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.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Water in All Substances
  
  

  Water in All Substances.—Water was considered by the ancient philosophers as one of the four elements out of which all visible objects were constructed ; and, in reality, it enters to a greater or less extent into the composition of nearly all natural substances. Thus, for example, some vegetables, like cabbage or celery, contain as much as ninety-five per cent. of water ; and, on the other hand, close-grained marble may contain as much as four per cent. of water, or almost a quart to the cubic yard. On account of its remarkable solvent powers, which enable it to take up a smaller or larger quantity of nearly every substance with which it comes in contact, water is never found pure in a natural state; and, indeed, absolutely pure water for chemical purposes can only be obtained by repeated careful distillations.

  Its hard to imagine that for your every day person, the concept that liquids were often comprised of water as opposed to be a completely different substance all together was relatively new.  People may have suspected, but many scientists had not confirmed (or reconfirmed) this fact and they were just beginning to put together the concept of atoms and how they might form together.  So for some people this apparently obvious paragraph today might have been as foreign if not more to them as a digital cameras function might have been 50 or 100 years ago.

• Diet Profiles with MyFitnessPal
  
  

  As I go through the book of medicine, I’ve been thinking more and more about my health. I am not terribly unhealthy nor am I very overweight, however my diet is definitely not terrific.

  I thought I would get some sort of baseline assessment of what my dietary goals should be as it relates to my weight. I weigh about 173 pounds and I’m 6 foot one. I’ve recently put on about 10 pounds and I’d like to get down to an ideal weight of about 160, a very tone 160.

  I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder, but I don’t desire any excess fat either. I do work in front of a computer for many hours at a time and that lends itself to putting on a little weight around my belly. I do go jogging about four times a week for a couple miles.

  I went over to MyFitnessPal.com so I could establish a dietary profile. It only took about 60 seconds to complete this profile and get a very baseline assessment of what I might need to do.

  

  I wouldn’t have to make too many adjustments, but I would need to decrease my calories just a bit. This site all so offers a calorie counter, which I would need as I’m not very good at documenting these types of things on paper nor even understanding what it is I’m documenting.

  My wife is a lifetime member of Weight Watchers, but that just doesn’t work for me.

  The next step of courses to keep a diet journal or a food diary depending on how you want to look at it. That would definitely not be a problem for me as I journal just about everything that I do.

  I haven’t been terribly concerned about calories since I was in the military. Back then we had to worry about ensuring that we consume enough calories each day when we were in the field.That was about consuming lots of calories as opposed to today where I’m looking to consume the right amount of calories for a more sedentary lifestyle, and if I can eat healthier along the way, then even better.

• The Pyloric Gate and The Liver
  
  

  The Pyloric Gate.  — At the smaller end the muscular fibers contract and form a gateway — the pylorus, as it is called — which carefully guards the exit from the stomach, and allows no food to escape until properly prepared.  The gastric blood vessels are seeing distributing themselves over the outer surface of the organ, thus ensuring its nutrition and repair.

  The Liver.  — The liver is the secreting organ by which the bile is formed.  It is situated on the right side below the diaphragm, and is of a reddish-brown color.  It is a regular in form, being convex on the upper surface, irregularly concave behind, very thin in front, and weighs about 4 pounds.  It is, therefore, seen to be the largest organ or gland in the body.  It is divided into two lobes, the right and the left, the former being by far the larger.  I’m turning the flap over, we see how intricately is arranged internally.

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  It’s strange but there are only a few sections like this one where there are no bizarre items to report or identify.  It’s kind of a nice change of pace when the medical textbook reverts back to being a medical textbook.

  I’m sure some strange topic will come up to catch my attention soon and it’s not like topics today in real life don’t sometimes appear a little out of the ordinary.  I recently covered a reference to something known as tranquility diapers, which I believe is some reference to the peace of mind that a person suffering from incontinence, or IBD might experience after they utilize this particular product and start to live a more normalized life again. 

  In many ways it’s all a matter of perspective, my perspective of this old textbook is skewed significantly from the perspective of the initial writers and editors.  Like calculus problem I’m studying the derivative.  In this case the derivative can be measured by the span of time and change in knowledge .