Muscular Levers.-These great muscular levers in the body forward on the thigh, and bring the legs inward toward each other, besides moving the whole body to and fro when walking, etc. The long, narrow muscle, seen running bleakly across the thought, is the Sartorius muscle, a so called from the fact that it crosses the legs for the sartorial (Tailor's) posture. It is the longest muscle in the body.
When I attempted to look up the word 'sartorial' in Wikipedia, I could find no reference for it. I'm not exactly sure what a tailor's posture looks like. Maybe its a form of exercise and maybe its something that tailors used to employ when taking measurements years ago. I'm not sure. I can almost picture someone doing squats or leg lifts or something working with strength equipment to build up their muscles in some archaic way.
All I could find, was something that referenced the tailor posture for child birth.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Muscles of the Eye
Muscles of the Eye.-I’m turning the flap we see four of the six delicate, who with all strong muscles which I would hold I firmly in its bony orbit, but also moved upward toward the canopied vaults of heaven, downward to view the beauties of nature on earth; or sideways to the right or left, Spain have to horizon at a single glance! The next illustration gives us a graphic and faithful to limitation of the beautiful arrangements of the numerous curtains, humors, lenses, pigments, membranes, nervous coats and blood vessels which enter into the composition of this remarkable organ, each of which is exquisitely adapted to the respective functions has to perform.
As you can tell, we are getting back on track with this effort after a couple month hiatus mostly do to (ironically) poor health. No other projects are going to slow us down and we now have a promoter that will even help us hire more transcriptionists as we cover Wilmington real estate.
- Colon Cleanser on Public Health Forum
Now I cover a lot of items that seem a little peculiar culturally speaking. Today, I happened across PublicHealthForums.com. One of their sub-forums is a Bowtrol Forum. People show up to the forum to get Bowtrol Reviews and try and decide whether or not they should Buy Bowtrol.
Now I mention this because one of the people visiting the form asked the perfectly logical question:
I have a question. I just ordered a two months supply. My husband is afraid to try the product during working hours. Will it cause discomfort during the day? Any cramping, diarrhea, or other extremes?
That is definitely a reasonable question for a colon cleanser. Culturally speaking I wonder what people will think about this type of Social Networking in the future. In many ways the Library of Health is a book that published the accumulated medical knowledge of the time to distribute to people around the country. It was a codification of medical practices and possibly word of mouth knowledge and herbal lore even.
Not so different than people coming together to work out a best practice solution for the usage of a medical product or treatment today.
- Cause of Goitre
Cause of Goitre. — the swelling of the thyroid gland in the neck, producing the repulsive deformity of Goitre, or Derby Shire neck, seems to be intimately connected with mineral impurities and water. In Nottingham England, where this disease is not unfrequently met with, the common people attribute it to the hardness of the water, and in other parts of Great Britain is found to prevail only, or at least especially, in those districts where the magnesium limestone formation abounds.
Okay I have to admit that this time I had no idea what goiter was, or why it was spelled with what appears to be a French spelling. But I was curious and so I decided to look it up on Wikipedia. When I did this, I found thisdisturbing pictureof a woman with an extremely swollen neck.So as I look this up on Wikipedia, I learned that basically this disease occurs due to a lack of iodine. It’s not caused by the presence of chemicals as thought 100 years ago,but by the absenceof iodine in a person’s diet.
Today salt is commonly fortified with iodine, which helps to prevent the spread of this disease.
Here’s an interesting history on the treatment of goitre from Wikipedia, which might help with this and more perspective.
Chinese physicians of the Tang Dynasty (618–907) were the first to successfully treat patients with goiter by using the iodine-rich thyroid gland of animals such as sheep and pigs—in raw, pill, or powdered-mixture-in-wine form.[1] This was outlined in Zhen Quan’s (died 643 AD) book, as well as several others.[2] One Chinese book (i.e. The Pharmacopoeia of the Heavenly Husbandman) asserted that iodine-rich sargassum was used to treat goiter patients by the 1st century BC, but this book was written much later.[3]
In the 12th century, al-Jurjani, a Persian physician, provided the first description of Graves’ disease after noting the association of goitre and exophthalmos in his Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm, the major medical dictionary of its time.[4][5] Al-Jurjani also established an association between goitre and palpitation.[6] The disease was later named after Irish doctor Robert James Graves,[7] who described a case of goiter with exophthalmos in 1835. The German Karl Adolph von Basedow also independently reported the same constellation of symptoms in 1840, while earlier reports of the disease were also published by the Italians Giuseppe Flajani and Antonio Giuseppe Testa, in 1802 and 1810 respectively,[8] and by the English physician Caleb Hillier Parry (a friend of Edward Jenner) in the late 18th century.[9]
Paracelsus (1493–1541) was the first person to propose a relationship between goitre and minerals (particularly lead) in drinking water.[10] Iodine was later discovered by Bernard Courtois in 1811 from seaweed ash.
Goitre was previously common in many areas that were deficient in iodine in the soil. For example, in the English Midlands, the condition was known as Derbyshire Neck. In the United States, goitre was found in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and Intermountain regions. The condition now is practically absent in affluent nations, where table salt is supplemented with iodine. However, it is still prevalent in India,[11] Central Asia and Central Africa.
Some health workers fear that a resurgence of goitre might occur because of the trend to use rock salt and/or sea salt, which has not been fortified with iodine. New research indicates that there may in fact be a tendency to inherit an increased vulnerability to goitre.
Interesting, but I’m glad we figured out the cause and the solution for this one. Next up, Viagra and acne cream,
just kidding seems like we’ve covered some of the more serious things over the last hundred years and now fiddling around with less serious things.
