From the Canada Lancet (1899), volume XXXI, no. 8, p. 1121: Neuroses from Piano Practice — Dr. Wartzold (in Jour. d’ Hyg.) blames abuse of the piano practice for the chlorosis and neuroses from which so many young girls suffer. Girls, he says, should not be compelled to hammer on the keyboard before they are […]
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Broke a bone skiing? Get a skiagraph.
A century ago, the word “skiagraph” was sometimes used in place of “roentgenograph”, what we now call a radiograph or x-ray image. The idea was that a “photograph” represented light reflected off the surface of the thing being photographed, while a “skiagraph”, from the Greek for “shadow”, represented a silhouette. In a 1904 article(*), Dr. […]