Work of the Heart.  –no slave ever performed his work more patiently than the heart.  It’s quivering task is essential to life and health.  It is the fountain from whence the spirit flows, and on the faithful performance of its functions every part of the body depends for the warm stream of life, motion and vigor which it unstintingly furnishes.  The ancients believed the heart to be the seat of love.  Within its walls were located all that was pure, true, good and noble, as well as the evil passions of the soul.  And although modern scientist on the seat of mind, reason, consciousness and the mental powers be located in the brain, and does rob the heart of its romance, yet it has revealed wonder is connected with the small organ, that certainly it clips the mysteries associated with it in the past. Pit-a-Pat! pit-a-pat! drops this marvelous engine, and in response to its constant dropping the blood bounce along the myriad of tubes, conveying messages of life and health.

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There’s a little bit of irony in this particular section.  The author is reviewing the ancients perception of what the heart did, and I’m reviewing what the authors.the heart did a hundred years ago.  The irony is probably compounded by the fact that I’m a layman and know very little about medicine in the authors were probably fairly informed about medicine in their day, however many of the things that they describe seem ludicrous to me just like some of the things they thought the ancients describe probably seem ludicrous to them.  I can’t wait for generations in the future to come along and find the ludicrous things that I’ve created!