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| Year | Stories |
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| 1885 | 1 |
1 story matching hernia
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- The Tragic Cost of the Shingle Boom
A horrific workplace accident in a local mill underscores the lethal danger facing Washington’s labor force at the height of the timber expansion.
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- The Miracle Medicine of Seattle
A nineteenth-century testimonial for a ‘Histogenetic’ cure highlights the era’s wild medical marketplace.
- A Laborer's Suit for Damages
A Great Northern Railway worker files suit after a negligent blast left him permanently injured.
- The Miracle at the Brunswick: A Seattleite’s Recovery from 'Incurable' Agony
After years of excruciating pain and failed treatments in San Francisco, a local resident credits Dr. J. Eugcup Jordan’s controversial 'Histocentric' system for saving their life.
- An 1889 Patient Testimonial for Dr. J. Eugene Jordan
A nineteenth-century resident of the Seattle area shares a harrowing, vivid account of surviving chronic illness through a controversial 'histogenetic' medical system.
- A Gruesome Case of Ear Trouble
A logger near Ladysmith undergoes a painful ordeal when a fly turns his ear into a nursery.
- A Sneeze Proves Dangerous for Injured Palouse Woman
A tragicomic recovery setback highlights the fragility of health on the frontier.
- Seattle Patient Praises Dr. Jordan's Histogenetic Treatment
A local man claims that after years of suffering and failed medical treatment, a 'Histogenetic' system cured his long-standing wounds and broken health.
- The Miracle Cure-Alls of 1870s Seattle
Before modern medicine, newspaper columns were filled with aggressive marketing for 'Pain Eradicators' and 'Radical Cures' that promised to fix everything from catarrh to death itself.