Blood-Vessels.  --on the next lap we have a graphic illustration of the internal arrangements of the blood-vessels of the lungs and bronchial tubes.  The pulmonary artery, arising from the right ventricle of the heart, conveys the venous blood to the lungs.  It penetrates the lungs and divides and subdivides into branches, which accompanied the bronchial tubes and terminate in a dense capillary net-work upon the walls of their cells, where the blood undergoes that magical change, giving up its poisonous qualities and becoming revivified and healthful.

_______________ Note the use of the word 'net-work', obviously an early predecessor to the very common word network.  I found this little nugget of gold to be very interesting as networks are so synonymous in today's world and speech, and found it very amusing to find an example of the early use of the word before it had truly come together into its modern-day form, which even today is now abbreviated to a more common usage of "net,"  I guess we take the "work" in network for granted these days. :-) For more on the entymology of the word Network see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=network&searchmode=none

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Great Value and Beauty of the Plate
  
  

  Great Value and Beauty of the Plate.–We can understand much of this wonderful process. We have looked into the stomach, watched its peculiar actions and traced its various steps, from which the scientist is capable, in his laboratory of knives, mortars, baths, chemicals and filters, of imitating many of the operations of digestion; but just at the moment he thinks himself most successful, he is compelled to pause.  At the threshold of that “one step more,” which Fontenelle required, “and he would surprise nature herself,” he stops, and very wisely, without concealment of his designs, admires, then wonders, and finally worships with all the reverence of his soul.

   

  After reading that diatribe, I have to honestly say I have no idea what the author is talking about.  The other seems beyond some strange sort of rant about science, scientists in the digestive system.  Unfortunately he’s ranting on a bunch of nonsense almost sound like he’s talking about Frankenstein’s monster.  One things for sure I’m glad that I didn’t take a class instructed by this writer.  If this book is that hard to understand from sheer gibberish, I can just imagine what’ll lecture would be like.

  I don’t think this has so much to do with the difference in the decades of the century even.  This seems to be more of an issue of an author suffering from the ability to provide a clear thought and written format.  It’s almost like listening to Charlie Brown’s teacher lecture on real estate over the telephone in a Peanuts cartoon.

  WAh wah wah wah , wu wah . . . .

   

  This entry seems to reaffirm my belief that this author got paid by the word and not by the concept of thought.

• How can the housewife protect her children from drinking germ laden milk?
  
  

  How can the housewife protect her children from drinking germ-laden milk?-First make sure that the dairy from which the milk is applied is clean and up-to-date and the city dealer delivers the milk at her doorstep in clean bottles.  Do not allow it sit in the sun in the early morning in warm weather, or about the kitchen at any time of the year, but place it immediately on ice in a clean refrigerator until ready to use.  When taking a certain quantity of milk out of the bottle, if for the baby use a chappen in dipper, and do not allow it to stand uncovered for flies to contaminate.  Milk may all so be contaminated by water from any source of pollution if their utensils are carelessly washed with a supply of water from an infected water supply as any dirty well or one contaminated by cesspool, outhouse, the newer pit which is infecting water to the soil or from drainage.

  It is absolutely vital to a country to protect its milk supply as two thirds of the dust under two years of age are traceable to either germ laden milk from dairies were not properly handled by dealers, nurses, mothers, etc., who are careless or too ignorant to appreciate the danger of allowing babies milk bottle nipple being dirty, contaminated by flies or who allow a milk bottle to sit in the hot morning sun,-result a sick baby, followed by death.

  Again another interesting section especially as it’s trying to convince people to keep no cold and keep refrigerated.  Possibly a new concept for this time, being the turn-of-the-century and a long shot away from concepts such as diet drugs like Phentermine.

• Cockroaches
  
  

  Cockroaches.–Cockroaches are brownish or black in color, broad and flattened in shape and smooth and bard to the touch. All cockroaches should be destroyed. They not only annoy, but, even though it has not been proven, they, no doubt, carry disease germs by coming in contact with discharges, etc., from ill persons and convey filth and germs to food, etc.

  When we lived in Boca Raton several years ago, we used to see extremely large ‘palmetto bugs’ which look a great deal like a cock roach but are a little different.  Many people only run into these bugs taking Orlando vacations or hit the beach in Florida or the gulf, but when you live there the relationship is up close and sometimes personal!

  They are very numerous in pantries, kitchens and in the walls near a stove and fire places. They are apt to be abundant in oven rooms or bakeries and wherever the temperature is kept above normal. They usually appear at night or wherever light is absent and thus are protected from their common enemies. Owing to their shape they can squeeze into tiny cracks. They scurry away when surprised and generally escape capture or destruction, due to their speedy gait. They feed on animal matter, cereals and any food material ; also eat woolens, leather cloth and leather bindings of books (clue to the presence of paste). They give off a fetid, nauseous odor, which persists even after thorough cleaning. They taint food supplies, stain shelves and dishes and when present in large numbers, render the air of a room unbearable. This is duo not only to their excretion, but mostly to an oily liquid secreted in the scent gland and a dark colored fluid in the mouth. They will destroy bedbugs. No contagious disease can be said to be properly treated or isolated, if cock­roaches are scurrying about the walls, carpets, food, etc., of a sickroom and allowed to persist and possibly convey the germs of the disease to others in the house or to neighbors.