Health and Hygiene

[/caption] The area in which I live has a large population of deer ticks and Lyme disease is quite prevalent.  I have known people who developed the disease and if it is not caught right […]

The subject of thermometers came up in a discussion with a younger friend and I soon realized that most people today depend on digital or throw away thermometers.  When we were kids and our parents

Ship’s Medicine Chest and Medical Aid at Sea is a book that has been publish by the U.S. government for over 100 years, it is designed for use on ships at sea that do not

In 1818 the first human to human blood transfusion was successfully completed.  Early transfusions were risky and often resulted in the death of the patient.  It was not until 1901, when the Austrian Karl Landsteiner discovered human

[/caption] My mother was in her early twenties during WW2 and lived in England.  Talking with her about her experiences during rationing and other shortages has been helpful to me.  One of the things that

[/caption] Do you have any means of detecting radiation?  I recently was talking to someone at a local fire department and found out that they still had a bunch of left over radiation detectors from the

There are first aid kits and then there are medical kits.  Most of the premade first aid kits I see on the market are merely collections of a few bandaids and a little antiseptic with

Yesterday a friend and I got to looking at a steam juicer and realized that they can be used as an improvised small still.  The size we have would distill somewhere around a ½ gallon

The shelf life of drugs is a question for many of us.  This is something I have been attempting to research for some time.  In the whole I have found a lot of anecdotal information but

[/caption] What do you do when you work in the yard and go beyond your limit; I mean your muscle limit? Sore muscles are not fun, actually it’s down right painful. My husband has been