The Olfactory Nerve -- the olfactory nerve is graphically displayed, branches of which are seen passing in all directions over the mucous membrane of the nose. A little to the left of the olfactory nerve is seeing the posterior nares, and immediately below the pharynx and epiglottis, the aesophagus or gullit, the larynx and trachea or wind-pipe. The Tongue -- the tongue, or organ of taste and instrument of speech, is most accurately represented, the muscular fibers of which are seen running in different but determinant ways, is giving to this important organ variety and regularity of motion and 18 it to assume numerous shapes and forms. The cervical portion of the spinal column is seeing, with the fleshy part of the back of the neck attached. This plate is one that commends itself to our deep in careful study.There is not too much that leaps out from this particular section as the text is basically describing a picture. I didn't spell a suspect is in the way that the book spells the word with an 'a' proceeding the 'e' of esophagus. There is something about old writing which I have not learned yet that sometimes puts an 'a' before and 'e'. I've seen this in words such as, Aegypt v. Egypt and many others. One of these days I will look up the history of the word possibly it's a Latin derivative of some type or another, I'm not certain today.
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 . . .
- Interior Arrangement of Lungs
Interior Arrangement of Lungs. — On turning this flap over we find a vertical section of lungs, showing their anterior arrangements. The lower end of the trachea divides, one portion going to each long. These again subdividing continue to subdivide in geometrical order, growing smaller and smaller with each division, and extending to every part of the lungs, finally terminating in a cluster of air cells, bound together by cellular tissue and forming a lobule. These lobules vary in size accordingly as they are located on the surface of the lung or deeper in its tissues. Each lobule is separate and distinct from the other, and forms in itself a perfect and independent lung in miniature
Function Of the Lobules. — In this arrangement we see the boundless wisdom of the Creator displayed, for were it not for this wise and perfect; provision — one of the very greatest importance in the process of respiration, since it enables each individual lobule to perform its functions independently of the rest — tubercular disease, bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs would not only be incurable, but would prove to be very rapidly fatal.
______________
The last paragraph of this section is written with very peculiar grammar, some of it seems to be due to its age of a hundred years or more and the rest seems to be bad grammar that slip by the editor, this mixed in with the nonsecular reference makes what would probably be an important statement somewhat obscure. - THE VERMIFORM APPENDIX
The section of the book is supports chart number two is about to come to a close
. The next few sections are short simple and mostly to the point. The author doesn’t seem to dwell on the topics with excessive words. In general many of these areas discuss a number of organs are actually fairly important and it’s rather odd that the author gave them so little attention compared to the drivel that the author used for complete nonsense. So here we go…
The chart brings into view the location and form of that wonderful little organ known as the Vermiform (wormlike) Appendix (appendage). It is an appendage of the Caecum, or lower bowel. Its uses as a bowel appendage have never been established. It occurs in other animals besides man. Notwithstanding its diminutive size and uselessness as an organ is the seat of that most painful and dangerous disease called Appendicitis, which was formerly attributed to the presence of some foreign body, is a grape-seed, lodged within. But it has been found inflammation of the Appendage may arise from numerous other causes. Many doctors insist that a surgical operation — that is, the entire removal of it with knife — is the proper curative agent, especially in acute cases. But others insist that the knife is too frequently used, and that the disease, if taken in time, is quite surely curable by other means.
Will a hundred years from the date of this book, we still don’t know too much about appendix. However removal by surgery does say to be the most common form of curing this problem. A hundred years ago before antibiotics have been discovered, surgeries were much more dangerous and it is readily apparent why scientists and doctors would have considered alternate methods of curing appendicitis.
If you’re looking for something funny, do a quick Google search on cures for appendicitis and you’ll still find some peculiar notions of how to cure the problem.