Circuit of the Blood. --the blood thus purified passes back to the heart to go on its circuit through the body, every organ of which renews its energy and vigor from the Magician's fiery wand, pure, healthy blood; while the air exhaled carries off the impurities.

Change in color of blood. --during this process the blood changes from a dark purple to a bright red. Pure air is the cheapest necessity and the greatest luxury of life. Let it not be the rarest. The relative proportion of the respirations to the pulsations of the heart is about 1 to 4 1/2 or 5; and the quantity of air required to keep the blood pure is very great. Indeed, respiration is the falling weight, event spring, which keeps the clock of life in motion; the inspirations and expirations are the strokes of the pendulum which regulate it.

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I have a new theory. Actually maybe this is my first theory. I think the authors may delve into flowery language and the peculiar like analogies whenever they don't know what they're talking about. I could be wrong I like to give the authors the benefit of the doubt. However it seems that whenever they lacked substance and factor knowledge, their prose gets a little loose.

I've also heard that it is a urban legend today that blood has two different colors. If that is truly an urban legend and blood does not have the color of purple and red, and this book might actually be one of possibly many sources that helped to create that legend, which may not be all that urban after all. Maybe more of a historical legend.

Wikipedia today provides an excellent description of what the color of blood is and why it is that color.  They describe a situation of optical illusions that led scientists and doctors as evidenced by the Library of Health to believe that veinous blood deprived of its oxygen was actually 'purple' or blue.  Sheesh

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE BY ELIMINATION OF DISEASE CARRIERS
  
  

  When speaking of preventative medicine, we include the methods used by physicians, state and federal government boards of health, etc.., to prevent the spread of disease, the most important is the work done by past and present men of science and their willing patients who have given their time, labor, and in many cases, their lives to discover the underlying causes of disease, for the latter, like everything else in the world, has its reasons for existence.  Thus it can readily be understood the disease cannot be properly prevented when the underlying cause is unknown.

  Before does section of the human body and experiments on animals were permitted, man’s knowledge of his own body and disease, its causes and symptoms and treatment was mere guesswork.  Thus in past centuries the arteries are thought to contain error instead of blood; disease was believed to be a curse from heaven or the king and everything lay in the hands of the gods as to whether a person recovered or not.

  This in the last century, man began to awaken from his sleep and by means of the discovery of the microscope and the permission to experiment upon living animals more and more the cause of disease, its transference from one animal to another and then from animal to man and man to man was tried, and it was the same symptoms occurred in the animal or man into which the blood of the animals suffering from the original disease had been placed by injection into their blood, etc.  By these methods gradually the cause of disease was found to be due to the presence of minute living bodies called bacilli or germs, etc., but it’s which were only visible when the blood, spit, urine, etc., of the sufferer was examined under the microscope and from this beginning are due the marvelous results of the present day in the prevention, treatment and cure of disease.

  Health.-disease can be prevented by the individual doing everything in his power to keep in the best physical condition.  Disease is a common enemy of all of us, waiting to destroy, but nature is in league with us if we obey her laws.  With a normal body and pureblood should the invader arrived, the fight is on our side.  But once the body is weakened by heredity as a result of our parents or forefathers neglect of the body, through the abuse of alcohol, tobacco or in moral living, lack of exercise, over eating and loss of sleep, overworked or lack of work or improper food, then will the soil be fertile for the planting of the germs of disease.  When exposed and once planted the flight will be in their favor, as the rundown body will not have sufficient vitality to overcome the invader and sickness and death result.

  So this is the kick off of the preventative medicine section.  I find this particular section interesting as it talks about the benefits of animal testing, which was very important in the early evolution of medicine and science but today is viewed much differently than it was then.  These days we’d perform a review of these procedures much differently than we did then, just like we review people differently such as Alli.

• Shape of Skull
  
  

  Bones Seen in the Plate — the bones of the skull observed in this beautiful plate are: the frontal, which forms the four head or front part of the skull; the parietal, constituting a portion of the side and top of the head; the occipital, forming the lower and back part of the skull, and the temporal, which forms the lowest part of the site any part of the base of the cranium. These several bones are joined together by notched seems, after the manner carpenters call “dove-tailing.”
  
  Shape of the Skull — the skull, as will be seen, is oval, which adapts it to the conformation of the brain, besides giving a greater resistance to pressure. The stronger and smaller and is in front, where danger is greatest to the brain, whilst the projections before and behind shield its less protected parks. The peculiar conformation and shape of the skull forms a strong shelter for the brain — an organ so delicate that if not so strongly guarded from injury, and ordinary blow falling upon it would destroy it forever.

  I find the description of the seems of the skull rather interesting. I am no doctor nor am I a carpenter, however the analogy of dovetailing strikes me as rather interesting. Upon looking at the picture in short one of the skull, I can distinguish get the impression that dovetailing might be an apt description. That does make me wonder how bones could be grown in a way that emulates dovetailing, however I suspect that it’s probably easier to grown organic substance in that manner than it is to join two pieces of wood by force into notched pieces and make them stick or hold in place. Maybe with the advances of nanotechnology and other areas of convergence and biotech we might actually see a day where actual dovetailing is performed with nanotechnology that grows itself into place.

  Can you imagine installing a tile floor or even a wood floor where instead of using grout or glue or a nail gun you activate a nano tech compound that remembers how to join itself and seal the seems of tile or would together?

  Don’t get me wrong I recognize that this would use a highly advanced technology to perform something that might actually emulate an old fashion way to cover a floor with tile or wood. It’s probably more likely by the time that we have got firmer grasp on nanotechnology that we may not have the Woods agreed a floor with and we may not have the desire to use tiles of floor covering opting instead for some more ergonomic substance that’s better for our feet and knees. I’m sure in a hundred years my comments will sound quaint and silly just like certain aspects of his books on plain silly to me today.

• Rhynoplasty
  
  

  Years ago California was not necessarily a place known for its health care system.  It was definitely not known for its capability to deliver some of the best medical procedures and practices such as cosmetic surgery or reconstructive surgery.  Today Beverly Hills and Los Angeles are both known for providing the home offices of some of the best cosmetic and reconstructive surgeons in the world.

  It started in part when they began catering to the rich and famous.  However there are only so many rich and famous people out there and more and more people are seeking out reconstructive processes such as rhinoplasty in Beverly Hills.

  In fact there are several good medical reasons why rhinoplasty Beverly Hills might be considered.  It can help many people suffering form chronic sinus infections or even people suffering from problematic breathing disorders such as snoring to breathe easy once again or possibly for the first time in their life.

  Procedures such as, rhinoplasty Los Angeles, do not just provide a nose job, but can in fact enable a person to live a more normal life.  Looking better is still one of the larger reasons for a rhinoplasty procedure, but after years of the procedures we are learning that they can cure or improve other medical problems that are not cosmetic in nature.