Cerebrum and Cerebellum - We observed that the cerebrum, the seat of mind and volition, is much larger than the cerebellum or little brain; a biz though that was not enough area for the evolution of the mind, we see this part of the brain most curiously wrinkled and folded into various sized convolutions, thus increasing the mental service. The more numerous these convolutions are, the higher and more noble and mental faculties and intellectual powers become. The hemisphere of the brain, here shown, is seen to be divided into three lobes, the frontal, middle and posterior. The Corpus Callosum, or the great commissioner of the brain, is most faithfully represented, and immediately below is seen the Fornix. The peculiar appearance of the cerebellum or little brain presents a tree-like resemblance, once it is called arbor vitae, or the tree of life.This section has several interesting segment Senate that stood out to me as I read them. Plus it had a third that stood out to my wife. My wife wondered if the word convolutions meant the same thing as convulsions. "Is that even a word? Are they spelled the same she asked?" They are both words and both different words at that. For entertainment purposes I will provide you with my assumed definition even though I could be wrong. Maybe someone will take the light 90 years from now in interpreting my definition or perceived definition of these words. To me a convolutions is something that represents a folding or a complex structure such as the folds of the brain. Where as, in a a convulsion is a physical act as someone made a fall into when they are suffering from epilepsy or choking or some act of involuntary muscle control. I also found it somewhat entertaining to hear the author describes a noble mental faculties and references to the higher brain. This book was written before World War I and World War II where was publicly documented and historically written down for the record that the human brain has the capability to perform things that are far less than noble and definitely not intrinsic to our own thought processes. I suspect there's also certain nonsecular references to the concept that a person is of a higher level of importance in the grand scheme of things. The connotations of this verbiage have much potential but its true intent is probably only something that we will build a speculate on going even further into the future.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Wonders of Sight, Hearing, Touch and Locomotion
Next we will start to explore Chart III. This is a relatively short section and it will conclude book 1 on the Human body.
Just to give you a little hint of what is to come, each section here seems to kick off with the description of “something” and Its Wonders.
Example
The Eye and Its Wonders
The Ear and Its Wonders
The Hand its Mechanisms and its Wonderful Endowments
I’m not making that up. You’ll see . . .
- Second Use of Breathing
Second Use of Breathing. –Nor is the stupendousness all. Nature dislikes a waste of energy. In addition to and by a wise adaptation and economy, the process of respiration is made to sub serve a second use no less important than that of purifying the blood — the power of speech. The exhaled air, laden though it may be with the human detritus and off-scourings of the body, and passing through the vocal organs can be transformed into pairs of faith, songs of hope and words of good cheer, kindly encouragement and expressions of love!
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That section definitely fits into our bizarre grammar category. As I transcribed those words from the text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program really had to do some backflips. It definitely stumbled a few times on that one. there so many bizarre points of view and usages of grammar in that paragraph but I’m not sure where to begin.
I guess all start at the end. They jump into a weird peculiar and strange way of talking about the good things that people can say because they breathe air out of their lungs. Don’t blame mer if I say a curse word, blame the air I’m breathing out?
The author didn’t try to state that exactly, but they definitely used a bunch of mumbo-jumbo and so their real meaning or intention behind their words is probably lost to the ages.
- Effect of Metallic Impurities
Effect of Metallic Impurities.– the effects of minute traces of metallic substances in drinking water have not yet been ascertained with sufficient accuracy, but it is quite possible that the entire sanitary condition of the district may depend in some measure on impurities of this description. Mr. Wanklyn suggests that the well-known salutary effect of what is called change of air may be, in reality, partly due to the escape from some extremely small metallic impurities in the water of the section of country from which removal takes place.
Well today, people know that heavy metals and water can be extremely poisonous or problematic for people to consume water with these impurities in place. It is somewhat remarkable that this had not been figured out as few as 100 years ago, and that what is relatively common knowledge today was only hypothetical esoteric pseudoscience 100 years back. It’s no wonder that so many developed countries today have so many heavy metal messes to clean up around the world. Today people are looking for the best fat burners that they can buy so they can load up on McDonald’s french fries and eat all that they want, we’ll just a few years back they are looking for safe water to drink, and not even knowing what safe was.