Ogden 8 AUGUST 219 DAYS PAST Friday 146 DAYS TO COME A deluge of a rain sets top mark in storm in Ogden more than an inch & 12 of rain falls in less than one hr. Streets are flooded. Shoppers doff shoes and sox to brave flooded Bulevardes. Tarrents of water came down and lightening plentiful. I was a little worried when my electric stove began spitting etc. The most severe rain storm here in years, Nazis and deliver new blows at Soviet Bloody mass slaughter on both sides Mary Auto accidents in Utah & Idaho. Ralph, Maren, Ted & Janath went for a trip up to Holliday in the Uintahs DIGITALIS- THE ANCIENT FOXGLOVE The Latin term digitalis, coined by Fuchs of Tubingen about 1550, was intended to be the equivalent of the German finger-hut. Old herbalists used the plant as an ingredient in their external applications for scrofulous complaints. But foxglove first assumed a professional reputation in medicine with the publication of William Witherings Account of the Foxglvoe and Some Of Its Medical Uses (1785), in which he placed digitalis on a scientific basis. WILLIAM WITHERING (1741-1799) Saturday 220 DAYS PAST AUGUST 9 145 DAYS TO COME Have done some laundry of underware etc Dr has been busy at the office. This evening we arrived at our Trailer on Bear Lake Fish Haven at 8 P.M. left Ogden about 4 P.M. a delightful ride thro Logan canyon. It had rained here some but found the Trailer all in tact and will enjoy a few days more here. Solid comfort. We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cockcrowing and the morning star- EMERSON WARNERS CALENDAR OF MEDICAL HISTORY