Pulmonary Veins. -- From this net-work of arteries and air sells the radicals of the pulmonary veins arise, and, coalescing into larger and larger branches, at length accompany the arteries and return the blood to the left auricle of the heart in a purified condition. The pulmonary arteries and veins differ from the same vessels in the other parts of the body, since the former conveys the innocent blood, and the latter arterial blood.
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I stopped on this short paragraph as I approach some larger sections. This segment again makes a reference to the word "net-work" in a style that is now out dated. The next section takes us into Breathing and then lung capacity.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Stagnant Water
Stagnant Water. — stagnant water is, from the large quantity of organic matter in a decomposing state which it holds in suspension or solution, exceedingly unfitted for drinking and culinary purposes, no matter how transparent it may appear; and it should, in consequence, he carefully avoided whenever running water can possibly be procured. Pond-water, Canal-water, ditch-water and marsh-water all come under this category, and should be scrupulously shunned, under penalty of suffering from fever and ague, dysentery, typhoid fever, and many other dangerous maladies.
Almost as if to emphasize my last point about my distaste for the excessive use of punctuation in the form of hyphens, the author almost seems to throw it in my face with this particular section. If I were driving a car through the cornfields of Illinois where I was born, and I was hampered in my journey due to the excessive bugs that tend to plaster windshields and evening, this would be akin to what the author is doing here only if I was suddenly swatted with a car covers sized bug, which after living in Illinois for many years is something that I’m sure exists.
- Video Health News from 6-19-07
Every so often we are going to add in some video news highlights from that particular day relating to health and medicine. I’m hoping to provide some contrasting perspective of modern health trends versus health trends from the 19th century.
- Muscles of the Eye
Muscles of the Eye.-I’m turning the flap we see four of the six delicate, who with all strong muscles which I would hold I firmly in its bony orbit, but also moved upward toward the canopied vaults of heaven, downward to view the beauties of nature on earth; or sideways to the right or left, Spain have to horizon at a single glance! The next illustration gives us a graphic and faithful to limitation of the beautiful arrangements of the numerous curtains, humors, lenses, pigments, membranes, nervous coats and blood vessels which enter into the composition of this remarkable organ, each of which is exquisitely adapted to the respective functions has to perform.
As you can tell, we are getting back on track with this effort after a couple month hiatus mostly do to (ironically) poor health. No other projects are going to slow us down and we now have a promoter that will even help us hire more transcriptionists as we cover Wilmington real estate.