Beauty of the Brain Views -- every view of the human brain we have seen in this series of magnificent and unparalleled anatomical plates has inspired our admiration and held us spellbound and utter astonishment in amazement at the limitless attributes, the diversified powers, and the variety of functions this wondrous and mysterious organ is called upon to perform in the hourly transaction and business pursuits of daily human life. And yet, notwithstanding the marvelous properties of this elaborate organ, it is the least solid and most unsubstantial looking body of the human casket. Consistency of the Brain -- it consists of eighty per cent. Of water, seven per cent. of albumen, some phosphorized fat and some other minor substances. Such is the composition of the mighty and powerful organ which rules the world. Whilst the brain is the seat of sensation, yet it can be cut, burned or electrified without causing pain in itself. Strange, passing strange, or the proprieties and powers of the brain!

These two segments both represents a very strange and slightly ignorant view of the brain. The first section is entirely devoted to talking about the mysteries and relative beauties of the organ known as the brain. On occasion in modern times a professor might leap upon a soap box and go off on a rant or something describing a topic that they are passionate about in the way described above. There's something about the tone and the use of language that goes far beyond that and makes this language seems some what similar to language we might expect to find in a be styled movie about the past. However this book evidences the fact that such language did exist and in fact was put into print in a medical textbook. The second section offers up something that I found some was a pricing. It's not so much the language but the way the word percent is spelled. Above you will find a word percent spelled with an extra space in between the words per and the words cent with a period following the word cent. I had never considered the possibility that the two words might have been separated a hundred years ago. Now that I'm studying the anatomy of those particular words it strikes me that they do make some logical sense apart. The percentage is a fraction of a whole it can also be viewed as a ratio and so if a whole is made up of one half substance and one half no substance, it could be expressed as one part substance per two parts combined substance and no substance. That thought makes absolutely no sense as I read back on it, but it's the best I can do to try and piece together those words may be my beautiful brain isn't working quite up to par this evening!

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• What to do to Ret Rid of Flies
  
  

  What to do to Ret Rid of Flies.-Screen your windows and doors.  Do it early in the spring before flight time and keep it up until cold weather calms.  Screen all food, especially milk.  Do not eat food that has been in contact with flies.  Screen the baby’s bed and keep flies away from the baby’s bottle, nickel and food, rattle, toys, etc.  Keep flies away from the sick, especially those ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and tuberculosis, etc.  Screen the patient’s bed.  Kill every fly seem to enter the sick room.  Disinfect all discharges, dressings, bandages, etc., from the patient and burn where possible catch all flies by use of sticky flypaper, traps and liquid poisons.  A good poison to destroy flies is Tuesday is too steep is two teaspoonfuls from outside a pint of water sweetened with sugar and placed him saucers throughout the house.  Be sure and have poisonous be sure and have poisons out of reach of children and family pet.  To read an infected house of flies, burning each room I read from powder.  Darken the room allowing only ray of light to enter at edge of window shades.  Sprinkle I read from powder over hot coals and Kerry about Rome.  The flies will be stunned by the fumes and can be readily swept up.  This is done because the flies will seek the light to escape the fumes enfold near the windows.  Swat a fly whenever seen.  It cattle can easily be made to kill the flies with by taking an oblong sheet of water draws and mailing it to a stick of suitable link for handle.

  I do not know what I read from as but I would suggest that the concept of shutting the shades and just leaving the crack of light to attract the insects to light it is a smart concept for trying to then have a an easy target and today in a world where we can easily go buy a plastic flyswatter mass-produced somewhere it’s kind of interesting to consider how he might go about making a flyswatter from scratch with water draws mailing it to a stick.    Today, we might worry about how to get our bathroom faucets spotless, because we have progressed past the point where we have to worry about flies.

• The Neck Muscles
  
  

  The next section sets out the goal of covering the Neck Muscles. As the section of the book is describing an image, it shouldn’t be assumed that this will entail the full discourse on these areas of the body. It’s much more likely that this is a simple overview of these areas and more details will follow as there are 1600 more pages to go. So as we read this we should look at this as the simple summary introduction of the professional doctor attempting to describe the subject matter of the human body to a laywoman as the book is set out to educate wives and mothers in the arts of family nursing.

  The neck muscles — this beautiful illustration brings out in bold relief is superficial and deep muscles of the neck, and, at the same time, we observe a faithful to litigation, not only of the relative position of the carotid artery and jugular vein, but also of the manner in which muscular and fleshy part of the neck receives its nervous supply.

  This is a short section wrapping up the primary section titled “the brain; and a vertical section of the face and neck.” Again this one paragraph mention something that was referenced in the previous paragraph. It references the idea of the nervous supply. The section that contain information on the “view of the eye” went into slight detail about the supply of nerves to the teeth, “we see the dental nerve distributing its nervous supply to their individual and collective roots,” and then again we see the same description of a nervous supply here in the section, “and fleshy part of the neck receives its nervous supply.”

  This reference to the nervous supply seems to describe something more than just a system of nerves as it might be described day and hints that a conceptual difference possibly stemming from a lack of knowledge about what the nervous system actually dozer performs. Scientists of the day were not ignorant of the electrical connections in the nervous system and the analogies to the movement of current, as many experiments have been done on animals and other systems of the day to identify the cause-and-effect associated with putting occurrence to a nerve for a muscle. To a certain degree this appears to be a choice of semantics probably utilized by the editors as opposed to an actual medical view. However based on the context that is not entirely possible to confirm or ascertain.

• The common fly (Musca domestica)
  
  

  The common fly (Musca domestica).- the only way to prevent the flight curing diseases to destroy history in place, keep them out of the home, etc., when developed, by screens and swat or catch by flypaper, etc., everyone seen in a room.

  Houseflies are a danger to human life.  Airborne filth, feed upon garbage, sewage waste matter of all kinds.  They carry germs on the pro-business of their bodies, and a single flaw is known to have carried as many as 350,000 germs and given them off into the liquid food in which it was floating.  They also carry numerous germs inside their bodies which they convey to food, etc., and their vomit and all matter.

  Flies can carry disease germs of typhoid fever, consumption, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases from a sufferer to you.  They come in contact with your food, milk, water, etc., you’re sleeping child, or a light on an open wound, direct from the garbage can, because the door, this bit industry, etc., from decaying animal and vegetable matter and from the sick room.  Thus every individual should do everything possible to aid the physician, city and state and destroy these known carriers of filth and disease and thereby prevent sickness, due to carelessness and indifference by permitting flies to breathe and live.

  If you consider the tone of this particular section, you would think that the housefly was the Swiss Army knife of disease carriers in the Western world.  In fact today we understand their purpose and the world a little bit better, but that doesn’t mean that they should be entirely permitted to run amok.  Typically the presence as a result of some other item that has started to decay in the area and attracted flies.  The presence of this item sometimes can be more dangerous than the flight itself, but the fly can definitely spread that around once the process is started.  In their defense there are some practical uses for utilizing flies or even sterile I’ll maggots to help clean items from time to time.