The Pyloric Gate.  -- At the smaller end the muscular fibers contract and form a gateway -- the pylorus, as it is called -- which carefully guards the exit from the stomach, and allows no food to escape until properly prepared.  The gastric blood vessels are seeing distributing themselves over the outer surface of the organ, thus ensuring its nutrition and repair.

The Liver.  -- The liver is the secreting organ by which the bile is formed.  It is situated on the right side below the diaphragm, and is of a reddish-brown color.  It is a regular in form, being convex on the upper surface, irregularly concave behind, very thin in front, and weighs about 4 pounds.  It is, therefore, seen to be the largest organ or gland in the body.  It is divided into two lobes, the right and the left, the former being by far the larger.  I'm turning the flap over, we see how intricately is arranged internally.

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It's strange but there are only a few sections like this one where there are no bizarre items to report or identify.  It's kind of a nice change of pace when the medical textbook reverts back to being a medical textbook. :-)

I'm sure some strange topic will come up to catch my attention soon and it's not like topics today in real life don't sometimes appear a little out of the ordinary.  I recently covered a reference to something known as tranquility diapers, which I believe is some reference to the peace of mind that a person suffering from incontinence, or IBD might experience after they utilize this particular product and start to live a more normalized life again. 

In many ways it's all a matter of perspective, my perspective of this old textbook is skewed significantly from the perspective of the initial writers and editors.  Like calculus problem I'm studying the derivative.  In this case the derivative can be measured by the span of time and change in knowledge .

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• THE PUBLIC DRINKING CUP.
  
  

  THE PUBLIC DRINKING CUP.

  The drinking cup is a common carrier of disease. It can and does spread consumption, syphilis and typhoid fever. Any child or adult suffering from tonsilitis, diphtheria, scarlet fever or other communicable diseases can infect another by using a public tumbler or cup, whether at a public railroad station, school house, ball park, pump, railroad train, ferry boat or steamship of any kind, etc.

  The most of the State Boards of Health have had laws passed in recent years to abolish the public drinking cup and those states which have not done so are neglecting the public health by not enforcing this preventive measure, which would aid iu checking the spread of disease.
  The drinking cup should be replaced by a sterile paper cup which can be purchased in sealed packages or containers and are given away free of charge in trains, etc., and can be purchased for one penny from the slot machines in stations. They are destroyed after use and a more refreshing and sanitary drink is obtained and the danger of contracting disease eliminated. The Public Drinking Cup Must Go.

  The concept of a Public Drinking cup is extremely foreign to many of us in the US today.  In fact it is often difficult in this age of dishwashing machines to even get a person to use the same cup themselves more than once.  We live in an era where drinking out of a fresh drinking bottle or soda bottle or coffee cup is the norm and not the exception.  We can hardly conceive of going on Vegas vacations or trips to Disney World or even a trip to Wal-mart or McDonalds or wherevere and entering into a casino or ’saloon’ or restaraunt and drinking out of the same cup that hundreds or even thousands of others had utilized before us.

• The Veins
  
  

  The Veins.–The venal arteries are derived direct from the aorta; and the large veins terminate in the ascending large vein. On the right kidney is seeing the super-renal capsule; whilst the left is cut vertically into showing the uriniferous tubes, much convoluted and inosculating with each other.  The ureter is seen arising from the pelvis of the kidney, descending in an oblique manner to the bladder.  These wonderful little organs appear to act as filters, and thus assist to keep the vital stream of life and as pure and as healthy a condition as possible.

  The Bladder.–The bladder is a thin, membranous bag, which serves as he receiver of the year and secreted by the kidneys, and which remains there until voided by your nation through the urethra.

  Bone Sections.– the sections of the bones show their cancellated appearance, which combines lightness with strength.

   

  As I was putting together the section and transcribing it from the book, the translation software had quit the difficulty with several of the words in this section.  Uriniferous actually stood out as eight extra troubling word.

• Diet Pill Support Groups
  
  

  Here is an interesting concept.  You have probably heard of weight watchers which brings people together in a support group like setting and teaches them to assign points to the food they eat.

  The PhenForum is a support group for women that use Phentermine diet pills.  They can come together and share their views and lessons learned about dieting, losing weight and diet pills. 

  Unlike Weight Watchers that is one part support and one part dietary education, the PhenForum mixes support group methods with the power of diet drugs.  Many times people receive a prescription for a long term drug and do not get to share notes with other patients.  They are completely at the mercy of their doctor.

  That’s not entirely bad, but sometimes it helps to see how the drug is impacting, helping or hurting other people.  In this regard the PhenForum provides a useful social setting where people taking this prescription drug can share knowledge about their conditions as well as the drugs they are taking to alleviate that condition and lose weight.