Great Value and Beauty of the Plate.--We can understand much of this wonderful process. We have looked into the stomach, watched its peculiar actions and traced its various steps, from which the scientist is capable, in his laboratory of knives, mortars, baths, chemicals and filters, of imitating many of the operations of digestion; but just at the moment he thinks himself most successful, he is compelled to pause. At the threshold of that "one step more," which Fontenelle required, "and he would surprise nature herself," he stops, and very wisely, without concealment of his designs, admires, then wonders, and finally worships with all the reverence of his soul.
After reading that diatribe, I have to honestly say I have no idea what the author is talking about. The other seems beyond some strange sort of rant about science, scientists in the digestive system. Unfortunately he's ranting on a bunch of nonsense almost sound like he's talking about Frankenstein's monster. One things for sure I'm glad that I didn't take a class instructed by this writer. If this book is that hard to understand from sheer gibberish, I can just imagine what'll lecture would be like.
I don't think this has so much to do with the difference in the decades of the century even. This seems to be more of an issue of an author suffering from the ability to provide a clear thought and written format. It's almost like listening to Charlie Brown's teacher lecture on real estate over the telephone in a Peanuts cartoon.
WAh wah wah wah , wu wah . . . .
This entry seems to reaffirm my belief that this author got paid by the word and not by the concept of thought.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Blood-vessels of the Liver
Blood-vessels of the Liver. –. The blood-vessels of the liver are the hepatic artery and veins, and the portal vein; the lymphatic vessels are numerous, and the nerves are supplied from the pneumogastric, the phrenic and the hepatic plexus. The liver, therefore, receives two kinds of blood: the arterial, by means of the hepatic artery, and the venous, from the portal vein, from which the bile is principally formed. The bile is a dark golden fluid, of extremely bitter taste, of which 3 pounds is secreted daily. When not used in digestion is stored away in the gall-bladder; a fine view of the location of which we have in this chart, the action of the bile on food, but not fully understood, is necessary for perfect digestion.
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Again there is a reference to 3 pounds daily. So now I’m wondering if the 3 pounds of bile that our bodies are supposedly creating everyday is related to the 3 pounds of food or 3 pounds of liquid that were supposed to be consuming. Maybe it’s half-and-half, 1 1/2 pounds of food and one half pounds of water generate 3 pounds of bile secreted from our liver.
I wouldn’t bet your vacation home Orlando on it. I’m also curious as to whether or not the author actually tasted bile from a liver. In many ways I’m glad I was not a scientist a hundred or 200 years ago. . . .
- 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.
- Virulence of Lead Poison
Virulence of Lead Poison. — in the celebrated case of the accidental poisoning of the ex-royal family of France, a Claremont, by lead which was taken up in the drinking water, the amount was found not to exceed one grain of metal to the gallon of water. From cases which have since been observed, it would appear that the habitual use of water containing 1/10 or even 1/20 of a grain per gallon, is sometimes attended with danger. In his investigation into the cause of that curious disease, as it was formerly considered, the Devonshire colic, Sir George Baker, who discovered that it was only a form of lead poisoning due to the drinking of cider fermented in lead lined vats and troughs, found that 18 bottles of cider he examined contained four and a half grains of lead, or a quarter of a grain to each bottle.
The poisoning of the French aristocracy may not have originated in France. Some researches believe that lead lined vats may have played a contributing role in the decline of the Roman empire.
Well-to-do Romans painted their walls a rich Pompeian red, which owed its color to a salt of lead or mercury. Lead was used for water pipes, cups, toys, statues, cosmetics, coffins, and roofs, but the most significant source may have been the wine of the wealthy class.S. Columba Gilfillan proposed a theory for Roman decay in 1965 that involved "poisons esteemed as delicious by the ancient well-to-do." Spoilage was a problem in ancient Rome, and vintners discovered that wine tasted better and lasted longer if it was mixed with a concentrated grape syrup called sapa.
Some enterprising Roman probably started up a nice home business making wine ‘taste better’ and in so doing brought about the wasting of the upper class and the possible downfall of Rome as a whole.