The National Magazine. New Series. a Monthly Review. February 1898

A movable stepladder on one of the facades firms the entrance : on the right and on the left two rooms a bath and lavatory and a kitchen. [...] In the kitchen which has a special entrance at the back of the vehicle hammocks are slung for the cook and engineer. [...] At present a disease is regarded as an invasion of the organism by a parasite finishing in the prisoning of the first by the execretions of the second. [...] Krans states that the defect is due to imperfect vocal organs but is capable of correction ; in the course of a few weeks the doctor treats the larynx orthopedically as it were: he places an apparatus in the larynx to re-establish the normal disposition of the vocal chords so as already remarked the eunuch becomes a virile voice. [...] Chloroform till recently folloing the assertions of Perrin and Lallemand merely remained in the system—the blood the liver and the brain—for a short time and was duly eliminated.