I am working to catch up on some of my projects today, especially my writing. I've been working literally night and day on several different web related projects and my hobby here at history of the book of medicine has taken a little to the backseat. I've been helping several new bloggers get their blogs up and running, and I've been helping several clients initiate professional blogs, with a website and a shopping cart. More importantly I've been working on several of my own business endeavors that help to fund my efforts here so I can spend the time cataloging the history of medicine is was taught a hundred years ago. I'm also in the middle of a relocation from the Atlanta area to the Charlotte, North Carolina area and so I've been moving back and forth throughout all this preparing the new home and preparing to leave the old home. In part this means that I have to setup and breakdown my office almost every day moving from one desk or location to the next. One day I might find myself sitting on a couch and working, laptop and lap, and another day I might be sitting down to Kinko's in front of a row of modern desks or even sitting on the dock by the lake underneath a ceiling fan watching the dogs chase after insects and each other.
I noticed this week as google went through their update that our website here, got knocked down a peg or two and that doesn't bother me terribly much. I have not been promoting this website terribly hard, as this truly is a hobby and not so much a business, that said it was a good reminder that I need to network more with other websites that might have a similar aim or focus or even some that are tangentially related.
So if you have a medical related blog, and medical history blog or even alternative medicine blog or website, please leave me a comment I'd like to review possibly exchanging links and building up better network. (Please no spamming comments, we can exchange more details off-line if necessary.)
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.
- Various Uses of the Hand
Various uses of the hand. — with the hand we affirm or reject the proposition with more force than with the tongue. It is the first to greet, and the last to bid our friends goodbye. We use it to express our joy and pleasure, or to give vent to our fear and horror. In the hour of peril we employ it in powerful supplication to Him to whom we look for succor and help, and it adds force and power to the appeals of suffering, of sorrow and of woe. It bestows its loving caresses on the Downey cheek of the baby, invokes the blessings of Heaven, pleads for mercy, or hurls curses on our enemies. Indeed, we do not always seem to realize how many notes in the tune of human life a hand of man is made to play. Its beauties, it’s perfect at its ability, it varied endowments, and the different uses to which it is applied, are almost beyond our thoughts, and he was deprived of this useful member sustained a loss that none can estimate, nor the wealth of Croesus compensate.
The Croesus reference relates to a very rich king that lived around the 500 BC period in what is today modern day Turkey. The reference of course is one that indicates that some things when lost can not be made up for with money at any level. You can repair some injuries, you can even compensate for others such as a drug addiction by attending drug rehabs.
- The common fly (Musca domestica)
The common fly (Musca domestica).- the only way to prevent the flight curing diseases to destroy history in place, keep them out of the home, etc., when developed, by screens and swat or catch by flypaper, etc., everyone seen in a room.
Houseflies are a danger to human life. Airborne filth, feed upon garbage, sewage waste matter of all kinds. They carry germs on the pro-business of their bodies, and a single flaw is known to have carried as many as 350,000 germs and given them off into the liquid food in which it was floating. They also carry numerous germs inside their bodies which they convey to food, etc., and their vomit and all matter.
Flies can carry disease germs of typhoid fever, consumption, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases from a sufferer to you. They come in contact with your food, milk, water, etc., you’re sleeping child, or a light on an open wound, direct from the garbage can, because the door, this bit industry, etc., from decaying animal and vegetable matter and from the sick room. Thus every individual should do everything possible to aid the physician, city and state and destroy these known carriers of filth and disease and thereby prevent sickness, due to carelessness and indifference by permitting flies to breathe and live.
If you consider the tone of this particular section, you would think that the housefly was the Swiss Army knife of disease carriers in the Western world. In fact today we understand their purpose and the world a little bit better, but that doesn’t mean that they should be entirely permitted to run amok. Typically the presence as a result of some other item that has started to decay in the area and attracted flies. The presence of this item sometimes can be more dangerous than the flight itself, but the fly can definitely spread that around once the process is started. In their defense there are some practical uses for utilizing flies or even sterile I’ll maggots to help clean items from time to time.