Size, Shape and Location of the Heart.  --In this beautiful anatomical chart we obtain an accurate idea of the relative size, shape and position of that wonderful engine, the heart, his tireless efforts to keep the wheels of life and motion are truly surprising, and fill us with amazement at the prodigious work at daily performs.  The heart is in your regular, pear-shaped hollow, muscular organ, placed obliquely in the lower in front part of the chest, between the two lungs and inclining to the left of the centre. the bases directed toward the spine and corresponds with the fourth and fifth dorsal spine bone, while the apex points between the cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs on the left side.  In this illustration the pericardium, or loose sac in which the heart is enclosed, is removed and we see the coronary artery with its branches distributed over the outer surface of the complex and restless organ.

This section wasn't written to poorly, or maybe a better way to say this is that it seems to stood the test of time fairly well.  Second sentence got a little bit wordy and again I would suspect a paid by the word contract, but in general this was fairly descriptive and fairly on point.  You might notice the spelling of the word centre spelled with an 're' as opposed to an 'er' I suspect that may be one of those variations in spelling that have occurred over the centuries. Otherwise it was fairly tame.  The chart that they're referring to his Chart 2 by the way.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• The Crab Lice
  
  

  The Crab Lice.—These are a smaller type of the former species, as head or body lice. They are nearly as wide as long. They have strong legs spread out on the sides of the body, which makes them appear like crabs. They are of whitish color, slightly shaded on the shoulders and legs with a red tinge. Crab lice are found upon the hairy regions of the body other than the scalp. The spread of these pests can be checked by washing all toilet seats with scalding water, and boiling towels and linen from suspected persons. Laundries should be especially careful as to the thorough boiling and disinfection of all clothing, as the eggs of these parasites can be conveyed in bed-clothing, towels, etc.

  TREATMENT.–Shave the hair in the region of the itching and wash twice a day with a lotion made of

  Tincture of Larkspur…………1/2 ounce

  Commercial Ether ……….. 8 ounces

   

   WARNING  This treatment recommendation is over 100 years old.  We do not recommend it nor know how effective or safe it might be.  If you are cleaning clothing or Delsey luggage or something, use at your own risk, but if you try this stuff on your self, we think you are probably crazy.

• What to do to Ret Rid of Flies
  
  

  What to do to Ret Rid of Flies.-Screen your windows and doors.  Do it early in the spring before flight time and keep it up until cold weather calms.  Screen all food, especially milk.  Do not eat food that has been in contact with flies.  Screen the baby’s bed and keep flies away from the baby’s bottle, nickel and food, rattle, toys, etc.  Keep flies away from the sick, especially those ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and tuberculosis, etc.  Screen the patient’s bed.  Kill every fly seem to enter the sick room.  Disinfect all discharges, dressings, bandages, etc., from the patient and burn where possible catch all flies by use of sticky flypaper, traps and liquid poisons.  A good poison to destroy flies is Tuesday is too steep is two teaspoonfuls from outside a pint of water sweetened with sugar and placed him saucers throughout the house.  Be sure and have poisonous be sure and have poisons out of reach of children and family pet.  To read an infected house of flies, burning each room I read from powder.  Darken the room allowing only ray of light to enter at edge of window shades.  Sprinkle I read from powder over hot coals and Kerry about Rome.  The flies will be stunned by the fumes and can be readily swept up.  This is done because the flies will seek the light to escape the fumes enfold near the windows.  Swat a fly whenever seen.  It cattle can easily be made to kill the flies with by taking an oblong sheet of water draws and mailing it to a stick of suitable link for handle.

  I do not know what I read from as but I would suggest that the concept of shutting the shades and just leaving the crack of light to attract the insects to light it is a smart concept for trying to then have a an easy target and today in a world where we can easily go buy a plastic flyswatter mass-produced somewhere it’s kind of interesting to consider how he might go about making a flyswatter from scratch with water draws mailing it to a stick.    Today, we might worry about how to get our bathroom faucets spotless, because we have progressed past the point where we have to worry about flies.

• Chart 1
  
  

  Here are several images captured with a digital camera covering Chart 1.