Various uses of the hand. -- with the hand we affirm or reject the proposition with more force than with the tongue. It is the first to greet, and the last to bid our friends goodbye. We use it to express our joy and pleasure, or to give vent to our fear and horror. In the hour of peril we employ it in powerful supplication to Him to whom we look for succor and help, and it adds force and power to the appeals of suffering, of sorrow and of woe. It bestows its loving caresses on the Downey cheek of the baby, invokes the blessings of Heaven, pleads for mercy, or hurls curses on our enemies. Indeed, we do not always seem to realize how many notes in the tune of human life a hand of man is made to play. Its beauties, it's perfect at its ability, it varied endowments, and the different uses to which it is applied, are almost beyond our thoughts, and he was deprived of this useful member sustained a loss that none can estimate, nor the wealth of Croesus compensate.
The Croesus reference relates to a very rich king that lived around the 500 BC period in what is today modern day Turkey. The reference of course is one that indicates that some things when lost can not be made up for with money at any level. You can repair some injuries, you can even compensate for others such as a drug addiction by attending drug rehabs.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- 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).
- Blood Vessels
Blood-Vessels. –on the next lap we have a graphic illustration of the internal arrangements of the blood-vessels of the lungs and bronchial tubes. The pulmonary artery, arising from the right ventricle of the heart, conveys the venous blood to the lungs. It penetrates the lungs and divides and subdivides into branches, which accompanied the bronchial tubes and terminate in a dense capillary net-work upon the walls of their cells, where the blood undergoes that magical change, giving up its poisonous qualities and becoming revivified and healthful.
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Note the use of the word ‘net-work’, obviously an early predecessor to the very common word network. I found this little nugget of gold to be very interesting as networks are so synonymous in today’s world and speech, and found it very amusing to find an example of the early use of the word before it had truly come together into its modern-day form, which even today is now abbreviated to a more common usage of “net,” I guess we take the “work” in network for granted these days.
For more on the entymology of the word Network see http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=network&searchmode=none
- Insects As Common Carriers
Insects As Common Carriers.- great strides have been made in recent years by scientists in regards to the further prevention of disease by studying the life habits of insects. It has been clearly proven that the poison or germ of certain diseases are carried by them, such as tuberculosis, typhoid fever, bowel complaints of children, by the common housefly; malaria and yellow fever by the mosquito; the bubonic plague by the rat flea, of which there are several varieties, and the squirrel flea, of which there are also several.
It is easily understood that to prevent the spread of a contagious disease from one individual to another, the precautions are not complete unless he or she be protected against either the bite of a mosquito or fleet which is received into its own blood the poison or the germ causing the disease, which conveys by biting another person. Fly should be kept out as, by coming in contact with the spittle or discharges from a patient, they carry the germ of poison upon their feet, etc. to the food, milk, water and by direct contact to another person.
As to aid in the prevention of disease, the numerous boards of health of city and state have issued regulations and instructions whereby these insects can be destroyed and then every person, sick or well, can be protected. If well, the flight is a danger by bringing disease into her home, if ill, it can convey our disease to another screen is home and start an epidemic.
There is distinctly different set of priorities that are being covered in this book than those we might consider today. Typically malaria for example is only known in the tropics, but that definitive line on the globe might not have been known about back then. Installing screens on Windows had a dual benefit of keeping out mosquitoes as well as flies. Today we might worry about getting a discount on budget software or spending less time in traffic, but back then mosquitoes had much larger impact on the lives of people in the west much as the same insects have a great impact on people that live in Africa today.
