Machinery of Digestion.-From the number and differently formed structures which constitute the digestive organs, it will be observed that the function is a very highly complex process. If the food were thrown directly into the circulating fluid, it could not be used for the purpose of nutrition. It requires for its transformation into blood, bone and muscle, a series of complex machinery, each part of which is specially designed for the particular part it plays in this wonderful and complicated process.
Use of Mouth and Teeth.- the mechanical part, which, although not shown in this chart, may be carefully studied in the chart giving the different views of the head, is performed by the mouth and teeth, and pulverized food is subject to the action of the saliva. The lubricated morsel of food is now gathered into a ball and conveyed to the back of the mouth by the muscles of the cheek and tongue. On its arrival here, the soft palate lifts upward and closes the posterior nasal openings; the epiglottis shuts down over the trachea or windpipe, forming a bridge over which the food passes, thus preventing it from falling into the respiratory tract.
For this section I don't really know to anything extraordinary, and I'm just going to move on to the next sections from here as we do have some interesting segments coming up shortly.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Second Use of Breathing
Second Use of Breathing. –Nor is the stupendousness all. Nature dislikes a waste of energy. In addition to and by a wise adaptation and economy, the process of respiration is made to sub serve a second use no less important than that of purifying the blood — the power of speech. The exhaled air, laden though it may be with the human detritus and off-scourings of the body, and passing through the vocal organs can be transformed into pairs of faith, songs of hope and words of good cheer, kindly encouragement and expressions of love!
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That section definitely fits into our bizarre grammar category. As I transcribed those words from the text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program really had to do some backflips. It definitely stumbled a few times on that one. there so many bizarre points of view and usages of grammar in that paragraph but I’m not sure where to begin.
I guess all start at the end. They jump into a weird peculiar and strange way of talking about the good things that people can say because they breathe air out of their lungs. Don’t blame mer if I say a curse word, blame the air I’m breathing out?
The author didn’t try to state that exactly, but they definitely used a bunch of mumbo-jumbo and so their real meaning or intention behind their words is probably lost to the ages.
- The Collar Bone
The Collar Bone. — The collar bone is fast and that one into the breast bone in the first drip, and at the other into a shoulder blade. It does holes the shoulder-joint out from the chest, eight in protecting the important vessels of the axilla, and gives the arm a greater range of freedom, mobility and play.
In this section I first noted that the word collar bone is used as two separate words as opposed to the compound word in use today, collarbone . You might also notice that the author regularly uses an excessive number of dashes in the text. Unfortunately on occasion I lose her drop some of these when my spell checker and dictation service gets confused by the excessive number of dashes.
- How to Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies
How to Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies.-flies breed by laying Lara by or eggs which can be seen as maggots in all undisturbed till. It requires eight days for the millions of eggs to grow. Keep garbage can tightly covered, protect by screen so that flies cannot reach the garbage. See the garbage is collected promptly and cleanly. If you live in the country, burned or bury it. Allowed no filth or decaying matter of any kind to accumulate in or near your premises. Keep stable clean, placed in Newark, old straw, etc., in screened pits, vault, or in boxes or barrels which should be well covered. Screen all previous, vault and openings to cesspools or drainage structures. See that they do not overflow and use chloride of lying freely. Pour kerosene into drains, keep drainage systems in good order and repair all leaks at once. Destroy sawdust custom doors, they are unsanitary. Clean custom doors daily and keep a 5% carbolic acid solution in them all the time. Permit no dirt to accumulate in corners, behind doors, back of radiators, under still owes, et cetera. If there is a nuisance in the neighborhood, notify the nearest health authority.
Well pouring kerosene into water drains these days would definitely be something that the EPA would have a problem with. But you can and must understand the naïve concepts if they had about protecting their homes and households from disease and other infectious things that could hurt them immediately and possibly have prevented them from seeing the long-term problems that might have come from contaminants going into water supply. They can see the cause-and-effect problems of disease, but they could oversee the cause-and-effect relating to contamination of other items such as kerosene mixing with water supplies. We are talking about serious issues keeping people healthy as opposed to coming up with tips on the best acne treatment for a teenager.