appears to observers like a Chinese lantern...