The Brain And Its Bony Citadel.- the arches, with true anatomical instinct in a rare technical ability in regard to accuracy in minute detail, has performed as part of the work in this illustration with such faithful fidelity to nature that one cannot withhold a word of praise at the grand style and elaborate manner of its execution. This elegant and artistic anatomical plate represents the brain held firmly in position within its strong bony citadel, but collect and 20 from above downward, thus showing its internal mechanism and construction; besides which it gives the internal arrangements of the nose, tongue, throat and neck.This initial section, or rather the first paragraph of the of this section provides more praise to the artist and description of the actual topic, which in case you missed it is a picture showing a cross-section of the human head and neck to include the spinal column. The image is labeled correctly and is in color.the same picture could've been provided in a textbook as late as 20 or 30 years ago at a grade school or high school level. The diagram is accurate as far as labels and body parts are concerned, however they're drawing and rendering are somewhat untrue to form and don't exactly provide the insights into the function of the movable parts quite like we may see a representation today. The diagram for the tongue in particular is somewhat peculiar looking and seems to show an example of the tongue lopped off or half swallowed. This aspect of the drying is a little odd, and I suspect the artist may have taken some liberties in their drawing to expedite the process and that all the pieces in their approximate space.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Saline Impurity
Saline Impurity. — But any quantity of saline impurity exceeding thirty-five grains to the gallon renders a water unfit for the freest domestic use. Such water would be popularly designated as a very “hard” water, but a good deal of in difference is caused by the nature of the hardness, that due to sulfate of lime, and called the permanent hardness because it is not removable by boiling, being decidedly most prejudicial to health.
Okay so I’m going to admit freely that have no idea what this last paragraph was about. I understand what saline solution is, and I understand what hard water is. But I do not understand how the two come together in this particular paragraph and what it might mean even in the context of the previous paragraph in section. I think progress like this that I wish I had found a 100-year-old golf digest talking about golf bags and techniques as opposed to a medical journal.
- Work of the Heart
Work of the Heart. –no slave ever performed his work more patiently than the heart. It’s quivering task is essential to life and health. It is the fountain from whence the spirit flows, and on the faithful performance of its functions every part of the body depends for the warm stream of life, motion and vigor which it unstintingly furnishes. The ancients believed the heart to be the seat of love. Within its walls were located all that was pure, true, good and noble, as well as the evil passions of the soul. And although modern scientist on the seat of mind, reason, consciousness and the mental powers be located in the brain, and does rob the heart of its romance, yet it has revealed wonder is connected with the small organ, that certainly it clips the mysteries associated with it in the past. Pit-a-Pat! pit-a-pat! drops this marvelous engine, and in response to its constant dropping the blood bounce along the myriad of tubes, conveying messages of life and health.
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There’s a little bit of irony in this particular section. The author is reviewing the ancients perception of what the heart did, and I’m reviewing what the authors.the heart did a hundred years ago. The irony is probably compounded by the fact that I’m a layman and know very little about medicine in the authors were probably fairly informed about medicine in their day, however many of the things that they describe seem ludicrous to me just like some of the things they thought the ancients describe probably seem ludicrous to them. I can’t wait for generations in the future to come along and find the ludicrous things that I’ve created!
- Quantity of Water Needed
Quantity of Water Needed.-the quantity of water needed by man and animals must therefore be very carefully calculated. Repeated experiments upon a very extended scale in England have shown that a healthy man requires daily as drink from 2 to 4 pints of water, this amount being in addition to that which is swallowed as moisture and food. The amount required for cooking is estimated at from having gallantly gallon or more. To this quantity, Dr. Parkes considers should be added for daily ablution, including a sponge bath, 5 gallons; daily share of kitchen and other utensils, and house washing, 3 gallons; and share of clothes washing, another 3 gallons; making up a total of a little over 12 gallons for each individual daily. In the poorer districts of the city of London, the amount used is stated to be only about 5 gallons daily. A shower-bath will require about 4 gallons extra, and a plunge-bath from 40 to 60 gallons. Where water-closets are used in additional quantity of from 4 to 6 gallons daily for each person must be provided.
In general this is actually one of the more interesting paragraphs that I found in this book. It describes several things that I believe could be rather unique. First it discusses the quantity of water needed for human consumption. It describes experiments done in England and considering that this book was published sometime around the turn-of-the-century around 1916 by my estimates, this would seem to indicate a human water consumption estimates of 2 to 4 pints presented 20 years before the FDA guidelines written by a bureaucrat that suggested that people should drink 8 cups of water a day.
Furthermore I find this one interesting from the perspective that it discusses how much water people may have used around the turn-of-the-century. I live in the Southeast of the United States and today we are in a drought.. Water consumption is definitely an important issue for the Southeast United States and many other areas of the world. And therefore when I listen to and read some of the items here that describe how much water should be used or could be used, it seems strikingly different than what we might use today, especially as we have many more appliances that use water, and many newer appliances that are designed to be energy-efficient. Very very interesting section, some of those water estimates seemed very high by todays standards and some seemed relatively low, at dollhouses levels.