Second Use of Breathing. --Nor is the stupendousness all. Nature dislikes a waste of energy. In addition to and by a wise adaptation and economy, the process of respiration is made to sub serve a second use no less important than that of purifying the blood -- the power of speech. The exhaled air, laden though it may be with the human detritus and off-scourings of the body, and passing through the vocal organs can be transformed into pairs of faith, songs of hope and words of good cheer, kindly encouragement and expressions of love!

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That section definitely fits into our bizarre grammar category. As I transcribed those words from the text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program really had to do some backflips. It definitely stumbled a few times on that one. there so many bizarre points of view and usages of grammar in that paragraph but I'm not sure where to begin.

I guess all start at the end. They jump into a weird peculiar and strange way of talking about the good things that people can say because they breathe air out of their lungs. Don't blame mer if I say a curse word, blame the air I'm breathing out?

The author didn't try to state that exactly, but they definitely used a bunch of mumbo-jumbo and so their real meaning or intention behind their words is probably lost to the ages.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Art of Walking
  
  

  Art of Walking.- walking requires the nicest adjustment, prompt action, and the finest calculations to maintain the dignity, proper attitude, equipoise and balance of the body.  This is well illustrated when one runs up against any obstacle in the dark.  We observed then with what had long force the body is propelled forward.  In walking the first thing that occurs as the incline of the body for work; the foot is then gradually raised on the toes, and brought from a horizontal position into an almost vertical one; at the same time Denis, which was at first considerably bent, straightened out by the advancing forward movement.  Every part of the leg and thigh is changed its position except the toes; that part far this for the toes and most of all; and gradually diminishing in geometrical proportions downward.

  Nice descriptions here even a reference to a commonality in 1910, the blacksmith.  Today, we’d be more likely to discover a career mom on a tread mill with a husband at home taking nuphedrine to lose weight.

• View of the Eye
  
  

  The next section covers The View of the Eye on page 36.

  The next section goes into a short description of the image of the eye as provider from a profile of a human skull which includes some of the muscles and nerves associated with the eyeball. It does not include a detailed description were drawing of the actual eyeball other than its contractual dry within that cross-section including the rest of the head.

  View of the Eye — We can likewise view the human eye as it lays in position in its bony socket, and wonder at our creators munificence and benevolence in providing us with such a delicate instrument of vision with which to light our way about in the world, and view the magnificent beauties of nature that surround us on every hand. Here, too, we observe the teeth, those essential prerequisites to personal beauty, and.able adjuncts to the powers of articulation and speech, protruding through the gums, their roots being visible above and below the gums; and the lower set we see the dental nerve distributing its nervous supply to their individual and collective roots.

  There are a couple things that stand out in this one simple paragraph.

  1. This book is written essentially by a collection of editors, that seemed to have taken information from many other oaks and sources over the years. As the book was written initially in the 1860s and updated throughout the next 50 odd years it’s possible that copyrights and copying or even citing sources were not as necessary at the time. So it’s difficult to tell who the original source of any of this information might have been other than the collective thank you at the beginning of the book. With all that said, it strikes me as odd that the editors would stray from the stated topic of “the eye” and move into a short discussion of the teeth within the same paragraph.
  2. Often the book has already mentioned references to God, as the book was written at the turn of the century closing out the Victorian era, I assume that they are referring to the Christian God. I actually have few doubts about that. However it is illustrative of the fact that this particular book was written in a way that was not secular in nature. I suspect we will see many additional references throughout the book as time goes on and I’m withholding further views on the subject until I have a more complete picture of what the true views of the “editors” might be as they manifest in the edited writing.
• The Pelvis
  
  

  The Pelvis.  — The pelvis is an irregular-shaped basin, formed by the hip bones and the pubic bones in front.  In the upper and back part is the foot of the spinal column, consisting of a wedge-shaped bone called the sacrum.  It is observed firmly planted between the wide spreading hip bones of the pelvis, like the keystone of an arch, and gives a strong support to the burden above.

  Like the section referring to the composition of the chest this section has very little to remark upon other the fact that it has very little to remark upon and so I’ll leave it at that.  To certain extent I feel like I’m speeding through the sections is there just basically describing an image.  In the first chart this was a little bit more entertaining, however I know from looking for in the book that there’s much more entertainment to be had in future pages.

  The section does refer to ‘hip bones’ as opposed to the modern compound word spelling of hipbones.