Man the Most Complex Body.-- it embodies in the epitome of the whole universe!  Man is more elaborate, more complex, more God-like, than any other living organism; more wonderful, more beautiful, more marvelous, that any work of human ingenuity, conception or construction. Indeed, the mechanism, the skill and the workmanship displayed in the human body is simply perfection itself.  In conception, it is divine; and design, perfect; in architecture, grand; in construction, wonderful; and beauty, lovely; inform, symmetrical; an outline, sublime; in strength, great; and arrangements, marvelous; and mobility, transcendent; and adaptability, unexcelled; in fine, when studied in all its parts and their relationship to each other, we are led to exclaim with the Psalmist David, that the human body is "fearfully and wonderfully made."

This paragraph was excruciatingly interesting for its use of commas and semicolons.  I'm using a dictation device to record this and I thought I was going to go nuts with the alterations from commas to semicolons and back again! This particular section precedes and follows chart to which provides a diagram of the human torso absent skin, it's a flip open picture that provides a great deal of detail of the internal organs of the human torso.  Part of me wonders if all of this exceptional description and praise of the beauty of the human body is used in part to show the purest intent of the author does not be sacrilegious or possibly vulgar and providing pictures of human body.  I see this in part because last I was watching CNN and date pretrade apportion a segment on a doctor in Egypt.  This particular doctor is a woman and she is a sexologist and a Muslim and the first-ever talkshow host on Muslim television that talks about sex.  She is sometimes labeled the Dr. Ruth of the Islamic world. As I was reading the section I was thinking of that CNN segment with her and wondering if she had to utilize similar praises and religious associations so as to not to offend her audience anymore than she already is just by the act of what she's doing and the perception of the taboo and possibly stigmas that are associated with what she is doing. In addition this paragraph also had a religious reference which I have no idea what it means, and frankly this evening I don't have the gear acid you to figure it out I'm sure there will be many more to explore later on in the book.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• From Mothers Home Nursing Families to Nurses Traveling Across the US
  
  

  I was doing some research on nursing last night and I came across an interesting trend.  Nurses today in the present-day are finding in taking temporary positions that enable them to travel across the United States to work as a nurse in multiple locations, or should say in different locations.  So for example if you are a nurse and you wanted to spend the winter in Miami, you could accept a position as a travel nurse and work in Miami for two or three months during the middle of winter.  These positions seem to be available all around the United States, and they offer outstanding pay rates and even benefits that are normally associated with full-time work such as a 401(k) plan.

  This concept of travel nursing seems to have evolved and changed over the years quite a bit.  As we continue to dig within the book of medicine, we are repeatedly reminded that the book was written 90 years ago for an audience primarily consisting of mothers caring for their families and nurses in remote locations where other medical care was unavailable.  A single doctor might cover a single town or even a county or territory back then.  A traveling nurse back then might have to go by horseback to take care of an ailing patient, or they might work in a hospice or alms house typically for very low pay if they were paid anything at all.  Room and board were actually the standard pay of the time.

  Fast-forward 90 years and the situation has changed dramatically.  Nursing is very high in demand to the extent that people will actually pay a nurse to travel across the country and work for a few months at a time.  Part of this is probably driven by the shortage of nurses and a number of different areas and part of it probably relates to the fact that elderly and ailing patients are much more mobile these days.  It has been very common for a couple decades now for people to travel south for the winter to Florida or Phoenix or even Southern California.  This influx of people that need medical attention seems to be matched by nurses that are willing to go to those locations and work.  Furthermore, were not necessarily talking about a live-in nurse that works 24 hours a day taking care of an elderly patient, were talking about a nurse that works a shift sometimes in a home sometimes a hospital or other medical facility.  That leaves pony of time for a real life after hours and many opportunities to explore the location that they’re visiting. 

• The Collar Bone
  
  

  The Collar Bone.  — The collar bone is fast and that one into the breast bone in the first drip, and at the other into a shoulder blade.  It does holes the shoulder-joint out from the chest, eight in protecting the important vessels of the axilla, and gives the arm a greater range of freedom, mobility and play.

  In this section I first noted that the word collar bone is used as two separate words as opposed to the compound word in use today, collarbone .  You might also notice that the author regularly uses an excessive number of dashes in the text.  Unfortunately on occasion I lose her drop some of these when my spell checker and dictation service gets confused by the excessive number of dashes.

• How Can We Keep Healthy?-
  
  

  How Can We Keep Healthy?- the best answer to that question is, to be the child of healthy parents income from a sturdy stock.  The nurse at the mother’s breast and raise outdoors in the sunshine and fresh air, to sleep at plenty of air in the room at night.  To have a natural movement of the files once a day.  And through childhood to receive three meals a day consisting of pure wholesome food, plenty of milk, free from germs, pure water and sleep from 10 to 12 hours a night throughout childhood, depending on the age.  To play into work which will be in the air and develop the muscles gradually.  Every child should be vaccinated anytime after the six-month and repeat at the seventh year, to be done at once, in addition during an epidemic of smallpox.  It is not necessary or write for a child to have scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, etc., as so many people think.  They are often followed by deafness, heart disease, nervous diseases and paralysis which nature never meant to inflict a child with to go through life.

  Children’s teeth, eyes and throat should be examined at intervals and many defects corrected.  The tonsils and adenoids (growths would stop up the nose and prevent air being breathed properly) should be removed.  Enlarged tonsils often cause deafness by preventing air from the throat reaching the ear cavity due to stopping the opening of the Eustachian tube which leads from the throat to the ear.

  Children should not be taught to many branches at school.  Every school should be well lighted with plenty of fresh air.  Many of the smaller schools are now being built on open ropes of buildings in large cities or in platforms placed out of doors with just a roof overhead to protect the children.  All schools should be held in the open where possible.  There is absolutely no chance of cold that the children are warmly dressed in experiments are proven that the children are healthier, more attentive and mentally deficient where they had been in school in the open air.

  This kicks off an interesting theme that I have seen throughout this section of the book as I took a sneak peak into things.  Its the concept that fresh air all by itself is important to health.  Now, I suspect that the real benefit to good health is actually the absence of pollution, which was a real problem even 100 years ago with coal soot and other contributors of new industrial run off problems.  If we could time travel, I think one of the interesting things we’d discover if we could send people back to large and small cities armed with digital cameras is that pollution was likely very rampant 100 years ago.  This was very likely a significant health problem.

  That said, keeping people outside in the fresh air just for the sake of being outside in the fresh air regardless of the temperature is approximately where the science runs into pseudoscience and misunderstanding.