Intercostal Arteries.--the intercostal arteries and veins are beautifully illustrated in the chart.  The veins return the blood to the heart.  The large ascending and descending venae cavae are seen in this illustration.

Meaning of artery.--from the fact that death arteries are empty, the ancients believed in to contain air, whence their name, derived from aer, air, and terco, I keep, which literally means, air ducts.

The Spleen.-- the spleen is a spongy organ, of a living color, oval in figure and situated in the left upper part of the abdomen and immediately behind the stomach.  It's weight very from four to 10 ounces.  It is largely composed of cells, but it's function is little understood, though from its position is believed to be in some way useful to the stomach during the process of digestion.

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We are moving rapidfire through the section and were just about ready to come up on the next section of charts, chart 3.  Shortly after chart 3 we will then hit two of the book of medicine and we will move into anatomy and physiology.

So sit back, if you've got any questions stop by our reception desks and ask her receptionist in the meantime enjoy our translation of the book of medicine.

As to the known purpose of the spleen today (according to Ask Yahoo! the definitive answer on everything and nothing at all)

• filtering out foreign organisms that infect your blood
• removing your old or damaged platelets and red blood cells
• storing extra blood and releasing it as needed
• forming some types of white blood cells

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Why the Library of Health?
  
  

  Archaelogical Journey into a Medical Text

  Close to 10 years ago I purchased an antique book at an auction,is about 6 inches thick it’s bound in green leather, and it’s titled library of health on the outside book cover. Inside the book its title library of health space complete guide to prevention and cure of disease. It’s said to contain practical information on

  anatomy, physiology and preventive medicine; curative medicine, first aid measures, diagnosis, nursing, sexology, simple home remedies, care of the teeth, occupational diseases, garden plant remedies, alcohol and narcotics, treatment by 15 schools of medicine, beauty culture, physical culture, the science of breathing and a dictionary of drugs.

  The book contains 21 books in one volume.

  I love old books, I love all books. There’s something about this book caught my eye that I couldn’t explain of the time. I picked it up and it’s been sitting in my library for years. Now I also love history and archaeology and over the last couple of months I’ve been coming up with the notion that I wanted to delve into this book from the perspective of an archaeologist studying what medical teachers or teaching future doctors a hundred years ago. His book was published in 1916 and it’s almost 100 years old I believe the first of the books from this set was originally published in 1860. The book is now in the public domain as it was published before 1923.

  I intend to proceed to go through the book and eventually cover many of the topics covered in the book from the perspective of looking at what was considered medical science at the turn of the century. I am not a doctor and I cannot verify the medical accuracy today of any of the items in this book nor do I recommend anyone use the items in this book for any form of cure or treatment.

  The purpose of this website is primarily educational from a historical perspectivenot a medical perspective except so much is that historical medical percept active might help current doctors understand where they’re body of knowledge evolved from years ago. I also think there will be some entertainment value in looking at some concepts both moral concepts and scientific concepts that existed at the turn of the century.

  I invite you to come along on my journey with me as we analyze this book and I think I might make this a hobby of mine looking at other books in the future. This volume is 1700 pages long and covers a wide body of knowledge on many different topics. I don’t think this journey will end any time soon…

• Lead Palsy
  
  

  Lead Palsy. — under some special circumstances, not at present well understood, extremely minute amounts of lead in water may prove injurious. Thus, for example, Dr. Angus Smith speaks of cases in which lead paralysis, or palsy, was apparently produced by water containing only 1/100TH of a grain of lead to the gallon.

  I’d like to veer off the topic of lead poisoning for a second and just meditate on the fact that until I engaged in reading this section of the book, I had not taken the time to learn the definition of ‘palsy’

  Is is actually an alternative to the word paralysis, and might even be a slang term or abbreviated version of the word.  My own apathetic ignorance as it relates to this word, which to my ears in 2008 even sounds a little politically incorrect, speaks to a decrease in the threat of cerebral palsy even though paralysis (palsy) is still a real problem as a result of injuries.  I might be more in tune with seeking a car insurance quote than fearing for the potential of developing palsy as a result of lead poisoning.

• 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.