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:
- A Picture of Good Health
Note, This is the opening section of the first chapter of the first book.
The following Opening lines precede the segment:
A Description of the Colored Anatomical Charts Composing the Manikin Accompanying this Work.
We now proceed with what the book refers to his chart 1, however this would normally reference a chapter 1 I believe today.
A PICTURE OF GOOD HEALTH
This exquisitely beautiful and artistic anatomical late presents the head and face of a young man in the enjoyment of perfect health. Apart from the subject it’s so accurately and faithfully represents, it is in itself a viable life-like portraiture of the human head and face, and shows to what perfection the art of anatomical plate printing has attained. Note the prominent perceptive faculties, the high four head, features characteristic of a large brain and a massive and unimpaired intellect. Mark the open expression of the eye! How true to nature and life — like. Observe the compressed lips, denoting firmness of character and determination of purpose. Look at tentatively at the bright, open, manly countenance; there are no signs of mental decrepitude, physical bodily infirmities, nervous fear, or exhaustion of brainpower or life — force in the expression of the noble, ruddy and healthy face. It is, as its name implies, typical of Perfect Health!
Now you might ask, “What in the world is as book referring to at this point?”
The answer is what I can only refer to as a pop out picture on page 37.
- Machinery of Digestion
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.
- What to do to Ret Rid of Flies
What to do to Ret Rid of Flies.-Screen your windows and doors. Do it early in the spring before flight time and keep it up until cold weather calms. Screen all food, especially milk. Do not eat food that has been in contact with flies. Screen the baby’s bed and keep flies away from the baby’s bottle, nickel and food, rattle, toys, etc. Keep flies away from the sick, especially those ill with typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and tuberculosis, etc. Screen the patient’s bed. Kill every fly seem to enter the sick room. Disinfect all discharges, dressings, bandages, etc., from the patient and burn where possible catch all flies by use of sticky flypaper, traps and liquid poisons. A good poison to destroy flies is Tuesday is too steep is two teaspoonfuls from outside a pint of water sweetened with sugar and placed him saucers throughout the house. Be sure and have poisonous be sure and have poisons out of reach of children and family pet. To read an infected house of flies, burning each room I read from powder. Darken the room allowing only ray of light to enter at edge of window shades. Sprinkle I read from powder over hot coals and Kerry about Rome. The flies will be stunned by the fumes and can be readily swept up. This is done because the flies will seek the light to escape the fumes enfold near the windows. Swat a fly whenever seen. It cattle can easily be made to kill the flies with by taking an oblong sheet of water draws and mailing it to a stick of suitable link for handle.
I do not know what I read from as but I would suggest that the concept of shutting the shades and just leaving the crack of light to attract the insects to light it is a smart concept for trying to then have a an easy target and today in a world where we can easily go buy a plastic flyswatter mass-produced somewhere it’s kind of interesting to consider how he might go about making a flyswatter from scratch with water draws mailing it to a stick. Today, we might worry about how to get our bathroom faucets spotless, because we have progressed past the point where we have to worry about flies.