...spark obtained by striking fire into tinder from a flint and steel. This was in almost universal use up to the end of the first quarter of the present century, when several ingenious inventions followed each other in rapid succession, and displaced it so completely...

...list. The deaths from continued fever, which in 1863 were little over 300, amounted in 1866 to 1,061, and up to the end of the first quarter of the present year they were nearly as numerous. Diarrhoea also, another certain indication of a poisoned atmosphere,...

...list. The deaths from continued fever, which in 1863 were little over 300, amounted in 1866 to 1,061, and up to the end of the first quarter of the present year they were nearly as numerous. Diarrhoea also, another certain indication of a poisoned atmosphere,...

...spark obtained by striking fire into tinder from a flint and steeL This was in almost universal use up to the end of the first quarter of the present century, when several ingenious inventions followed each other in rapid succession, and displaced it so completely...

...processes of life, in health and disease have made in the last forty years, let me review a little history. Up to the end of the first quarter of the present century the circulation of the blood was believed to be the chief vital act of the organism, and the tissues...

...cleaned, put together, and painted, and so preserved them, we may hope, to many a succeeding generation. Up to the end of the first quarter of the present century St. Andrew's Church was a forest — pews here, pews there, galleries full of pews, pews everywhere....

...destroyed. Such was the aspect presented by the Abbey, to the archaeological students who visited it, almost up to the end of the first quarter of the present century. There is a popular aphorism to the effect that when things come to the worst they are likely to mend....

...inconvenience and evil, to use names of modern science, such, for instance, as ferrous and ferric sulphate. Up to the end of the first quarter of the present century, all or nearly all the improvements which took place in pharmacy — that is in the production and definition...

...light, and which seem such an indispensable adjunct of civilization, are of very recent introduction. Up to the end of the first quarter of the present century almost the only method used in civilized countries was that of striking sparks upon tinder by means...

...worked by slave labor, that they learned that they had lowered their social importance by so doing. Up to the end of the first quarter of the present century, Connecticut was still substantially an agricultural State. Every town of any considerable size had...