Again this next section has a title that doesn't sound like something you'd find in a medical textbook. If I were to read this title is where I would think I was preparing to read a book about Hannibal Lecter. In fact maybe it was medical textbooks like this that inspired some evil doctor to become a cannibal somewhere.
Delicacy of the Organs. --the protection of the organs which carry on the stupendous office challenges our warmest admiration. So delicately are they arranged that the slightest pressure will cause intense pain, yet tons of air surged to and fro through their intricate passages, and bathe their innumerable cells without our knowledge, so to speak, of its coming and going. We annually perform over 8,400,000 acts of breathing, inhale over 150,000 feet of air, and purify nearly 4000 tons of blood! This gigantic and unburdensome process goes on constantly, never wearying or worrying us when in robust health, we are struck dumb founded with amazement when the cold calculations of science reveal to us its magnitude and marvelousness.
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So it does appear that the title for this action was completely inept. The section actually is a off topic. It jumps from the concept that our organs are designed with sensors to indicate pain when the organs or threaten, and then jumped into the statistics section talking about just how much the organs process. Nothing in this section talked about how fragile the organs might be, and much to the chagrin of many cannibalistic psychologists, there is no talk about how to cook up a meal. ;)
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Transformation of Food Into Flesh
Transformation of Food Into Flesh.– How strange this is — the transformation of food into human flesh, into human thoughts! We eat a meal; it is composed of meat, bread, vegetables and liquids. The more solid part is ground by the teeth, mixed with the different juices, dissolved, changed, organize and is swept through the body and the circulation of the blood. Each organ sees as its own particular food as it passes. Within the cells of the various tissues it is transformed into the soft, sensitive brain, or the hard, callous bone; here into the nerve of sight, there into gristle or tendon; here briny tears are formed, they are bland saliva; in the stomach, acid juice; in the skin, acrid perspiration; bile for digestion, oil for the hair, nails for the fingers, muscle for the strong arm of toil, and flesh and fat to give shade, form and beauty to the face.
I think the previous section prepared me actually for this section. In the previous set action the author sounded like he was speaking gibberish. In this section the author or marbles at the ability of the body to turn one type of matter into another matter which is part of the human body or system. Today I look at this process as a function, a program if you will run by the programmed DNA of the human system and control by the major organs. In some ways my own interpretation is only slightly less obscure than the authors interpretation. The other marvels at something that is relatively new and highly misunderstood where is I take it for granted.
Neither one of our perspectives in that regard are more accurate than the other or may be a better way to say that is that we both have a perspective that equally valuable or valid. The author doesn’t actually offer up any interpretation as to how the systems work or how it performs any of these items that they discuss, instead the author chooses just to remark on the fact that the actions are interesting even amazing.
In many ways almost any system that we talk about today might have appeared equally as amazing to the author a hundred years ago. Some of those systems could be interpreted better back then than they could stay such as the workings of kitchen faucets possibly as opposed to the workings of a Turing machine or computer neither of which had been invented as of the writing of this book, but both of which had been speculated on for many years.
In many ways it’s these types of remarks it illustrates that the book is filled in large parts with what I might call science fiction or scientific interpretation or even a scientific editorial and not scientific fact.
- Choose a Better Life Health Blog
Last night I had dinner with a gentleman from iContact. He mentioned that his wife had been writing about her effort to change her life, live healthier, eat healthier and lose weight.
She has been very successful at achieving her goals. You can follow some of her journey, her experiences, and benefit from her tips and lessons learned at ChooseABetterLife.net.
I’m hoping to meet more health related bloggers today and as soon as I can find one of my missing cufflinks, I’m off to meet up with people for a couple pre-show breakfast get togethers.
- The Eardrum
The Eardrum.-on the back of this flap is seeing a strikingly natural representation of the middle ear, the tympanum or drum, as it is frequently called. For the bottom of the tympanum is observed the Eustachian tube, through which is conveyed air from the pharynx to the middle ear. Across this chamber is seen stretched three very tiny, Cingular phones, which, from their shape, or called a hammer, the ample and the states. These delicate bones are connected together, one by ball and socket joint, the other by a hinge joint and by ligaments, and are moved by small muscles; they serve to convey the wave sounds across the tympanum cavity to the internal a year.
There is that crazy word again, tympanum. In architecture, I believe that refers to an arch or an arch system. I have a feeling the author looked it up and couldn’t stop using it, like some desperately needing addiction treatment repeats a phrase over and over again without any rhyme nor reason.