Tuesday, August 25, 2015

She Had a Glow About Her

Sometimes, whether through fatigue or religious fervor or propaganda, some become disenchanted with science and its value. Here is something to perk such victims of ennui up, from the July 1812 issue of The Emporium of Arts and Sciences (vol. 1, no. 3):

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This is a summary of an article explaining the occurrence and the cause of spontaneous combustion following drinking. It does go on in some detail as to why women are so afflicted and not men but the hard science might bore the reader.

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