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Ariel from Vanellope with Princesses from Ralph Breaks the Internet Doll Set - Disney Store Purchase - Deboxed - Standing - Full Front View by drj1828

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Someone asked for more detailed shots of the Ariel mini doll, so here she is.

All dolls fully deboxed. It turns out that the dolls with the larger shoes (boots or sneakers) can free stand, although not very stably. If you take the rubber bands off the shoes of the other dolls, they can also free stand, but are even less stable than the ones with large shoes. For the photos with the dolls standing, I used small Kaiser stands. The Princesses are posed in order of their movie releases.

Deboxing of the 5 dolls on the long bench: Rapunzel, Snow White, Vanellope, Aurora and Ariel. Their elbow joints have much greater range of movement than the 12 inch Classic Princess dolls. Their knee joints are internal, with 1 click forward, and 3 back. They can bend their knees back a full 90 degrees, so can sit up with their feet on the floor and their legs together. Ariel had her legs bent backward and splayed out awkwardly in the box pose. Her legs can't stay together right after I unboxed her, so I crossed her legs at the ankles. None of them can free stand, except for Vanellope.

The Comfy Princess mini doll set. I bought it online when it was released on October 19. There are 12 Disney Princesses plus Vanellope, all wearing casual clothing. Some of them are also holding accessories. The Princesses are 6.5 inches tall and have neck, shoulder, elbow, hip and knee joints. They are far more posable and detailed the previous mini dolls from Disney Store or Disney Parks, which an inch shorter at 5.5 inches. These are more expensive as well, being about 8 dollars each. The set sold out the weekend it came out, came back and is now sold out again. I really love these dolls, even with their mostly goofy expressions.

I feel that they are worth $100, but of course $75 (due to a 25% off online sale) is a much better price. They really look almost as detailed as Classic 12 inch dolls, with much better hair styling, clothing and articulation than the old mini dolls. I especially like the improvement in their arms and legs.

Vanellope with Princesses from Ralph Breaks the Internet Doll Set

US Disney Store

Released online 2018-10-19

Purchased online 2018-10-19

Received 2018-10-30

$99.95

Item No. 6002040900592P

Vanellope is hanging out with her new BFFs, the Princesses from Ralph Breaks the Internet, in this 13-piece doll set. This fun set shows the Princesses in the contemporary way they're portrayed in the movie!

Safety

WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small Parts. Not for children under 3 years.

Magic in the details

Please note: Purchase of this item is limited to 2 per Guest

• 13-Piece Set includes: Vanellope, Moana, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Mulan, Snow White, Merida, Tiana, Aurora, Pocahontas, Ariel, Jasmine, and Belle

• Each Princess is dressed as she appears in Ralph Breaks the Internet

• Accessories include: Jasmine's inhaler, Cinderella's broken slipper, Aurora's mug, Moana's coconut drink, and Snow White's glasses

• Rooted hair (except for Vanellope, who has sculpted hair)

• Princesses are fully poseable

• Vanellope has articulation in her arms and legs

• Inspired by Disney's Ralph Breaks the Internet

The bare necessities

• Plastic / polyester

• Vanellope: 3'' H

• Disney Princesses: approx 6 1/2'' H each

• Imported

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Title: United States Naval Medical Bulletin Vol. 8, Nos. 1-4, 1914

Creator: U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

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Date: 1914

Language: eng

Table of Contents

Number 1

Preface v

Special articles:

The application of psychiatry to certain military problems, by W. A.

White, M. D 1

Schistosomiasis on the Yangtze River, with report of cases, by R. H.

Laning, assistant surgeon, United States Navy 16

A brief discussion of matters pertaining to health and sanitation,

observed on the summer practice cruise of 1913 for midshipmen of the third

class, by J. L. Neilson, surgeon, United States Navy 36

Technique of neosalvarsan administration, and a brief outline of the

treatment for syphilis used at the United States Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., by

W. Chambers, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 45

Some notes on the disposal of wastes, by A. Farenholt, surgeon, United States

Navy 47

The medical department on expeditionary duty, by R. E. Hoyt, surgeon, United

States Navy 51

A new brigade medical outfit, by T. W. Richards, surgeon, United States

Navy 62

Early diagnosis of cerebrospinal meningitis; report of 10 cases, by G.

F. Cottle, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 65

Comments on mistakes made with the Nomenclature, 1913, Abstract of patients

(Form F), and the Statistical report (Form K), by C. E. Alexander, pharmacist,

United States Navy 70

Classification of the United States Navy Nomenclature, 1913, by C. E. Alexander,

pharmacist, United States Navy 75

On the methods employed for the detection and determination of

disturbances in the sense of equilibrium of flyers. Translated by H. G. Beyer,

medical director, United States Navy, retired 87

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Additions to the pathological collection 107

Additions to the helminthological collection 107

Suggested devices:

A portable air sampling apparatus for use aboard ship, by E. W. Brown, passed

assistant surgeon, United States Navy 109

A new design for a sanitary pail 111

Clinical notes:

A case of paresis, with apparent remission, following neosalvarsan, by R.

F. Sheehan, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 113

Case reports from Guam, by E. O. J. Eytinge, passed assistant surgeon, United

States Navy 116

Stab wound of ascending colon; suture; recovery, by H. C. Curl,

surgeon, United States Navy 123

Perforation of a duodenal ulcer, by H. F. Strine, surgeon, United

States Navy 124

Two cases of bone surgery, by R. Spear, surgeon, United States Navy 125

Editorial comment:

Brig. Gen. George II. Torney, Surgeon General United States Army 127

Medical ethics in the Navy 127

Medical officers in civil practice 128

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. —Some anatomic and physiologic principles concerning

pyloric ulcer. By H. C. Curl. Low-priced clinical thermometers; a warning. By.

L. W. Johnson. The value of X-ray examinations in the

diagnosis of ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. The primary cause of

rheumatoid arthritis. Strychnine in heart failure. On the treatment of

leukaemia with benzol. By A. W. Dunbar and G. B. Crow 131

Surgery. — Surgical aspects of furuncles and carbuncles. Iodine

idiosyncrasy. By L. W. Johnson. Rectus transplantation for deficiency of

internal oblique muscle in certain cases of inguinal hernia. The technic of

nephro- pyelo- and ureterolithotomy. Recurrence of inguinal hernia. By H. C.

Curl and R. A. Warner 138

Hygiene and sanitation. —Ozone: Its bactericidal, physiologic and

deodorizing action. The alleged purification of air by the ozone machine. By E.

W. Brown. The prevention of dental caries. Gun-running operations in the

Persian Gulf in 1909 and 1910. The croton bug (Ectobia germanica) as a factor

in bacterial dissemination. Fumigation of vessels for the destruction of rats.

Improved moist chamber for mosquito breeding. The necessity for international

reforms in the sanitation of crew spaces on

merchant vessels. By C. N. Fiske and R. C. Ransdell 143

Tropical medicine. —The transmissibility of the lepra bacillus by the

bite of the bedbug. By L. W. Johnson. A note on a case of loa loa. Cases of

syphilitic pyrexia simulating tropical fevers. Verruga peruviana, oroya fever

and uta. Ankylostomiasis in Nyasaland. Experimental entamoebic dysentery. By E.

R. Stitt ... 148

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —The relation of the spleen

to the blood destruction and regeneration and to hemolytic jaundice: 6, The

blood picture at various periods after splenectomy. The presence of tubercle

bacilli in the feces. By A. B. Clifford and G. F. Clark 157

Chemistry and pharmacy. —Detection of bile pigments in urine. Value of the

guaiacum test for bloodstains. New reagent for the detection of traces of

blood. Estimation of urea. Estimation of uric acid in urine. By E. W. Brown and

O. G. Ruge 158

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Probable deleterious effect of salvarsan

on the eye. Effect of salvarsan on the eye. Fate of patients with

parenchymatous keratitis due to hereditary lues. Trachoma, prevalence of, in

the United States. The exploratory needle puncture of the maxillary antrum in

100 tuberculous individuals. Auterobic organisms associated with acute

rhinitis. Toxicity of human tonsils. By E. J. Grow and G. B. Trible 160

Miscellaneous. —Yearbook of the medical association of

Frankfurt-am-Main. By R. C. Ransdell 163

Reports and letters:

Notes on the Clinical Congress of Surgeons. By G. F. Cottle, passed

assistant surgeon, United States Navy 167

Number 2

Preface v

Special articles:

Report of the fourteenth annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society,

by J. R. Phelps, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy. 171

Typhoid perforation; five operations with three recoveries, by G. G.

Holladay, assistant surgeon, Medic al Reserve Corps, United States Navy 238

A satisfactory method for easily obtaining material from syphilitic

lesions, by E. R. Stitt, medical inspector, United States Navy 242

An epidemic of measles and mumps in Guam, by C. P. Kindleberger, surgeon,

United States Navy 243

The feeble-minded from a military standpoint, by A. R. Schier, acting assistant

surgeon, United States Navy 247

The Towne-Lambert elimination treatment of drug addictions, by W. M. Kerr,

passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 258

Medical experiences in the Amazonian Tropics, by C. C. Ammerman, assistant

surgeon, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Navy 270

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Additions to the pathological collection 281

Additions to the helminthologieal collection 281

Suggested devices:

An easy method for obtaining blood cultures and for preparing blood

agar, by E. R. Stitt, medical inspector, and G. F. Clark, passed assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 283

Humidity regulating device on a modern battleship, by R. C. Ransdell, passed

assistant surgeon, United States Navy 284

Clinical notes:

Lateral sinus thrombosis, report of case, by G. F. Cottle, passed

assistant surgeon. United States Navy 287

Twenty-two cases of poisoning by the seeds of Jatropha curcai, by J. A.

Randall, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 290

Shellac bolus in the stomach in fatal case of poisoning by weed

alcohol, by H. F. Hull and O. J. Mink, passed assistant surgeons, United States

Navy 291

A case of pneumonia complicated by gangrenous endocarditis, by G. B. Crow,

passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 292

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. —On progressive paralysis in the imperial navy during

the years 1901-1911. By H. G. Beyer. An etiological study of Hodgkin's disease.

The etiology and vaccine treatment of Hodgkin's dis

ease. Coryncbacterium hodgkini in lymphatic leukemia and Hodgkin's disease.

Autointoxication and subinfection. Studies of syphilis. The treatment of the

pneumonias. Whooping cough: Etiolcgy, diagnosis, and vaccine treatment. A new

and logical treatment for alcoholism. Intraspinous injection of salvarsanized

serum in the treatment of syphilis of the nervous system, including tabes and

paresis. On the infective nature of certain cases of splenomegaly and Banti's

disease. The etiology and vaccine treatment of Hodgkin's disease. Cultural

results in Hodgkin's disease. By A. W. Dunbar and G. B. Crow 295

Surgery- Interesting cases of gunshot injury treated at Hankow during

the revolution of 1911 and 1912 in China. The fool's paradise stage in

appendicitis. By L. W. Johnson. The present status of bismuth paste treatment

of suppurative sinuses and empyema. The inguinal route operation for femoral

hernia; with supplementary note on Cooper's ligament. By R. Spear and R. A.

Warner 307

Hygiene and sanitation. — A contribution to the chemistry of

ventilation. The use of ozone in ventilation. By E. \V. Brown. Pulmonary

tuberculosis in the royal navy, with special reference to its detection and

prevention. An investigation into the keeping properties of condensed milks at

the temperature of tropical climates. By C. N. Fiske and R. C. Ransdell 313

Tropical medicine. —Seven days fever of the Indian ports. By L. W.

Johnson. Intestinal schistosomiasis in the Sudan. Disease carriers in our army

in India. Origin and present status of the emetin treatment of amebic

dysentery. The culture of leishmania from the finger blood of a case of Indian

kala-azar. By E. R. Stitt 315

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —The isolation of

typhoid bacilli from feces by means of brilliant green in fluid medium. By C.

N. Fiske. An efficient and convenient stain for use in the eeneral examination

of blood films. By 0. B. Crow. A contribution to the epidemiology of

poliomyelitis. A contribution to the pathology of epidemic poliomyelitis. A

note on the etiology of epidemic

oliomyelitis. Transmutations within the streptococcus-pneumococcus

group. The etiology of acute rheumatism, articular and muscular. By A. B.

Clifford and G. F. Clark 320

Chemistry and pharmacy.— Centrifugal method for estimating albumin in

urine. Detection of albumin in urine. New indican reaction A report on the

chemistry, technology, and pharmacology of and the legislation pertaining to

methyl alcohol. By E. W. Brown and O. O. Ruge. . 325

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —The use of local anesthesia in

exenteration of the orbit. Salvarsan in

ophthalmic practice. The effect of salvarsan on the eye. Total blindness

from the toxic action of wood alcohol, with recovery of vision under negative

galvanism. Furunculosis of the external auditory canal; the use of alcohol as a

valuable aid in treatment. Local treatment of Vincent's angina with salvarsan.

Perforated ear drum may be responsible for sudden death in water. The indications

for operating in acute mastoiditis. Turbinotomy. Why is nasal catarrh so

prevalent in the United States? By E. J. Grow and G. B. Trible 330

Miscellaneous. — The organization and work of the hospital ship Re d’

Italia. ByG. B. Trible 333

Reports and letters:

Correspondence concerning the article "Some aspects of the

prophylaxis of typhoid fever by injection of killed cultures," by Surg. C.

S. Butler, United States Navy, which appeared in the Bulletin, October, 1913

339

Malaria on the U. S. S. Tacoma from February, 1913, to February, 1914.

by I. S. K. Reeves, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 344

Extracts from annual sanitary reports for 1913 345

Number 3

Preface vii

Special articles:

Economy and waste in naval hospitals, by E. M. Shipp, surgeon, and P.

J. Waldner, chief pharmacist, United States Navy 357

The new method of physical training in the United States Navy, by J. A.

Murphy, surgeon, United States Navy 368

A study of the etiology of gangosa in Guam, by C. P. Kindleberger,

surgeon, United States Navy 381

Unreliability of Wassermann tests using unheated serum, by E. R. Stitt,

medical inspector, and G. F. Clark, passed assistant surgeon, United States

Navy 410

Laboratory note on antigens, by G. F. Clark, pasted assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 411

Prevention of mouth infection, by Joseph Head, M. D., D. D. S 411

The Medical Department at general quarters and preparations for battle,

by A. Farenholt, surgeon, United States Navy 421

A bacteriological index for dirt in milk, by J. J. Kinyoun, assistant

surgeon, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Navy 435

Brief description of proposed plan of a fleet hospital ship, based upon

the type auxiliary hull, by E. M. Blackwell, surgeon, United States Navy.. 442

The diagnostic value of the cutaneous tuberculin test in recruiting, by

E. M. Brown, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy, retired 448

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Additions to the pathological collection 453

Suggested devices:

A sanitary mess table for hospitals, by F. M. Bogan, surgeon, United

States Navy 455

A suggested improvement of the Navy scuttle butt, by E. M. Blackwell,

surgeon, United States Navy 455

Clinical notes:

Malaria cured by neosalvarsan, by F. M. Bogan, surgeon, United States

Navy 457

A case of rupture of the bladder with fracture of the pelvis, by H. F.

Strine, surgeon, and M. E. Higgins, passed assistant surgeon, United States

Navy. 458

Clinical observations on the use of succinimid of mercury, by T. W.

Reed, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 459

Points in the post-mortem ligation of the lingual artery, by O. J.

Mink, passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 462

Notes on the wounded at Vera Cruz, by H. F. Strine, surgeon, and M. E.

Higgins, passed assistant surgeon. United States Navy 464

Case reports from the Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., by F. M.

Bogan, surgeon, United States Navy 469

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. —The mouth in the etiology and symptomatology of

general systemic disturbances. Statistique m£dicale de la marine, 1909. By L.

W. Johnson. Antityphoid inoculation. Vaccines from the standpoint of the

physician. The treatment of sciatica. Chronic gastric ulcer and its relation to

gastric carcinoma. The nonprotein nitrogenous constituents of the blood in

chronic vascular nephritis

(arteriosclero-iis) as influenced by the level of protein metabolism.

The influence of diet on hepatic necrosis and toxicity of chloroform. The

rational treatment of tetanus. The comparative value of cardiac remedies. By A.

W. Dunbar and G. B. Crow

Psychiatry. —Abderhalden's method. Precis de psychiatric Constitutional

immorality. Nine years' experience with manic-depressive insanity. The pupil

and its reflexes in insanity. By R. F. Sheehan.

Surgery. —On the occurrence of traumatic dislocations (luxationen) in

the Imperial German Navy during the last 20 years. By H. G. Beyer. The wounding

effects of the Turkish sharp-pointed bullet. By T. W. Richards. Intestinal

obstruction: formation and absorption of toxin. By G. B. Crow

Hygiene and sanitation. —Relation of oysters to the transmission of

infectious diseases. The proper diet in the Tropics, with some pertinent remarks

on the use of alcohol. By E. W. Brown. Report of committee

upon period of isolation and exclusion from school in cases of

communicable disease. Resultats d'une enquete relative a la morbidity venerienne

dans la division navale d'Extreme-Orient et aux moyens susceptibles de la

restreindre. Ship's hygiene in the middle of the seventeenth century- Progress in

ship's hygiene during the nineteenth century. The origin of some of the

streptococci found in milk. On the further perfecting of mosquito spraying. By

C. N. Fiske and R. C. Ransdell

Tropical medicine. — Le transport, colloidal de medicaments dans le cholera.

By T. W. Richards. Cholera in the Turkish Army. A supposed case of yellow fever

in Jamaica. By L. W. Johnson. Note on a new geographic locality for balantidiosis.

Brief note on Toxoplasma pyroqenes. Note on certain protozoalike bodies in a

case of protracted fever with splenomegaly. The emetine and other treatment of

amebic dysentery and hepatitis, including liver abscess. A study of epidemic dysentery

in the Fiji Islands. By E. R. Stitt

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. — The best method of staining

Treponema pallidum. By C. N. Fiske. Bacteriological methods of meat analysis.

By R. C. Ransdell. Primary tissue lesions in the heart produced by Spirochete

pallida. Ten tests by which a physician may determine when p patient is cured

of gonorrhea. Diagnostic value of percutaneous tuberculin test (Moro). Some

causes of failure of vaccine therapy. A method of increasing the accuracy and

delicacy of the Wassermann reaction: By A. B. Clifford and G. F. Clark

Chemistry and pharmacy. —Quantitative test of pancreatic function. A comparison

of various preservatives of urine. A clinical method for the rapid estimation

of the quantity of dextrose in urine. By E. W. Brown and O. G. Ruge

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. —Intraocular pressure. Strauma as an

important factor in diseases of the eye. Carbonic cauterization "in the

treatment of granular ophthalmia. Ocular and other complications of syphilis treated

by salvarsan. Some notes on hay fever. A radiographic study of the mastoid. Ear

complications during typhoid fever. Su di un caso di piccola sanguisuga

cavallina nel bronco destro e su 7 casi di grosse sanguisughe cavalline in

laringe in trachea e rino-faringe. By E. J. Grow and G. B. Trible

Reports and letters:

American medico-psychological association, by R. F. Sheehan, passed assistant

surgeon, United States Navy 517

Report of 11 cases of asphyxiation from coal gas, by L. C. Whiteside,

passed assistant surgeon, United States Navy 522

Extracts from annual sanitary reports for 1913 — United States Naval

Academy, Annapolis, Md., by A. M. D. McCormick, medical director, United States

Navy 523

U. S. S. Arkansas, by W. B. Grove, surgeon, United States Navy 524

Marine barracks, Camp Elliott, Canal Zone, Panama, by B. H. Dorsey, passed

assistant surgeon, United States Navy 525

U. S. S. Cincinnati, by J. B. Mears, passed assistant surgeon. United States

Navy 526

U. S. S. Florida, by M. S. Elliott, surgeon, United States Navy 527

Naval training station, Great Lakes, Ill., by J. S. Taylor, surgeon, United

States Navy 527

Naval station, Guam, by C. P. Kindleberger, surgeon, United States Navy

528

Naval Hospital, Las Animas, Colo., by G. H. Barber, medical inspector, United

States Navy 532

U. S. S. Nebraska, by E. H. H. Old, passed assistant surgeon, United States

Navy 533

U. S. S. North Dakota, by J. C. Pryor, surgeon, United States Navy. .

534

Navy yard, Olongapo, P. L, by J. S. Woodward, passed assistant surgeon,

United States Navy 536

U. S. S. San Francisco, by T. W. Reed, passed assistant surgeon, United

States Navy 537

U. S. S. Saratoga, by H. R. Hermesch, assistant surgeon, United States Navy

538

U. S. S. Scorpion, by E. P. Huff, passed assistant surgeon, United States

Navy 538

U. S. S. West Virginia, by O. J. Mink, passed assistant surgeon, United

States Navy 539

Number 4

Preface V

Special articles:

Some prevailing ideas regarding the treatment of tuberculosis, by

Passed Asst. Surg. G. B. Crow 541

The Training School for the Hospital Corps of the Navy, by Surg. F. E. McCullough

and Passed Asst. Surg. J. B. Kaufman 555

Khaki dye for white uniforms, by Passed Asst. Surg. W. E. Eaton 561

Some facts and some fancies regarding the unity of yaws and syphilis,

by Surg. C. S. Butler 561

Quinine prophylaxis of malaria, by Passed Asst. Surg. L. W. McGuire 571

The nervous system and naval warfare, translated by Surg. T. W.

Richards. 576

Measles, by Surg. G. F. Freeman 586

Smallpox and vaccination, by Passed Asst. Surg. T. W. Raison 589

Rabies; methods of diagnosis and immunization, by Passed Asst. Surg. F.

X. Koltes 597

Syphilis aboard ship, by Passed Asst. Surg. G. F. Cottle 605

Systematic recording and treatment of syphilis, by Surg. A. M.

Fauntleroy and Passed Asst. Surg. E. H. H. Old 620

Organization and station bills of the U. S. naval hospital ship Solace,

by Surg. W. M. Garton 624

United States Naval Medical School laboratories:

Additions to the pathological collection 647

Additions to the helminthological collection 647

Clinical notes:

Succinimid of mercury in pyorrhea alveolaris, by Acting Asst. Dental Surg.

P. G. White 649

A case of pityriasis rosea, by Surg. R. E. Ledbetter 651

Emetin in the treatment of amebic abscess of the liver, by Surg. H. F. Strine

and Passed Asst. Surg. L. Sheldon, jr 653

Salvarsan in a case of amebic dysentery, by Passed Asst. Surg. O. J.

Mink. . 653

Laceration of the subclavian artery and complete severing of brachial plexus,

by Surg. H. C. Curl and Passed Asst. Surg. C. B. Camerer 654

Malarial infection complicating splenectomy, by Surg. H. F. Strine 655

A case of gastric hemorrhage; operative interference impossible, by

Passed Arst. Surg. G. E. Robertson 656

Operation for strangulated hernia, by Passed Asst. Surg. W. S. Pugh 657

A case of bronchiectasis with hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy,

by Passed Asst. Surg. L. C. Whiteside 658

Editorial comment:

Systematic recording and treatment of syphilis 665

Progress in medical sciences:

General medicine. —A note of three cases of enteric fever inoculated

during the incubation period. By T. W. Richards. The modern treatment of

chancroids. The treatment of burns. By W. E. Eaton. Experiments on the curative

value of the intraspinal administration of tetanus antitoxin. Hexamethylenamin.

Hexamethylenamin as an internal

antiseptic in other fluids of the body than urine. Lumbar puncture as a special

procedure for controlling headache in the course of infectious diseases.

Cardiospasm. Acromion auscultation; a new and delicate test in the early

diagnosis of incipient pulmonary tuberculosis.

Diabetes mellitus and its differentiation from alimentary glycosuria.

The complement fixation test in typhoid fever; its comparison with the

agglutination test and blood culture method. By C. B. Crow.. 671

Mental and nervous diseases. —A voice sign in chorea. By G. B. Crow.

Wassermann reaction and its application to neurology. Epilepsy: a theory of

causation founded upon the clinical manifestations and the therapeutic and

pathological data. Salvarsanized serum (Swift-Ellis treatment) in syphilitic diseases

of the central nervous system. Mental manifestations in tumors of the brain.

Some of the broader issues of the psycho-analytic n movement. Mental disease

and defect in United States troops. By R. Sheehan 6S1

Surgery. — Infiltration anesthesia. War surgery. Tenoplasty; tendon transplantation;

tendon substitution; neuroplasty. Carcinoma of the male breast. Visceral

pleureotomy for chronic empyema. By A. M. Fauntleroy and E. H. H. Old 6S8

Hygiene and sanitation. — Further experiences with the Berkefold filter

in the purifying of lead-contaminated water. By T. W. Richards. Experiments in

the destruction of fly larvae in horse manure. By A. B. Clifford. Investigation

relative to the life cycle, brooding, and tome practical moans of reducing the

multiplication of flies in camp. By W. E. Eaton, Humidity and heat stroke;

further observations on an analysis of

50 cases. By C. N. Fiske 693

Tropical medicine. — The treatment of aneylostoma anemia. Latent dysentery

or dysentery carriers. Naphthalone for the destruction of mosquitoes. Emetin in

amebic dysentery. By E. R. Stitt 704

Pathology, bacteriology, and animal parasitology. —Meningitis by

injection of pyogenic microbes in the peripheral nerves. The growth of pathogenic

intestinal bacteria in bread. Present status of the complement fixation test in

the diagnosis of gonorrheal infections. Practical application of the luetin

test. By A. B. Clifford and G. F. Clark 707

Eye, ear, nose, and throat. — Misting of eyeglasses. By E. L. Sleeth.

The treatment of ocular syphilis by salvarsan and neo salvarsan. The moving

picture and the eye. Treatment of various forms of ocular syphilis with

salvarsan. Rapid, painless, and bloodless method for removing the inferior

turbinate. Hemorrhage from the superior petrosal sinus. The frequency of

laryngeal tuberculosis in Massachusetts.

Intrinsic cancer of larynx. Treatment of hematoma of the auricle. By E.

J. Grow and G. B. Trible 709

Reports and letters:

Care of wounded at Mazatlan and at Villa Union, by Medical Inspector S.

G. Evans 713

Medico-military reports of the occupation of Vera Cruz 715

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Slowly But Surely Google is Taking Over my Computing Life by Thomas Hawk

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Years ago I used to only use Google to do internet searches. Slowly but surely though Google has been taking over more and more and more of my computing life. This is not a bad thing, this is a good thing. Google makes things that make my life easier and their corporate values are more in synch with my own than most publicly traded companies. I've especially noticed in the past six months that the trend of Google taking over my computing life has accelerated dramatically. This could have to do with the time I've been spending on Buzz, but some of the changes (like changing my internet browser) have involved big chunks of my computing experience.

Below is a loose chronology of the evolution of my experience with Google Products.

1. Search (can't remember exactly when, but years ago), got off Yahoo pretty early in the game and switched to Google. Google has the best search on the web today. I appreciate Google's more open nature than other search engines and their better track record when it comes to keeping the web uncensored.

2. ~~Blogger.~~ Used Blogger since 2003. Abandoned Blogger for WordPress last year, mostly due to Blogger's inability to deal effectively with comment spam.

3. Google Analytics. Still use this. It's free which is good. I've never really gotten what I want and need out of this product though. It's complicated to build things for me. The two most important things I want from a stats package are the number of page views and referring url information. My view I'm most interested in is the past 24 hours. Before Analytics I used Sitemeter. I liked Site Meter's analytics product much more, but you have to pay for that and Google Analytics is free.

I get the sense that Google Analytics is a bit like Photoshop for me. You can do anything and everything with it, but I'm still only using about 2% of its true potential.

4. Google Docs. I'm a lightweight user of word processing and spreadsheets, so this works just fine for me. Replaces the need to buy expensive software from Microsoft to do this sort of work for the casual user like me.

5. Google Maps. I used to use Mapquest and Yahoo Maps. Now I use Google Maps exclusively. It's the best mapping software on the web. I use it *very* heavily when traveling.

6. YouTube. Like everybody I'm on it. I rarely use it though. Occasionally I'll consume content on it. It takes so much time to watch YouTube videos though. It's probably the internet site that my kids use more than any other site on the internet though. My son Jackson has spent hours on there learning how to do Yo Yo tricks. ~~One of these days I'm going to have to get him a Google Yo Yo.~~ Actually I just ordered him a green one and a yellow one. He'll love them. :) I used Google Checkout to buy them from Google (not sure why the shipping charge is more than the yoyos though).

7. Google Earth. I don't use Google Earth a lot. I find it a bit unweildy actually. But I do use it to do the geotagging with Geotagger for my photos.

8. Gmail, part 1. Unfortunately I was late to the game with Gmail. So alas, I'm thomashawk22 instead of thomashawk. I got a gmail account and then never really used it. A few years back though I was getting so much spam email that I began filtering thomashawk.com email through gmail first to filter out all of the spam. That worked tremendously well. My spam pretty much went away entirely overnight. So I was using Google gmail as a passive filter for my Mac mail reader for about 2 years. Part 2, later.

In the past six months.

9. Google Buzz. Buzz has really become my primary social network. I still use a number of different social networks (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed), but Buzz now gets the bulk of my social networking time and attention. One of my favorite things about Buzz is that it shows photos *really* well. You can feed your Flickr feed into it and if people click on the thumbnails they blow up huge to get an easy big view. There's a link to Flickr included that I can cmd click to go fave the photo on Flickr too.

The majority of my faves that I'm faving on Flickr these days are coming from Google Buzz. If you haven't hooked your Flickrstream up to a Buzz account yet you are missing out. :) Even if you aren't going to use Buzz, don't have time for another social network, etc. You should still at least hook up your Flickrstream to it so that people can see your Flickr photos there and get back to your stream via Buzz.

10. PicasaWeb. I've had an account on Picasa for years, but just never really used it. I've started using it much more though. Presently I'm maxed out my free storage there so I'm just using it to host small sized screenshot files and deleting my larger high res photos as I need space. I've thought about paying the $5 to buy more ($5 is really totally insignificant for me to pay) but I need Picasa to convince me as a product first why I should do that.

If Picasa had photostreams and SmartSet technology I'd totally pay. But as it stands today, it's too much work organizing my photos there manually without SmartSets and it feels to me like the photosharing community is still very much at Flickr. I do use the service though almost daily to host my screenshots.

11. Google Profiles. I like having a profile page on Google and look forward to seeing them continue expanding this product. You can find my Google Profile here.

12. Google Chrome. After a rocky marriage with Firefox for many years we finally split up a few months ago. Google Chrome is just a far better, faster, more stable web browser.

13. GMail, part 2. I haven't opened my Mac Mail application for about a month now. I've been consuming all of my email directly from gmail on the web. Mostly it's just faster to do email this way. So now it is not only my passive spam filter, it's my main mail application that I use to consume all of my email.

14. Picnik. Probably technically not a Google Product yet, but acquired by Google recently so I'm including it. I just bought a Pro account there for $24.95 for a year. I did it just because I was curious about what you could do there more than anything. I don't think I'll renew it after my year is up based on what I saw. I didn't really see anything there that I can't already do in Lightroom or Photoshop. But for someone who doesn't want to spend the money for Lightroom/Photoshop, this seems like an excellent way to go. You really can do quite a bit for $25 a year.

I need to play around with Picnik a bit more though. Maybe it will grow on me. Google should consider giving away the Pro version in Picasa to get more people on there.

15. Google Calendar. After using 30 Boxes for many years I switched to Google Calendar. Not sure why really. 30 Boxes was working just fine. I think I like Google Calendar better. I like how now that I've synched it up with my iPhone that I get a little notification from my iPhone calendar 10 minutes before I've got an appointment.

16. Google Chrome URL shortener. this is kind of a minor little tool. Not a product really. But I love it so much that I wanted to include it. You just click on a little icon in Chrome and it automatically copies a shorter url to your clipboard. :)

The future.

So what's next for me in terms of adopting Google products. I'm not sure exactly but here are a few ideas.

Android. I suspect that when my contract with AT&T ends in July that I'll likely switch to a Google phone of some sort. They seem to be ahead of Apple right now, are a more open company. And I can't stand how poor AT&T's 3G network is in San Francisco.

Chrome OS. This will be an interesting one. Switching your OS is huge. It took me years to get off Windows and on to my Mac about 5 years ago. Overall I'm pretty happy with my Mac. Still I paid over $3,000 for my last MacBook Pro. Chrome would seem to make computing cheaper. I don't know enough about Chrome to really blog about it, but if I can install it on my MacBook Pro when it comes out (later this year?) to check it out I definitely will. Apple's OS is pretty damn solid though, so I think this switch for me will be a harder one.

Internet Cafe by Jens-Olaf Walter

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Student Internet Cafe by OER Africa

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Internet_argument by rhys_kiwi

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Internet Machine by Timo Arnall

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A multi-screen film about the invisible infrastructures of the internet. More here: www.elasticspace.com/2014/05/internet-machine

Internet finds by shox turbo92

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Entreprise 2.0 by Jean-Bastien Prévots

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Entreprise 2.0 : entreprise qui utilise Internet et tout particulièrement le Web 2.0, que ce soit dans sa communication interne ou dans sa communication externe.

Internet Troll by Brad Gosse

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Comic image depicting an internet troll leaving anonymous comments online.

Internet love. by Janice Ng

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We'll pour our hearts out on the screen

One line at a time

And I'll try to figure how to

Make you mine

-Internet Love Song by Tom Milsom

I called this Internet Love because only love on the internet is visible. That explains the heart. Does that make sense? Er.

I did this after waking up from a nap and felt like smiling with this cut-out heart I did a few days back. I was all sleepy and blur when I took this.

I feel kinda dumb cutting out a hear and colouring it red, why didn't I use construction paper?

I'm running out of ideas these days or I have ideas in my head but I fail to come up with the picture. It's frustrating!

I received my subject combination results for next year already and yay, I got into the first class. That means I'll have to do 9 subjects. I hope I don't die.

That means I'll have lesser time to have pictures taken and uploaded next year):

The Internet Switch by Trammell Hudson

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The Internet switch exists and it must be on at all times.

(A MD88 flight from MSY to ATL)

sluto by obstacle language

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internet by daranders

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Internet by princesse101-

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Home Internet Problem by aka Gerald

Apologies! Ever since a severe storm hit Sydney on Friday, 29 January, we have lost our home cable Internet connection. After 2+ weeks, Telstra/BigPond still hasn't a clue when the problem will be fixed. In the interim, we are using a dongo device (a 4GX wireless WI-FI gadget) to connect to the Internet. I also have to revert to using a laptop instead of a desktop.....

Apologies again for not following your photostreams and commenting for the last 17 days. It is now Sunday, 14 Feb. I'll try to catch up as much as I can.

Internet-20150411-_DSC7227 by Jhonny Neutron

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Internet Garten by claudiaweidtgoldmann

biafra by obstacle language

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All Saints, Gazeley, Suffolk by Jelltex

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All Saints, Gazeley, Suffolk.

There was never any doubt I would go to Rob's funeral. Rob was born just two weeks before me, and in our many meetings, we found we had so much in common.

A drive to Ipswich should be something like only two and a half hours, but with the Dartford Crossing that could balloon to four or more.

My choice was to leave early, soon after Jools left for work, or wait to near nine once rush hour was over. If I was up early, I'd leave early, I said.

Which is what happened.

So, after coffee and Jools leaving, I loaded my camera stuff in the car, not bothering to program in a destination, as I knew the route to Suffolk so well.

Checking the internet I found the M2 was closed, so that meant taking the M20, which I like as it runs beside HS2, although over the years, vegetation growth now hides most of it, and with Eurostar cutting services due to Brexit, you're lucky to see a train on the line now.

I had a phone loaded with podcasts, so time flew by, even if travelling through the endless roadworks at 50mph seemed to take forever.

Dartford was jammed. But we inched forward, until as the bridge came in sight, traffic moved smoothly, and I followed the traffic down into the east bore of the tunnel.

Another glorious morning for travel, the sun shone from a clear blue sky, even if traffic was heavy, but I had time, so not pressing on like I usually do, making the drive a pleasant one.

Up through Essex, where most other traffic turned off at Stanstead, then up to the A11 junction, with it being not yet nine, I had several hours to fill before the ceremony.

I stopped at Cambridge services for breakfast, then programmed the first church in: Gazeley, which is just in Suffolk on the border with Cambridgeshire.

I took the next junction off, took two further turnings brought be to the village, which is divided by one of the widest village streets I have ever seen.

It was five past nine: would the church be open?

I parked on the opposite side of the road, grabbed my bag and camera, limped over, passing a warden putting new notices in the parish notice board. We exchange good mornings, and I walk to the porch.

The inner door was unlocked, and the heavy door swung after turning the metal ring handle.

I had made a list of four churches from Simon's list of the top 60 Suffolk churches, picking those on or near my route to Ipswich and which piqued my interest.

Here, it was the reset mediaeval glass.

Needless to say, I had the church to myself, the centuries hanging heavy inside as sunlight flooded in filling the Chancel with warm golden light.

Windows had several devotional dials carved in the surrounding stone, and a huge and "stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast" which caught my eye.

A display in the Chancel was of the decoration of the wooden roof above where panels contained carved beasts, some actual and some mythical.

I photographed them all.

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All Saints is a large, remarkably good church in one of the sleepy, fat villages along the Cambridgeshire border, the sort of place you cycle through and imagine wistfully that you've won the lottery and could move there. The wide churchyard on both sides is a perfect setting for the church, which rises to heaven out of a perpendicular splendour of aisles, clerestories and battlements. The tower was complete by the 1470s when money was being left for a bell. The earlier chancel steadies the ship, anchoring it to earth quietly, although the tall east window has its spectacular moment too. And you step into a deliciously well-kept interior, full of interest.

One of the most significant medieval survivals here is not easily noticed. This is the range of 15th Century glass, which was reset by the Victorians high in the clerestory. This seems a curious thing to have done, since it defeats the purpose of a clerestory, but if they had not done so then we might have lost it. The glass matches the tracery in the north aisle windows, so that is probably where they came from. There are angels, three Saints and some shields, most of which are heraldic but two show the instruments of the passion and the Holy Trinity. I would not be surprised to learn that some of the shields are 19th century, but the figures are all original late 15th or early 16th century. The Saints are an unidentified Bishop, the hacksaw-wielding St Faith and one of my favourites, St Apollonia. She it was who was invoked by medieval people against toothache.

Waling from the nave up into the chancel, the space created by the clearing of clutter makes it at once mysterious and beautiful. Above, the early 16th century waggon roof is Suffolk's best of its kind. Mortlock points out the little angels bearing scrolls, the wheat ears and the vine sprays, and the surviving traces of colour. The low side window on the south side still has its hinges, for here it was that updraught to the rood would have sent the candles flickering in the mystical church of the 14th century. On the south side of the sanctuary is an exquisitely carved arched recess, that doesn't appear to have ever had a door, and may have been a very rare purpose-built Easter sepulchre at the time of the 1330s rebuilding. Opposite is a huge and stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast. It is one of the most significant Decorated moments in Suffolk.

On the floor of the chancel there is a tiny, perfect chalice brass, one of only two surviving in Suffolk. The other is at Rendham. Not far away is the indent of another chalice brass - or perhaps it was for the same one, and the brass has been moved for some reason. There are two chalice indents at Westhall, but nowhere else in Suffolk. Chalice brasses were popular memorials for Priests in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and thus were fair game for reformers. Heigham memorials of the late 16th century are on the walls. Back in the south aisle there is a splendid tombchest in Purbeck marble. It has lost its brasses, but the indents show us where they were, as do other indents in the aisle floors. Some heraldic brass shields survive, and show that Heighams were buried here. Brass inscriptions survive in the nave and the chancel, dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

The 14th century font is a good example of the tracery pattern series that appeared in the decades before the Black Death. They may have been intended to spread ideas at that time of great artistic and intellectual flowering before it was so cruelly snatched away. The cover is 17th Century. At this end of the nave are two good ranges of medieval benches, one, rare in East Anglia, is a group of 14th Century benches with pierced tracery backs. Some of them appear to spell out words, and Mortlock thought one might say Salaman Sayet. The block of benches to the north appears to be 15th Century or possibly early 16th Century. Further north, the early 17th Century benches are simpler, even cruder, and were likely the work of the village carpenter.

All rather lovely then. And yet, it hasn't always been that way. All Saints at Gazeley, near Newmarket, was the first church that I visited after an international team of scientists conclusively proved that God did not exist began the first page for this church that I wrote in 2003, in a satirical mood after finding the church locked and at a very low ebb. At a time when congregations were generally falling, I'd been thinking about the future of medieval churches beyond a time when they would have people to use them in the traditional way. I wondered if the buildings might find new uses, or could adapt themselves to changing patterns and emphases in Christianity, or even changing spiritual needs of their parishes. Even if science could somehow prove that God did not exist, I suggested, there were parishes which would rise to the challenge and reinvent themselves, as churches have always done over the two millennia of Christianity. Coming to Gazeley I felt that here was a church which felt as if it had been abandoned. And yet, it seemed to me a church of such significance, such historical and spiritual importance, that its loss would be a disaster. If it had been clean, tidy and open at the time he was visiting, Simon Jenkins England's Thousand Best Churches would not have been able to resist it. Should the survival of such a treasure store depend upon the existence of God or the continued practice of the Christian faith? Or might there be other reasons to keep this extraordinary building in something like its present integrity?

In the first decade of the 21st Century, Gazeley church went on a tremendous journey, from being moribund to being the wonderful church you can visit today. If you want to read the slightly adapted 2006 entry for Gazeley, recounting this journey, you can do so here. Coming back here today always fills me with optimism for what can be achieved. On one occasion I mentioned my experiences of Gazeley church to a Catholic Priest friend of mine, and he said he hoped I knew I'd seen the power of the Holy Spirit at work. And perhaps that is so. Certainly, the energy and imagination of the people here have been fired by something. On that occasion I had wanted to find someone to ask about it, to find out how things stood now. But there was no one, and so the building spoke for them.

Back outside in the graveyard, the dog daisies clustered and waved their sun-kissed faces in the light breeze. The ancient building must have known many late-May days like this over the centuries, but think of all the changes that it has known inside! The general buffeting of the winds of history still leaves room for local squalls and lightning strikes. All Saints has known these, but for now a blessed calm reigns here. Long may it remain so.

Simon Knott, June 2019

www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gazeley.htm

Internet Girls by Agustin Diaz

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Después de las "2 point 0 girls", ahora vienen las Internet Girls, me he quedado con las 3 principales, Firefox, Internet Explorer y Opera, estuve apunto de meter el Safari y el Konkeror, solo que al final no me gustaron.

You are on the internet now by Jens Best

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Alles wird gut.

«Mobileman» (Mobile Internet) by Non Null

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Variations on a theme «...with a film across Moscow»

Photo taken: March 29, 2018

Camera: Fed Micron (№8110014)

Film: Lucky SHD 100 New Black & White 35mm film, dev. xtol

Scanner: Noritsu LS-1100

The symbol of the mobile Internet is a bright and slightly provocative art object established by the telecommunications company MTS on Petrovsky Boulevard near Trubnaya Square in the center of Moscow.

The ironic sculpture depicts a man who pulls into the smartphone: he bows into the device, he does not look, but confidently goes forward, like one of many passers-by in a crowd in a crowded street. The figure is made in firm red color.

The author of the monument is Yegor Shabanov. His project was recognized as the best in the contest, which was launched on September 30, 2017, on Mobile Internet Day.

«On the one hand, my hero is a mobile and free person who can go where he wants and stay in touch. On the other - it depends entirely on its gadget», - explained the author of the monument to his idea.

Internet en Cuba 2 by roberto suarez

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Internet string by Anna

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Internet by The-Samizdat

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China - Internet Cafe (网吧) by Tom Thai

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Internet Café in Turpan at around 8:30am. When I walked in, there were 5 customers, 2 of whom were completely passed out at their keyboards. / 吐鲁番网吧。早晨的顾客不多。

Internet Marketing by Nesk WebArt

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Internet Marketing

[Infografía] Historia de Internet by David Álvarez

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Infografía realizada por Martín Arias para el medio peru21.pe, visto en www.clasesdeperiodismo.com/2010/05/17/infografia-por-el-d...

[Se entienden que los derechos son del autor o del medio]

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a sunken ferry at the side of the transporter bridge middlesbrough by sean gibson

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I found this on the internet about this photo so i have copied it and pasted it here it was in the guardian newspaper

There's a ship in Middlesbrough dock that's been listing like the Costa Concordia. She looks like she might vanish completely into the River Tees. As I peer at her from across the expanse of flattened industrial land that separates her from the road, I can just about make out the name she once had, in sprightly red above the decaying mess of the bow: the Tuxedo Royale.

I'm here because Middlesbrough has been at or near the top of a lot of lists these past months. There's house prices. In England and Wales they fell by an average of 1.3% in 2011. But in Middlesbrough they plummeted by 9.9%. A few miles up the road in Hartlepool they took a 17.5% tumble. There were no worse declines anywhere in Britain. And then there are even bleaker lists. A Middlesbrough family is more at risk of falling into poverty than any other family in England. This is according to the credit reference agency, Experian. When the public sector cuts kick in properly, the people of Middlesbrough will find themselves the least able to withstand them. (Most resilient, by the way, will be a town called Elmbridge in Surrey, Experian has somehow calculated).

This is because when the shipbuilding and steel and chemical industries collapsed, the opportunities here were in the public sector – in education, the NHS and so on. Middlesbrough shipbuilders retrained to become – as the phase went at the time – "keyboard warriors". [See footnote]

Now there are To Let signs everywhere. This is a town where lots of window frames have no windows and lots of doorways have no doors. Amid all this the Tuxedo Royale seems especially sad and mysterious. Where did she come from? How did she end up like this?

I make some calls, and get talking with two men called Richard Moffatt and John Coates. "Have you got shoes with good grip?" says John. "If you don't mind signing something to absolve the dock owners of any responsibility if you fall overboard, I'll take you on board."

I ask who owns Tuxedo Royale. "Nobody," says Richard. "She's ownerless. If she had an owner someone would have to be responsible for her."

John Coates sits in a nearby cafe. Truckers stand in the toilets in their underpants, washing at the sinks. John isn't a trucker. He's unemployed.

"I just plod about from day to day," he says. "A lot of people cabbage but I try and keep busy. I go round to friends' houses. I'm trying to get this Tuxedo Royale project going."

John is 47 and looks younger, I think because there's a restless energy to him. He's propelled onwards by a vision. He used to work on the Tuxedo Royale now he wants to save her. He says he'll explain how when we're on board.

We drive through Middlehaven dock – an expanse of flattened nothingness that once, John says, "had a close-knit community living here. But very violent. Very dangerous. Lots of drugs. So they levelled the place. They had to, really."

We park outside the Tuxedo Royale. Close up, I can see what a mess she's in. The decks glisten with shattered glass. Electrical wires hang down from the ceilings like spaghetti. John tells me about her past. It turns out she's had quite the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang life.

She was built in 1965, on Tyneside, by British Railways. At first she was the TSS Dover, a steam-powered car ferry, but she was soon transformed into a Mediterranean passenger ship called the Sol Express. She saw many things back then, John says, from incredible parties to terrifying militia warfare. One day in September 1983 she was sailing from Larnaca, Cyprus, when she received an emergency call. Lebanese Christian soldiers and Muslim militia were shooting at each other in nearby Beirut. The fighting was so intense the port had been forced to close, but a group of American embassy staff needed rescuing. And so the Sol Express, "in a sign of confidence in the government", according to a New York Times article at the time, changed destination. She sailed into Beirut and saved the Americans.

Five years later, in 1988, an Irish shoe leather millionaire pumped a fortune into her and the Sol Express became the lavish floating nightclub, the Tuxedo Royale. For more than a decade she settled, wildly successfully, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Some of the TV series Our Friends in the North was filmed on board, and Daniel Craig went partying on the ship to get into character.

Later I manage to find a promotional video. The camera sweeps through bars bathed in blue light, past mirrored pillars that pulsate in pink neon. There's a revolving dancefloor, an ancient Rome-themed disco room and a psychedelic room. "Here's Trader Jack's disco bar," says the voiceover. "With its sleek clean lines and glossy wood floors it looks every inch the ship's disco. Here's the 70s theme club, Stowaways. The funky decor and colour scheme reflect the decor of that era. The concept of a floating entertainment complex is definitely of the moment."

John finds some strips of rusting metal for us to use as a makeshift gangplank. Last week thieves stole the actual gangplank, he says. We teeter precariously over it and on to the ship and I get a very different kind of tour.

There are ripped-out doors and shattered glass everywhere. John says the ship is being stripped for scrap: "They're smashing the portholes just to get the little brass knobs off. They've stolen miles of cables. They're spending whole weekends on board. We've found sleeping bags. A few months ago you could have started the generators, stocked the bars and run it as a club. She would have been up and running. Now look …"

It really is a shambles. The decks are strewn with debris. Mangled cables cascade down from the smashed ceiling tiles. The mirror balls are missing their mirrors. The thieves have stolen so much they've gone right through to the water. She would have sunk by now if she hadn't already hit the bottom of the river.

"All this …" John waves his hands across the devastation, "has happened in the last fortnight."

We continue our tour. "This was our Sunset Bar," says John. "They used to have a saxophone player over there." He points to a mound of mangled chairs. "It was a chillout bar. The floors were polished. She was really outstanding. Down there was Trader Jack's. You'd meet friends in the Sunset and go in there. They'd play Michael Jackson, Donna Summer. You never wanted to sit down."

John pauses. He looks around. "It's heartbreaking for me, this. I helped put in a lot of the lighting and electrical work. It's a bit devastating, actually."

"Can't the police do anything?" I ask.

"They don't want to know," John says. "They're '0800 go away we're not interested'. They haven't got the funds to do anything about it."

John falls silent for a moment. Then he says, "She's a victim of changing times, I suppose."

So what happened? I think a clue can be found in an Observer article from May 1999. The food critic Jay Rayner visited Newcastle that month. He walked past the Tuxedo Royale and wrote that she "looks, to the untutored eye, like nothing less than Dante's seven circles of hell made seaworthy". Then he walked on to his destination – a new Michelin starred restaurant where he chose "a warm salad of salt pork, griddled foie gras and puy lentils".

Newcastle was changing. The Tuxedo Royale was anachronistically ungentrified. She had to move to somewhere more culturally fitting. And so it was, in May 2000, she moored to great fanfare 50 miles south, here in Middlehaven, right in front of Middlesbrough FC stadium. Which is where she became a floating strip club for the home fans.

"They used to put strippers on in the Bonzai bar," says John. "Pre-match. The music would come on and the girls would jump out from behind the bar and dance certain dances. I remember one time we had 1,200 guys on board all waiting for the strippers but the agency was unreliable and the girls hadn't turned up. In the end we persuaded one of the female bar staff to get up and do a bit."

"She must have loved you," I say.

"Yeah, well," says John, "there were 1,200 drunken men on board, all chanting, and no strippers. So she got up and did a little bit, God bless her. We got away with it."

And then times changed again. In September 2004, plans were announced to transform the flattened wasteland of Middlehaven. Dubai's economic development minister, his excellency Mohamed Ali Alabbar, was interested.

"They had this vision," John says. "This place would be second only to Dubai. All these multibillion-pound futuristic buildings." The plans were incredibly elaborate. There would be a primary school in the shape of a spelling block, a cinema designed to resemble a Rubik's cube, apartment blocks inspired by Prada skirts, a hotel in the shape of the game KerPlunk, a brand new college and an Anish Kapoor sculpture.

The scheme was launched at the Venice Biennale. The Middlesbrough mayor, Ray Mallon, ceremonially handed his excellency a Middlesbrough football shirt. Part of the deal was that the Tuxedo Royale had to go.

"Our plans are ambitious and hugely significant and proceeding at a spectacular pace," the developers announced in 2005. "It is timely that this vessel should now move on."

The ship's owner, Michael Quadrini, said magnanimously that he didn't want to stand in the way of progress during these boom times. Anyway, he added, it was fine because the company had "been offered other sites both in the UK and abroad and are currently looking into which will be the best one".

But nothing materialised. Instead the Tuxedo Royale shut forever and sailed a few miles up river to a truly horrendous place – the "ghost ships" graveyard in Hartlepool.

The ghost ships were vast, hulking, decommissioned US and French military vessels that were supposed to have been dismantled in Turkey.

"But the Turks didn't want them," says John's friend Nathan, who has joined us on board. "They were too dangerous. Too filled with asbestos. So they forced them on to us instead." It makes you gasp to see photographs of the Tuxedo Royale in the shadow of the ghost ships. She looks like a minnow about to be devoured by sharks.

Now she's back in Able dock, right next to Middlehaven. The Dubai dream died. The financial markets collapsed and the coalition government announced its cuts. John, Nathan and I stand on deck and gaze out, across the expanse of nothingness, at the unrealised vision.

Actually, two lovely things got built before it all collapsed – the beautiful Kapoor sculpture and a gleaming steel Middlesbrough college building designed to resemble a ship's hull. But they stand alone and incongruous. In the midst of the economic devastation, saving the Tuxedo Royale is low on everyone's priorities.

There are only two men holding out hope: John and his friend Richard, a railway preservation enthusiast who lives in Dover. I telephone him. He says it'll cost £200,000 to move the ship into dry dock across the water, safe from the vandals and thieves.

"I said to my contact in Middlesbrough council: 'You must have people who can raise that kind of money,'" Richard tells me. "He replied, 'Well we did, but we've just made them all redundant.'"

"You're exactly what David Cameron hopes will happen," I say. "An entrepreneur entering a savagely cut community to try and make everything OK with a private initiative."

"Yes, he has a name for it, doesn't he?" says Richard. "'Localised something … or … um …"

"It's on the tip of my tongue too," I say.

"It's … um …" says Richard.

The next day Richard emails me: "I've remembered the name! Big society!"

"Big society!" I email back. "That's it!"

Now, John and I climb down the makeshift gangplank and back on to land. John points to the spot where the thieves jump across the water to steal the brass knobs and cables. It's a giant and perilous leap.

"They could break their necks," I say. John nods. "You've got to give them marks for bravery," I say.

We survey what's left of the ship. "Sooner or later those lifeboats are going to start falling off," John says. "If we don't catch it now, it's gone."

By 'it' he means not just the ship, but shipbuilding here in the north-east. "There are so many lads like us just dying for something to do," he says. "You get worn down. Your feeling of worth goes. But if we can raise the £200,000 to get her into dry dock we can get a thriving little community going. Bring the old shipbuilders down for a cup of tea.

"I know one old guy, a master shipbuilder, 67 years old. He's stacking shelves at Tesco. They don't have to do anything strenuous – just tell their stories. It'll be like going down to the allotments for them. And they can pass the knowledge on to the youngsters who'll be fixing the ship up. And in years to come they can say: 'I built that ship.' Or their kids can say: 'My dad built that ship.'" John pauses. "We have to go back from being keyboard warriors to actually making something."

"Have you got local support?" I ask.

"Yes," he says. "Although a man from Middlehaven said to me the other day: 'The ship's got more chance of getting out from the bottom than you boys have.'"

As John remembers this insult he suddenly looks incredibly upset. But then a different look crosses his face, a look of absolute resolve, and I honestly think he's going to make it happen.

• This footnote was added on 8 March 2012. A version of the following correction was scheduled to appear in the Guardian: A feature about Middlesbrough referred to the collapse of Teesside's shipbuilding, steel and chemical industries. While this may well describe the dramatic declines in these sectors in the latter part of the 19th century, a reader rightly points out that: "The chemical industry on Teesside hasn't collapsed. The process sector is actually growing . . . The steel works are at Redcar and have of course reopened creating 1,500 or so jobs under SSI."