The Veins.--The venal arteries are derived direct from the aorta; and the large veins terminate in the ascending large vein. On the right kidney is seeing the super-renal capsule; whilst the left is cut vertically into showing the uriniferous tubes, much convoluted and inosculating with each other. The ureter is seen arising from the pelvis of the kidney, descending in an oblique manner to the bladder. These wonderful little organs appear to act as filters, and thus assist to keep the vital stream of life and as pure and as healthy a condition as possible.
The Bladder.--The bladder is a thin, membranous bag, which serves as he receiver of the year and secreted by the kidneys, and which remains there until voided by your nation through the urethra.
Bone Sections.-- the sections of the bones show their cancellated appearance, which combines lightness with strength.
As I was putting together the section and transcribing it from the book, the translation software had quit the difficulty with several of the words in this section. Uriniferous actually stood out as eight extra troubling word.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Today’s Medical Assistant – Last Centuries Family Member Care Giver
A hundred years ago, the Book of Medicine would have helped to guided anyone in the household capable of reading in the arts of care giving, preventive maintenance and even healing. Today, every facet of the medical world has a specialization level associated with it from the level of medical assistant to general practice doctors to surgeons.
These days it also takes a lot more effort. There are medical assistant school options that provide medical assistant training in courses that can be completed in less than a few months for under a thousand dollars.
The Book of Medicine was written to provide the general tools that your average person might be confronted with in a health emergency or even to prevent one. Times have changed significantly and the opportunities to help people in many ways have become greater in number and easier to grab.
- Wonders of the Eye.
Wonders of the Eye. – the human eye is one of the most wonderful, as well as delicate, organs of the body. It is the window through which the heart, mind and soul of man shines. Sorrow or joy, reformers, pain or pleasure, sunshine or shadow or reflected through this wondrous camera of light; the human passions hold their orgies in this window; truth and love dance they’re happy and joyous daydreams before its luminous curtain; and through it accurate to limitations of every object comes within its range are carried to and photographed on the brain, the great Art Gallery of the soul! Can man, with all of his great and scientific achievements, conceive of anything in the arcana of his accomplishments more beautiful, more wonderful, or more perfect than the human eye!
Just a quick refresher, our transcription strives to be great but is still not fool proof. If you spot an error or something that looks wrong, please drop us a comment and let us know and we will review it again. As we cover writing from 100 years ago, it sometimes becomes difficult to spot an error created now from one that was borderline then. In the meantime, we’ll try not to pull the roller shades down over our own eyes . . .
- Sea-Water
Sea-Water.-Sea-water varies considerably in composition, being, of course, more concentrated, as a rule, in the tropical regions, where evaporation is most active, such, for example, as in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean near the equator. According to analysis, the water in the English Channel contains in 1000 parts‑
Chloride of Sodium 28.05
Chloride of Magnesium…………………….. 3.66
Sulphate of Magnesia 2.29
Sulphate of Lime ……………………………. 1.40
Other Saline Materials ……………………….. .76
Total Solid Matter…………………….. 36. 16
Besides these, and perhaps contributing largely to the healthful qualities of sea-water, there exist in the ocean small quantities of iodine and bromide, and extremely minute amounts of some of the common metals. It has been found that, by dissolving a little common salt and carbonate of soda, lime and magnesia in distilled sea-water, its taste is rendered much more agreeable; and this plan, it is said, is adopted in the Russian navy.
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As in the last section where they talk about distilling sea water for drinking on ships, this talks about some of the other materials that can be extracted during the distillation process. With the exception of salt extraction some of these other materials don’t seem terribly practical. Times do change however, and if water is extracted every bit of material that comes with it has to go somewhere whether it can be sold in bulk for mass production of vitamins or horse supplements or what ever.
