@article{ref1,
title="On the automobile [editorial] [1904]",
journal="Buffalo medical journal",
year="1904",
author="Ford, Simeon",
volume="43",
number="11",
pages="743-746",
abstract="Our streets have always been hard enough to navigate, heaven knows, but nowadays, with the electric trolleys and the automobiles added, pedestrianism has degenerated into a mere succession of frenzied leaps and convulsive stops, and our prog- ress to and fro is like that of the startled fawn.   This eternal horn-blowing is a nuisance and a nerve-destroving crime, and is unnecessary and silly. I have noticed that the smaller the auto the bigger the horn. To hear one of these little tin washboilers, with a one-horse-power engine and a twelve- horse-power horn and a twenty-mule-power driver, coming down the avenue, you'd suppose Gabriel with his trump had broken loose at last, and when you look up, expecting to see a trump, you see nothing but a two-spot.   I don't claim that every man who runs an auto is a jackass, but I do claim that every jackass runs an auto. I run one myself.   But when I run over a pedestrian, I just mow him down in a quiet, dignified and refined manner, and don't add insult to injury by frightening him to death before I kill him.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-3817",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}