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:

• Pleura of the Lungs – Size/ shape/ weight of lungs
  
  

  Pleura of the Lungs. –in this chart we see also the pleura or the investing membrane of the lungs, and right below it the diaphragm or midriff.Two Distinct Lungs. –although the lungs are two in number, as far as their structure is concerned, and are perfectly distinct from each other, having, as we observe in the chart underneath this one, the heart and blood-vessels between them, yet as regards their functions they may be considered the same, since they received their blood from a single vessel, the pulmonary artery, and the air by one canal, the trachea or wind-pipe, and act in common with each other.

  Size and Shape of Lungs. –as will be observed, the lungs are not quite the same size or shape; the right lung, although somewhat shorter and thicker than the left, is the larger and stronger, being divided into three lobe; wills to the left is the smaller and weaker, divided into two lobes only, and hence more frequently subject to disease.

  Weight And Shape of Lungs. –the weight of the lungs varies very much; but in general they average about forty-two ounces in the male;thirty-six in the female; the right lung been about 2 ounces heavier than the left. Each lung is comical in shape, with a broad concave base resting on the convex surface of the midriff, the apex directed upward and extending into the root of the neck about 1 inch above the level of the first rib.

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  This section sounds much more scientific than the opening statement, it does have quite a few excessive examples of commas and even a few semicolons, but it doesn’t mention corsets, and it seems to stick to the facts or leased a description of the lungs in this particular case.

  A student studying medicine might learn something about the lungs from the section, although I suppose it probably was a practical thing to learn hundred years ago that corsets cause and strictures in the lungs. In fact it might have even been common knowledge although there may have been some sort of taboo against discussing such things and maybe it was only known by certain people. Therefore it might’ve been very practical to call that a medical book in case male readers or male doctors were somehow ignorant of the problems caused by corsets.

• The Spinal Column
  
  

  The Spinal Column.  — The spinal column, the lumbar portion of which is here seeing, consists of twenty-four bones, the which are placed pads of cartilage.  Such is the elasticity of these cushions of cartilage, that, though they become condensed to the day, making a shorter in the evening then in the morning, they resume their normal thickness while you’re lying in bed at night.  The perfection in the architecture of the spine surpasses belief; its various uses seem a bundle of contradictions.

  This section starts to sound more like the book we are familiar with.  There are several excessive uses of the coma and once again we start to encounter the authors love of the human body in a way that is less than scientific.  I suppose a hundred years ago there may have been a little bit more passion for science than there is today, or maybe my own perception in this regards as biased.  I seem to recall an anthropology professor back in college that was possibly as passionate about his topic is the author is about this topic.

• Lead Poison in Rural Districts
  
  

  Lead Poison in Rural Districts. — in rural districts, on the other hand, whenever Rainwater is used for drinking purposes, it is exceedingly liable to be contaminated with lead from lead lined cisterns, led service- or collection-pipes, lead ropes, or from the solder of tin roofs. As a rule, the purer the Rainwater, the greater is its action on lead with which it stands in contact; hence, therefore, the presence of a minute quantity of some salt of sulfuric acid and water is of very great importance, and serves as an invaluable protection against lead poisoning to the human beings and animals who may employ it for drinking purposes.

   

   

  There are many sources for lead poisoning, chief among them is typically lead based paints.  However, today people also run the risk of exposure to heavy metals through many batteries from all those devices that require Nickel Cadmium or Lithium Ion batteries.  We don’t always think about what is going into our environment when we’re putting more laptop memory in a computer or buying a spare battery, not to mention all the cell phone batteries churning through landfill dumps each year.