The Ovaries.-- The organs are situated contiguously to the womb. They signify eggs from their shape, and they are the parts which the male semen acts upon to produce the phenomenon of pregnancy. They are in large eye inflammation in their passage down the fallopian tubes, once a month during the middle. A female life, produces the condition familiarly known as menstruation. The plate also affords another view of the vagina.

And that is a pretty short paragraph to describe the process of reproduction. I believe it would be difficult to describe this process any more succinctly or with any less detail especially a medical textbook. It's with short descriptions like this, that I wonder how on the world the author ever manage to squeeze 1700 pages out of a medical textbook.

Sometimes I wonder if the short nondescriptive descriptions might have been more prevalent a hundred years ago and possibly super prevalent even further back. Maybe there was something lingering in the human psyche from the days when monks transcribed books by hand that led authors to avoiding words. If it wasn't for this author's ability to spot on with a lot of gibberish whenever he feels like it, I might suspect such a thing. The fact that the author did not use a lot of language here leads me to believe that the author was avoiding the topic.

If ancient authors and written descriptions about to sail from Europe to India across the ocean in a similar style, it is no wonder that Columbus ended up only making it half way there suffering through a number of endless caribbean cruises before making landfall.

My point is that as you go back in time and read writing that was written years and years and years ago different things seem important. Different subjective requirements come in to play in the writing and in the reading. The lack of objectivity leaves future readers at a loss for the detail that they need to make heads or tails out of text and information. It's an important example of why the objectivity is important in writing scientific information. The subject of writing is also important in the two can be balanced what they need to be labeled such that future readers will understand those items that were understood to be fact as opposed to those items that were still under speculation.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• The Famous London Pump – John Snow reference in Book of Medicine
  
  

  The Famous London Pump. — at any rate, the Broad Street pump had in London the reputation of furnishing, and it’s cold sparkling waters, a better medium for "the cup which cheers but does not inebriate," then was elsewhere to be found. When the cholera invaded this neighborhood the wealthy residents retired to the fashionable suburbs which were still uninfected; but, to the surprise of many, the cholera broke out among them with terrible severity. The health officers soon discovered, however, that those who were attacked had sent and every day to their favorite Broad Street pump for their water supply, and, by removing the pump handle, they quickly put an end to the epidemic.

  It’s interesting to note that this particular paragraph describes a rather famous historical incident that did occur in London and marked the discovery of cholera by John Snow, who was responsible for removing that pump handle, as well as plotting the progression of the disease as it broke out throughout London.

  The discussion and precautions offered throughout this section would have been as practical as a person offering advice today providing tips to buy car insurance online. In the west we do not hear about this disease as often as they did 100 years ago in America or Europe for that matter, but in the east and developing areas of the world that have not upgraded their water plants (or installed water plants and sewage treatment at all) this is still a very real issue.

• Video Health News from 6-19-07
  
  

  Every so often we are going to add in some video news highlights from that particular day relating to health and medicine.  I’m hoping to provide some contrasting perspective of modern health trends versus health trends from the 19th century.
• WATER IN ITS HYGENIC RELATIONS – THE USE OF WATER
  
  

  THE USES OF WATER.
  Adaptation of Water to Human Needs. Few people who enjoy the benefits of water think what a wonderful and unanswerable argument is afforded by them in favor of the goodness of an all-wise Creator to his creature, man. Of all the fluids with which we are acquainted water is by far the best adapted to the almost infinite variety of human wants, and it is the one of all others most abundant in nature, constituting as it does about three-fifths of the surface of our globe, and nearly seven-tenths of the bodies of man and of most animals. If the common fluid upon which we had to depend were quicksilver, or oil, its boiling-point would be so high that articles of food which we attempted to cook in it would be seriously injured in the effort to prepare them by its aid; and, on the other hand, nearly all the advantages of ice would fail us, in consequence of the exceedingly low temperature at which these substances remain fluid.

  This is the beginning of a new section book 3 and in this book they extensively cover the uses of water.  Its a resource that we often take for granted but its not as unimportant as say a tv stand or even a second pair of shoes.  Understanding how to protect and keep this resource safe was extremely important for every day life.