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Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Book of Medicine Goes to Vegas for Blogworld
  
  

  This week I am in Las Vegas for the Blogworld convention.  I have not actually packed up the book of medicine with me.  It is 100 years old and very very large and does not travel well (it gets plane sick).

  I am meeting a number of great bloggers and companies already.  I am looking for other medical and health bloggers.  The conference officially starts in about 3 hours, and I have met a couple already.

  I’m getting ready to expand out the Book of Medicine as a site and part of that will be driven by the next chapter segments in the History of Medicine.  The book was comprehensive in its day covering all areas of health from surgery and bone setting to colds and herbs and even physical fitness.  Back then health insurance and life insurance did not exist (correction term insurance and whole life didn’t exist, but you could get insurance from several companies, and if you paid you could get insurance on a person, but there was not a great deal of actuarial data behind it.  It was more like the health syrum’s of the same time.  Lots of promises, but no real science nor results.)

  So if you are a health, medicine, alternative medicine blogger and you are out here at blogworld feel free to drop me a comment.  I’d be happy to meet up with you and make some connections.

• 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 .

• The Shoulder Joint
  
  

  The Shoulder Joint. — The shoulder joint, formed as it is by the shoulder-blade (scapula), collarbone (clavicle), and the arm bone, is most beautifully designed and executed. It comprises a shallow ball and socket joint, the supporting the freest rotary movements. The shallowness of the socket, however, accounts for the frequent dislocations of this joint; but that is compensated for by the EC, graceful carriage and swaying of the arm, which is deeper socket would not permit.

  As in the section titled, “The Ribs” this section utilizes the word “freest”, I’m assuming this word is some sort of combination of the word free and est, which probably refers to the most amount of freedom allowed or something of that nature. Today we probably use the words maximum range of motion or maximum freedom war something of that nature. We might even use the word freest!

  Now, I’m not really a betting man. I like to play cards and Texas Hold ‘em especially, but I’d be willing to be that the word freest is not a real word anymore. I may not being hitting the poker tables anytime soon with other bets, but I’ll take that one any day of the week.