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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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andoperates a relay, which connects themotor with the power circuit. —^r- ^ — ^ t i f( !~1 V 1 w Double track llOvA. C. installation Vt (D;^^ Trolley contactor circuit.Trolley voltage TJ= ^ ^ M) V JTJ Third-rail contactor circuit.Third-rail voltage A Western Railroads ClayLocomotives HEN a western railroad wanted toconvey the information to thetraveling public that its locomotiveswere of the newest and biggest design itcalled in Emory P. Seidcl, the sculjitor,and asked him to make models of them.Mr. Seidel searched some time for a suit-able substance out of which to constructhis models and finally decided upon agreasy composition from Italy whichclosely reseml)les clay. \hv models arefive feet in height and represent threeweeks work on the part of the sculptor.The cost was li\ e hundred dollars. It took a sculptor three weeks to fashionthese locomotives in a clay composition A h «^ ^i^^^H \ 1 j^^l^ 5si N^ F 3 •jo^s^rtMi^m Chinese Doctors and Their Ways Bv Franz Olio Kocl •11
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A Chinese street doctor examining hair from several youthful callers. The physiciandiagnoses a disease from a patients hair and then proceeds to drive his needles THE native Chinese doctor is acuriosity. He passes no examina-tion; he requires no qualifications;he may have failed in business and setup as a physician. In his new professionhe requires little stock in trade, medicalinstruments being almost unknown. Acupuncture, as it is called, is one ofthe nine branches recognized in medicalscience among the Chinese; it is ofmost ancient origin, having been in usefrom time immemorial. There are threehundred and thirty-seven bod> markingsto be learned; every square inch on thehuman surface has its own name, andsome relationship to the internal parts,purely imaginary, is assigned to it. Theuser is cautioned against wounding thearteries; hence he must know theposition of the blood \essels. By closestudy of a manikin pierced with holes, the Chinese physician learns where todrive his needl

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