The Kidneys.-- The kidneys are two glandular bodies, having for their functions the secretion of urine. The form of the kidney resembles a French bean; its average length team from four to four and a half inches, two inches in breadth and one in thickness. The two kidneys are situated one on each side of the spine and the lumbar region, opposite the last two dorsal and two first lumbar vertebrae; they are a brownish-read color flattened from before word, and grooved on the anterior border for the reception of the great vessels.
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I do not know what a French bean looks like, but I suspect people to read the book 100 years ago probably did. I suppose this is some sort of reference point is lost its way over the years even though I'm sure there are a few people that knows what this still is. This book was written to be a common reference for the everyday person hundred years ago, but it probably would not connect home with everyday people in the current century. There are a number of ways to look at this, but it is important to remember that a reference that can be understood is very important when you're trying to help somebody possibly save their life or prevent further injury, if you give a reference to medical supplies describing what they look like and where they should be located, but the person that you tell doesn't understand what you're saying it could be the difference between life and death. That said, this is more of an anatomy lesson and it is doubtful that the average person really needed to know what the kidneys look like in a human person. This was probably more beneficial for a person that might actually consider studying it as an in depth later on down the road.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- How to Perfect Your Smile with Veneers?
One hundred years ago the smile you were born with or grew soon there after, was pretty much as good as it got. In fact, you could probably count on things getting worse as you got older and at best you could expect false teeth if you could afford them in cash.These days we have many new options to make your smile as good as that of a movie star’s. In addition to straightening your teeth with braces, you can have your smile brightened up with veneers.
A veneer is simply something that goes on the outside face of your teeth. It can be composite veneers, made of a composite of materials that is applied to your tooth. It can also be porcelain and can then be bonded directly to the exterior of your teeth.
You do not have to have your teeth pulled to end up with a perfect looking smile. You can also maintain your teeth just like you would today, brushing and flossing as you still have the same teeth, they just get a makeover!
You do not have to shell out a fortune going to an orthodontist, you can simply go to a dentist to have the procedure done. Its easier than having a cap or filling put on your teeth and painless as well.
- NATURAL POSITION OF CHILD AT TIME OF BIRTH
This beautiful and effective plate shows the natural position of the child at the time of birth. It is technically called the presentment of the fœtus for birth. Of the presentment’s there are many varieties, whose study is most interesting to the obstetrician. Some of them give rise to very difficult and dangerous delivery. When the presentment is natural, as in the figure, the comfort of the mother is increased and the doctor’s anxiety is modulated.
First off, the plate that this section refers to is located in our section on chart 2. Here is the specific picture in question.
Second,that lasthave sense that talks about the anxiety of the doctor, I think that could be misconstrued a couple different ways. It could appear that the author is more worried about the doctor than the mother. That was my initial interpretation.
It could also be, that the author was trying to tell the reader, that it’s okay to be anxious or you should be anxious if the fetus is not in the ideal position at childbirth.This could be some sort of hidden warning.It could also be something to tell doctors to relax if things are lined up correctly.
At this time, most babies were delivered at home.If a doctor was present, that was actually something.There really wasn’t a great deal that they could do though if things went seriously wrong.
In our modern era we are so used to having medical professionals on hand to cover every little thing from corrective eye surgery to a nose job and we don’t think about these things. Furthermore, medical services of the specialized nature are becoming close in common. If I need to find a charlotte cosmetic dentist to fix my smile, I can drive 20 miles down the road and find one.
Back then, you are doing good field drive a buggy 20 miles down the road to find a general practice doctor.
- Cerebrum and Cerebellum
I’m starting to get caught up on my study of the book of medicine now. Today I’m covering a larger section on the cerebrum and cerebellum and tomorrow I’ll be covering the olfactory nerve in the tongue.
Cerebrum and Cerebellum - We observed that the cerebrum, the seat of mind and volition, is much larger than the cerebellum or little brain; a biz though that was not enough area for the evolution of the mind, we see this part of the brain most curiously wrinkled and folded into various sized convolutions, thus increasing the mental service. The more numerous these convolutions are, the higher and more noble and mental faculties and intellectual powers become. The hemisphere of the brain, here shown, is seen to be divided into three lobes, the frontal, middle and posterior. The Corpus Callosum, or the great commissioner of the brain, is most faithfully represented, and immediately below is seen the Fornix. The peculiar appearance of the cerebellum or little brain presents a tree-like resemblance, once it is called arbor vitae, or the tree of life.
This section has several interesting segment Senate that stood out to me as I read them. Plus it had a third that stood out to my wife. My wife wondered if the word convolutions meant the same thing as convulsions. “Is that even a word? Are they spelled the same she asked?”
They are both words and both different words at that. For entertainment purposes I will provide you with my assumed definition even though I could be wrong. Maybe someone will take the light 90 years from now in interpreting my definition or perceived definition of these words.
To me a convolutions is something that represents a folding or a complex structure such as the folds of the brain.
Where as, in a a convulsion is a physical act as someone made a fall into when they are suffering from epilepsy or choking or some act of involuntary muscle control.
I also found it somewhat entertaining to hear the author describes a noble mental faculties and references to the higher brain. This book was written before World War I and World War II where was publicly documented and historically written down for the record that the human brain has the capability to perform things that are far less than noble and definitely not intrinsic to our own thought processes. I suspect there’s also certain nonsecular references to the concept that a person is of a higher level of importance in the grand scheme of things. The connotations of this verbiage have much potential but its true intent is probably only something that we will build a speculate on going even further into the future.
