Wonderful It All Is.--Wonderful! Within us is an Almighty Architect, who superintends a thousand skilled laborers, that make a way which puzzles human comprehension; theory fiber of muscle; they are a filament of nerve; here constructing a bone; they are uniting attendant -- fashioning each with the most scrupulous care and unerring nicety. Without the buzz of a saw, or the sound of a hammer; without the slightest compression, or the least particle of boys; with a regularity, certainty and exactness, the glorious temple of man, in the image of his Creator, goes up and up, day by day, skilfully put together by these noiseless, tireless and expert workman.
First off it like to point out that this section utilizes the words "superintends" and it spells the words 'skilfully' with one 'l' in skill. These two spelling items or word usages seem to be a good illustration of the change of spelling and vocabulary over a hundred years. I've read thousands of books never seen the word superintends in print before. I've never seen the word skillfully printed with one L. either.
Second, this section is definitely full of nonsecular references. It's the closing paragraph of this particular section that was several pages long covering the digestive apparatus and its wonders. This section seems to have included more information about the wonders than the actual digestive apparatus, which would have been suitable for a Bible but not necessarily for a medical textbook.
Finally this section has a number of crazy references again which seems to capitalize on the last two or three sections that were full of gibberish that were put there for no apparent purpose whatsoever other than to fill pages with print.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- 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.
- Man the Most Complex Body
Man the Most Complex Body.– it embodies in the epitome of the whole universe! Man is more elaborate, more complex, more God-like, than any other living organism; more wonderful, more beautiful, more marvelous, that any work of human ingenuity, conception or construction.
Indeed, the mechanism, the skill and the workmanship displayed in the human body is simply perfection itself. In conception, it is divine; and design, perfect; in architecture, grand; in construction, wonderful; and beauty, lovely; inform, symmetrical; an outline, sublime; in strength, great; and arrangements, marvelous; and mobility, transcendent; and adaptability, unexcelled; in fine, when studied in all its parts and their relationship to each other, we are led to exclaim with the Psalmist David, that the human body is “fearfully and wonderfully made.”This paragraph was excruciatingly interesting for its use of commas and semicolons. I’m using a dictation device to record this and I thought I was going to go nuts with the alterations from commas to semicolons and back again!
This particular section precedes and follows chart to which provides a diagram of the human torso absent skin, it’s a flip open picture that provides a great deal of detail of the internal organs of the human torso. Part of me wonders if all of this exceptional description and praise of the beauty of the human body is used in part to show the purest intent of the author does not be sacrilegious or possibly vulgar and providing pictures of human body. I see this in part because last I was watching CNN and date pretrade apportion a segment on a doctor in Egypt. This particular doctor is a woman and she is a sexologist and a Muslim and the first-ever talkshow host on Muslim television that talks about sex. She is sometimes labeled the Dr. Ruth of the Islamic world.
As I was reading the section I was thinking of that CNN segment with her and wondering if she had to utilize similar praises and religious associations so as to not to offend her audience anymore than she already is just by the act of what she’s doing and the perception of the taboo and possibly stigmas that are associated with what she is doing.
In addition this paragraph also had a religious reference which I have no idea what it means, and frankly this evening I don’t have the gear acid you to figure it out I’m sure there will be many more to explore later on in the book. - To Get Rid of Fleas
To Get Rid of Fleas.—Remove and clean rugs, etc. Dust Pyrethrum powder into all cracks and crevices where dust or dirt may be lodged to destroy the larvæ. Scrub the floor and footboards with hot soap and water to kill the adult fleas. To eliminate fleas on cats or dogs, dust Pyrethrum powder into the hair. The fleas will fall off while stupefied and should be immediately swept up and burned. Sleeping places of dogs and cats should be cleaned and covered with a carpet or matting that can be shaken into an open fire and the eggs, larvæ and fleas with which it is generally covered, destroyed.
A look at a common flea. Fleas have historically been much more problematic for humans. today they cause small problems with pets, but in years past they were more problematic with pests, or even livestock. Today, even our pets cozy in warm houses covered in vinyl siding bathed in flea dip popping flea pills once a month are more protected from fleas.
During an epidemic of Bubonic Plague destroy all rats, mice, stray dogs and cats, etc., and protect your house by killing all fleas whether in the furnishings or on your family pets. Flea bites are painful and if scratched may cause an abscess, followed by blood poisoning. The pain and itching of a flea bite can be counter-acted by touching the wound with ammonia water. To prevent infection, bathe the wound with a 5 per cent. solution of carbolic acid in water and bandage until healed.
