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._________________ 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!
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- The Head Lice – Treatment
The Head Lice.—They are grayish in color with blackish margins and show a reddish tinge due to the blood they have sucked from their victim. The eggs or nits are seen attached to the hair shafts on the scalp at some distance from the end of the hair and are tiny white or grayish pear-shaped bodies seen upon close examination.
The treatment today, 100 years after this treatment was written in the Book of Medicine, things are not a great deal easier. Its not like a person can even brush their hair with some sort of device that would zap head lice like air can be purified with an IQAir filter. TREATMENT.-It is necessary to remove eggs and adults at the same time, so wet the hair thoroughly with crude petroleum (from any drug store) keep hair wet for three hours, then wash whole head with warm water and soap. Repeat this wash once a day for three successive days. The eggs can then be removed by combing the hair with a fine tooth comb wet with vinegar. Where possible the treatment can be made more thorough and permanent if the hair is cut short.
- Wonders of Sight, Hearing, Touch and Locomotion
Next we will start to explore Chart III. This is a relatively short section and it will conclude book 1 on the Human body.
Just to give you a little hint of what is to come, each section here seems to kick off with the description of “something” and Its Wonders.
Example
The Eye and Its Wonders
The Ear and Its Wonders
The Hand its Mechanisms and its Wonderful Endowments
I’m not making that up. You’ll see . . .
- The Eardrum
The Eardrum.-on the back of this flap is seeing a strikingly natural representation of the middle ear, the tympanum or drum, as it is frequently called. For the bottom of the tympanum is observed the Eustachian tube, through which is conveyed air from the pharynx to the middle ear. Across this chamber is seen stretched three very tiny, Cingular phones, which, from their shape, or called a hammer, the ample and the states. These delicate bones are connected together, one by ball and socket joint, the other by a hinge joint and by ligaments, and are moved by small muscles; they serve to convey the wave sounds across the tympanum cavity to the internal a year.
There is that crazy word again, tympanum. In architecture, I believe that refers to an arch or an arch system. I have a feeling the author looked it up and couldn’t stop using it, like some desperately needing addiction treatment repeats a phrase over and over again without any rhyme nor reason.
