Quantity and Variety of Foods. -- as we have already seen, the human body consists of numerous mechanics or artisans, who are constantly at work repairing and upbuilding the unceasing destruction that is continually going on. If fresh food be not daily supplied, this work would soon cease, and the lamp of life flicker out. To replace this constant waste we required nearly 3 pounds of solid food, and fully 3 pounds of liquid food for our daily allowance. But to convert the pent-up energies of bread, meat and vegetables into the tissues of our own mechanism require a number of differently constructed organs, and these we now desire to draw your attention to this beautiful chart. The organs consist of the stomach, liver, pancreas and intestines, which comprise the principal organs concerned in the process of digestion.
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In 2007 I can hardly imagine what eating 3 pounds of food a day might be like, and I tend to eat a lot having a very high metabolism. For example I had two waffles for breakfast, two products on hot dog buns for supper and to bananas today. I think the total of all that food combined may have been a pound for pound and a half if you don't count the banana peels. To put it differently, I can't quite imagine eating six half pound cheeseburgers every day. Not to mention the half pound cheeseburgers that you get a fast food place like Wendy's, are weighed before they're cooked and not after. So a half pound cheeseburgers going to weigh less when you eat it because they took out some of the crease and fat, but probably not enough.
Drinking 3 pounds of liquid definitely caught my attention. There have been many references over the years to the US nutritional food pyramid. By many accounts the pyramid has been traced to some Washington, DC bureaucrat that came up with a concept that a person needs to drink eight glasses of water every day. To my knowledge, no one has come up with any scientific basis for why that Washington bureaucrat would chose an eight glasses as opposed to five or 10, or even just stating that a person should drink as often as they are thirsty. Now I'm curious to learn if 3 pounds of water equates to approximately 8 glasses of water. This book was published in 1916 and the food pyramid was was written up in the 1930s approximately 14 years later.
Is it possible that I found an early reference in this medical textbook that may have been the basis for that quackery prescribing eight glasses of water every day?
It definitely could be possible as this to tomb of a book was definitely reference material that I could envision a bureaucrat pulling off a shelf of the Library of Congress, what better book than the Library of Health to be found in the Library of Congress. I don't expect ultimately be accredited with finding the source for that quackery anymore than you or I expect to find a publisher's clearing House letter in our Mailboxes containing an actual check for $1 million.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- The Shoulder Joint
The Shoulder Joint. — The shoulder joint, formed as it is by the shoulder-blade (scapula), collarbone (clavicle), and the arm bone, is most beautifully designed and executed. It comprises a shallow ball and socket joint, the supporting the freest rotary movements. The shallowness of the socket, however, accounts for the frequent dislocations of this joint; but that is compensated for by the EC, graceful carriage and swaying of the arm, which is deeper socket would not permit.
As in the section titled, “The Ribs” this section utilizes the word “freest”, I’m assuming this word is some sort of combination of the word free and est, which probably refers to the most amount of freedom allowed or something of that nature. Today we probably use the words maximum range of motion or maximum freedom war something of that nature. We might even use the word freest!
Now, I’m not really a betting man. I like to play cards and Texas Hold ‘em especially, but I’d be willing to be that the word freest is not a real word anymore. I may not being hitting the poker tables anytime soon with other bets, but I’ll take that one any day of the week.
- Wonderful It All Is
Wonderful It All Is.–Wonderful! Within us is an Almighty Architect, who superintends a thousand skilled laborers, that make a way which puzzles human comprehension; theory fiber of muscle; they are a filament of nerve; here constructing a bone; they are uniting attendant — fashioning each with the most scrupulous care and unerring nicety. Without the buzz of a saw, or the sound of a hammer; without the slightest compression, or the least particle of boys; with a regularity, certainty and exactness, the glorious temple of man, in the image of his Creator, goes up and up, day by day, skilfully put together by these noiseless, tireless and expert workman.
First off it like to point out that this section utilizes the words “superintends” and it spells the words ’skilfully’ with one ‘l’ in skill. These two spelling items or word usages seem to be a good illustration of the change of spelling and vocabulary over a hundred years. I’ve read thousands of books never seen the word superintends in print before. I’ve never seen the word skillfully printed with one L. either.
Second, this section is definitely full of nonsecular references. It’s the closing paragraph of this particular section that was several pages long covering the digestive apparatus and its wonders. This section seems to have included more information about the wonders than the actual digestive apparatus, which would have been suitable for a Bible but not necessarily for a medical textbook.
Finally this section has a number of crazy references again which seems to capitalize on the last two or three sections that were full of gibberish that were put there for no apparent purpose whatsoever other than to fill pages with print.
- Quantity and Variety of Foods
Quantity and Variety of Foods. — as we have already seen, the human body consists of numerous mechanics or artisans, who are constantly at work repairing and upbuilding the unceasing destruction that is continually going on. If fresh food be not daily supplied, this work would soon cease, and the lamp of life flicker out. To replace this constant waste we required nearly 3 pounds of solid food, and fully 3 pounds of liquid food for our daily allowance. But to convert the pent-up energies of bread, meat and vegetables into the tissues of our own mechanism require a number of differently constructed organs, and these we now desire to draw your attention to this beautiful chart. The organs consist of the stomach, liver, pancreas and intestines, which comprise the principal organs concerned in the process of digestion.
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In 2007 I can hardly imagine what eating 3 pounds of food a day might be like, and I tend to eat a lot having a very high metabolism. For example I had two waffles for breakfast, two products on hot dog buns for supper and to bananas today. I think the total of all that food combined may have been a pound for pound and a half if you don’t count the banana peels. To put it differently, I can’t quite imagine eating six half pound cheeseburgers every day. Not to mention the half pound cheeseburgers that you get a fast food place like Wendy’s, are weighed before they’re cooked and not after. So a half pound cheeseburgers going to weigh less when you eat it because they took out some of the crease and fat, but probably not enough.
Drinking 3 pounds of liquid definitely caught my attention. There have been many references over the years to the US nutritional food pyramid. By many accounts the pyramid has been traced to some Washington, DC bureaucrat that came up with a concept that a person needs to drink eight glasses of water every day. To my knowledge, no one has come up with any scientific basis for why that Washington bureaucrat would chose an eight glasses as opposed to five or 10, or even just stating that a person should drink as often as they are thirsty. Now I’m curious to learn if 3 pounds of water equates to approximately 8 glasses of water. This book was published in 1916 and the food pyramid was was written up in the 1930s approximately 14 years later.
Is it possible that I found an early reference in this medical textbook that may have been the basis for that quackery prescribing eight glasses of water every day?
It definitely could be possible as this to tomb of a book was definitely reference material that I could envision a bureaucrat pulling off a shelf of the Library of Congress, what better book than the Library of Health to be found in the Library of Congress. I don’t expect ultimately be accredited with finding the source for that quackery anymore than you or I expect to find a publisher’s clearing House letter in our Mailboxes containing an actual check for $1 million.