Coagulation of the Blood. --according to Dr. Draper, of New York, 20,000,000 die at a single breath! Blood when exposed to the air coagulates, and the value of this peculiar yet intrinsic property cannot be overestimated. Win and archery is ruptured bleeding takes place, the blood coagulates and forms a plug, thus preventing further hemorrhage.thus we observe with what divine foresight and wisdom, not only the wants of the body are provided for, but also the incidents to which it is liable.

At the beginning of this topic I started to assume that the author was referring to the death of blood cells in the number of 20 million as opposed to people or something else. Even the book with a section heading it sounds a little sensational. The description of coagulation wasn't too bad and it made sense and then the author seemed to lose his scientific perspective again and started talking about the divine and basically spouting some relative nonsense which again makes me do believe that the author had reached the extent of his knowledge. I think he was just basically filling in the text with more words. If I didn't know better I would suspect the author was being paid by the word and basically was just paid three times over what that information was worth. Actually, come to think of it, I do not know better. I have done some external research to attempt to identify the bonafides of the author and the editors, but have so far come up short in that department. I couldn't verify their credentials as medical professionals any more than I could say that they were masons that specialized in the construction of outdoor fireplace settings.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Cerebrum and Cerebellum
  
  

  I’m starting to get caught up on my study of the book of medicine now. Today I’m covering a larger section on the cerebrum and cerebellum and tomorrow I’ll be covering the olfactory nerve in the tongue.

  Cerebrum and Cerebellum - We observed that the cerebrum, the seat of mind and volition, is much larger than the cerebellum or little brain; a biz though that was not enough area for the evolution of the mind, we see this part of the brain most curiously wrinkled and folded into various sized convolutions, thus increasing the mental service. The more numerous these convolutions are, the higher and more noble and mental faculties and intellectual powers become. The hemisphere of the brain, here shown, is seen to be divided into three lobes, the frontal, middle and posterior. The Corpus Callosum, or the great commissioner of the brain, is most faithfully represented, and immediately below is seen the Fornix. The peculiar appearance of the cerebellum or little brain presents a tree-like resemblance, once it is called arbor vitae, or the tree of life.

  This section has several interesting segment Senate that stood out to me as I read them. Plus it had a third that stood out to my wife. My wife wondered if the word convolutions meant the same thing as convulsions. “Is that even a word? Are they spelled the same she asked?”

  They are both words and both different words at that. For entertainment purposes I will provide you with my assumed definition even though I could be wrong. Maybe someone will take the light 90 years from now in interpreting my definition or perceived definition of these words.

  To me a convolutions is something that represents a folding or a complex structure such as the folds of the brain.

  Where as, in a a convulsion is a physical act as someone made a fall into when they are suffering from epilepsy or choking or some act of involuntary muscle control.

  I also found it somewhat entertaining to hear the author describes a noble mental faculties and references to the higher brain. This book was written before World War I and World War II where was publicly documented and historically written down for the record that the human brain has the capability to perform things that are far less than noble and definitely not intrinsic to our own thought processes. I suspect there’s also certain nonsecular references to the concept that a person is of a higher level of importance in the grand scheme of things. The connotations of this verbiage have much potential but its true intent is probably only something that we will build a speculate on going even further into the future.

• The Ribs
  
  

  The Ribs.– the ribs are twenty-four in number, arranged in pairs, well moneyed set in the chest.  At the back they are fastened to the spine, confront the seven upper pairs are tied by cartilages to the breast bone, three are fastened to each other in the cartilage above, and two, the floating ribs, are loose.  The long, slender ribs give lightness; their arched form confers strength, and the cartilages and parts of elasticity; thus the three most essential prerequisites of the chest for the protection of the delicate organs contained within this cavity are secured, whilst the freest motion in respiration is ensured.

  This section starts to get back to some of the vocabulary that is less known today.  Words such as “whilst” and “freest” sound like something out of a bad movie about pilgrims.  In general several other sentences in this section have what I would refer to as emotional connotations that are descriptive but are not necessarily accurate and definitely do not have the cold medical sound that you would expect in a text today.  In other words it doesn’t sound very scientific.

• Infectious Diseases from Impure Water
  
  

  Infectious Diseases from Impure Water. — the principal acute diseases which are due to impure water are cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhea and dysentery; and, although it is only within a comparatively recent. That mankind has begun to realize it’s dangerous from the source of these maladies, the accumulated evidence is already very conclusive.

  It is somewhat ironic, that 100 years ago water impurity was a serious issue.  The irony today is two fold.  The types of water impurities that many people around the world faced is no different than the water impurity challenges faced by many developing countries today.  However, instead of wiping out water impurities, we have complicated water impurity issues by contaminating water supplies and water tables with both chemicals from manufacturing processes as well as drugs from antibiotics to viagra that have been flushed away at levels that now present trace levels consumed from people and cattle alike.  Instead of improving our situation on Earth, we have made it more complex and possibly more contaminated. We don’t have the option to reset our water system memory and start all over again, and so we continue to struggle with a system that is gradually getting more dangerous for all of us.