Blood Vessels of the Body.--The blood-vessels of the human body consists of heart, arteries, veins and capillaries. the heart and its wonders we have already referred to. In this magnificent chart we are enabled to form some idea of the larger blood-vessels. We see the main arterial tube of the body -- the aorta -- from a point where it unites with the arch of the aorta; and in its dissent downward along the spinal column it gives off numerous branches.
The Arteries.--opposite the fourth lumbar vertebra is seen to split in two, and these divisions are called, from their position, the right and left iliac arteries. These are seen to divide again into the internal and external iliac arteries, the former of which is distributed to the walls and this are contained in the pelvis, then proceeding to the lower limbs after sending two important branches to the abdominal walls. The arch of the aorta gives off the innominate artery, which divides and to the right carotid and right subclavian arteries; the left carotid and left subclavian spring direct from the arch of the aorta. Each carotid artery divides into the external and internal carotid arteries, the former being distributed to the external parts of the face and head; the latter supplies the brain and internal parts of the cranium. The subclavian arteries supply the upper extremities with blood.
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These sections are fairly descriptive and provide an apt description of these initial areas covered. The word innominate did throw me for a loop and I had to go look it up on Wikipedia.
As a processing point for this blog, I'm going to attempt to speed up my coverage of the book. So for things to be going a little too slow for my own tastes and I don't want to grow stale on the topic. I hope you'll bear with me, but this may lead to if you additional incorrect translations of the spellings from the book. I feel the need to get through the book and I suspect I will be making additional passes back to the book at later dates. If you come across anything that just doesn't make sense and I haven't covered already please feel free to leave a comment, I'll reference again in the book and determine if I've made in an accurate translation or if it's just a peculiar topic as it's covered in the book itself.
I don't expect any extreme mistakes or extra peculiar things to come up such as substituting strange words into context in the book are ascribing people wearing an animal costume or who knows what, but I am using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to translate the book and the software does upon occasion make some strange substitutions and words.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- How to Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies
How to Eliminate the Breeding Places of Flies.-flies breed by laying Lara by or eggs which can be seen as maggots in all undisturbed till. It requires eight days for the millions of eggs to grow. Keep garbage can tightly covered, protect by screen so that flies cannot reach the garbage. See the garbage is collected promptly and cleanly. If you live in the country, burned or bury it. Allowed no filth or decaying matter of any kind to accumulate in or near your premises. Keep stable clean, placed in Newark, old straw, etc., in screened pits, vault, or in boxes or barrels which should be well covered. Screen all previous, vault and openings to cesspools or drainage structures. See that they do not overflow and use chloride of lying freely. Pour kerosene into drains, keep drainage systems in good order and repair all leaks at once. Destroy sawdust custom doors, they are unsanitary. Clean custom doors daily and keep a 5% carbolic acid solution in them all the time. Permit no dirt to accumulate in corners, behind doors, back of radiators, under still owes, et cetera. If there is a nuisance in the neighborhood, notify the nearest health authority.
Well pouring kerosene into water drains these days would definitely be something that the EPA would have a problem with. But you can and must understand the naïve concepts if they had about protecting their homes and households from disease and other infectious things that could hurt them immediately and possibly have prevented them from seeing the long-term problems that might have come from contaminants going into water supply. They can see the cause-and-effect problems of disease, but they could oversee the cause-and-effect relating to contamination of other items such as kerosene mixing with water supplies. We are talking about serious issues keeping people healthy as opposed to coming up with tips on the best acne treatment for a teenager.
- Buying Prescription Drugs Online Through an Escrow Agency
If you have ever considered or tried purchasing prescription drugs online or even supplements, the internet is a very difficult place. You can never really be certain if a company will actually deliver what you order or whether they will deliver what they promise.
Enter the Canada Pharmacy Escrow Service which basically enables you to- shop for drugs and supplements online
- Review prices from pharamacies around the world
- Place orders through those pharmacies
- Provide a prescription or have a medical review performed online
- Get the drugs or supplements shipped to you.
- If a pharmacy does not deliver or the shipment is lost (remember this is international) then the escrow service protects you and reships the order at no additional cost.
This basically opens up the pharmacies around the world to people shopping for the best prices. It is an interesting business application to a problem that was created by the internet and the flattening of the world economy.
More an more escrow services in general are finding new and useful applications to a number of areas on the internet, medicine is just one of them, but given skyrocketing price of medicine prices around the world, this offers a solution of enabling customers to benefit from price arbitrage (buying from whatever jurisdiction or pharmacy offers the lowest price).
- Sewer Gas Poison
Sewer Gas Poison. — it had obviously absorbed sewer gas, which it ascended through the overflow pipe, and that this had been the real cause of the disease was indicated by the fact that the diarrhea disappeared almost as rapidly as it had broken out, when the cistern was emptied and the pipe efficiently trapped.
Diarrhea in Country Districts. — Dr. Wilson declares that, according to his experience, much of the diarrhea which prevails in country districts during the summer and autumn amongst children is due to polluted water, drunk either as it is drawn from the well or when mixed with milk, fraudulently or by accident.
I combined these two sections as they are both relatively short and again lend to my hypothesis that the author was paid for not only word count, but important (and unnecessary ) ‘important’ section count. Now , that said, I find this interesting also from the perspective that I myself in doing home improvement projects from installing PVC pipe, toilets and bathroom faucets and systems, I have worked through problems and with plumbing systems that benefited from this knowledge. Although when I was taught how to install pipes and instructed in things about sewer gases and vents I was led to believe that these things were done primarily to help with the pressure and dynamics of making things flush and the possibility of what the gas might do in and of itself didn’t really come up, and was treated almost like something that was obvious.
