So I am on a road trip this weekend, and I'm heading to St. Louis from the Atlanta area. I'm using voice recognition software to write this article, and I don't really have access to the book of medicine while driving.
Voice recognition allows me to write articles with a hands-free headset and so basically I can have a conversation with myself and it appears as an article to you!
I've seen a few dozen or a least a half dozen, I may be exaggerating, fender bender's on the interstate today including one vehicle fire which was pretty massive. It did appear that everyone was okay. There are a lot of carpet, textile, and home lighting stores and warehouses on this section of I75 leaving Atlanta.
Regardless the damage to vehicles was definitely done and there are going to be a lot of people heading up to body supply shops for new auto parts.
So I'm getting ready to head up the mountains or head up into the mountains as I leave Chattanooga behind and head towards Nashville on Interstate 24. It is a stretch of 24 where you wind your way up and around a great big mountain, your ears start popping, and the temperature drops a couple degrees, if you're lucky (in the summer).
Then you go rapidly downhill on the other side ears popping again all the way. It's a beautiful part of the country and I mention that here in this blog because I do believe it's important for your health to live in beautiful areas. Beauty will not keep you from getting sick and beauty won't necessarily make you better, but I do feel that it can lift your spirits up. When you are thinking positively and feeling positively you have a better chance of recuperating and healing. I haven't seen anything like that in the book of medicine yet, but I suspect that they'll cover this as the book is not always scientific and often takes moral tones.
Regardless I hope you are having a good weekend or had a good weekend and I'll have more articles straight from the book of medicine soon.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Rain-Water
VARIETIES OF WATER.
Rain-Water. — in classifying waters, we have first to consider them as regards their sources. Rain-water, as already mentioned, is sweet and soft, and when filtered is perfectly adapted to all the purposes of life; the one difficulty about its use being the impossibility of collecting the cure and preserving it without contamination for the long periods of time and in the large quantities which would often be necessary.
That is a relatively poor description for a classification of anything. The author mentions that we should consider the source, and then promptly this drives how Rainwater tastes and what can and can’t be done with it in a very vague and general way. So with that worthless description we proceed to the next section where the author will probably talk about wind chimes or something completely unrelated to the topic at hand.
- The Contaminated Ice Pond
The Contaminated Ice Pond. — both the house in which the ice was stored in the water from the melted ice gave off a decidedly disagreeable or even offensive odor. Finally, a visited upon from which the ice and then gathered disclose the fact that much of the water and it was dark colored, file and highly contaminated with filthy marsh mud and decomposing sawdust. Chemical analysis showed that both it and the suspected eyes contain a large excess of organic and volatile impurities, including four one hundredths of a grain per gallon of albuminoid ammonia.
- THE CLITORIS, URETHRA, VAGINA AND HYMEN.
These female organs show further at the perfection which anatomical plate printing has attained.
Clitoris.—This small organ, it will be seen, is situated at the upper part of the Volvo, or outside parts of the female generative system, it is usually concealed by the lips of the pudenda. It performs a function during sexual intercourse similar to that performed by the penis of the male.
Urethra.–This highly useful organ, common to both sexes, is, as will be seen by the plate, now, or medium, by means of which the urine is carried from the bladder to be voided. It is a delicately lined organ, furnished with retentive valves, and therefore susceptible to a variety of diseases.
Vagina.–This word implies a chief, and is applied to the can out which leads from the uterus (womb) to the external organs of generation in the female sex. Commonly, it implies such external organs, or organ, as depicted in the plate.
Hymen.–The mucous membrane, or virginal membrane, at the entrance of the female sexual organ, or vagina.
In general the author skips through the section very rapidly in a no-nonsense business or away. There is no alliteration, and no religious references. That is not surprising as this was written just after the turn of the century when discussions of these particular topics are not carried out in public and rarely between men and women in public, let alone in a book designed to teach both men and women. Keep in mind, that this book came out 40 to 50 years before the Kinsey studies and books on sexual practices were done and written about. Medicine and Society at a long way to go from this point in time when this section was written.