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This page presents medical treatment from an era before modern medicine. The remedies described are ineffective against the conditions named, and some of the ingredients or doses are harmful. Do not use them to treat any illness; consult a qualified medical professional.
This information has been left in for historical purposes but should not be acted upon.
Blue Island
a city of Illinois in Cook co. It is on the Illinois Central, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Chicago and Grand Trunk, and the Baltimore and Ohio Chicago Terminal railroads. The city is a suburb of Chicago and is about 2 miles south of the limits of that city. It is an important industrial center and has stone quarries, wire works, smelting works, etc. Pop. (1910) 8,043; (1920) 11,424.
BLUE JAY (cyanocitta cristata), a common North American bird of the crow family, and occupying in the New World the place held by the jays (garrulus) of the Old. In the United States the blue jay is sometimes persecuted, sometimes protected. They are mischievous birds, but devour large numbers of injurious caterpillars. The com- BLUE PILL (pilula hydrargyri), a pill made by rubbing two ounces of mertill the globules disappear, and then adding one of licorice root to form a mass. It is given when the secretion of the liver is defective as a purgative.