Art of Walking.- walking requires the nicest adjustment, prompt action, and the finest calculations to maintain the dignity, proper attitude, equipoise and balance of the body.  This is well illustrated when one runs up against any obstacle in the dark.  We observed then with what had long force the body is propelled forward.  In walking the first thing that occurs as the incline of the body for work; the foot is then gradually raised on the toes, and brought from a horizontal position into an almost vertical one; at the same time Denis, which was at first considerably bent, straightened out by the advancing forward movement.  Every part of the leg and thigh is changed its position except the toes; that part far this for the toes and most of all; and gradually diminishing in geometrical proportions downward.

Nice descriptions here even a reference to a commonality in 1910, the blacksmith.  Today, we'd be more likely to discover a career mom on a tread mill with a husband at home taking nuphedrine to lose weight.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Spring- and Well-Waters
  
  

  Spring- and Well-Waters.– Spring- and well-waters are almost always more or less impregnated with the soluble ingredients of the earth and rocks through which they pass, and are therefore sometimes very unsuitable for the ordinary ones of life. As a general rule, they are colder than other waters, although hot springs are found in various parts of the world, some with a temperature as high as the boiling point.

   

  Now unlike the last section, the section actually seems to describe one of the categories that has fallen into the varieties of water section. That said, the author does seem to mix and match two different categories together by combining springs with Wells. The obvious difference here is that a spring is natural and a well as to be done by a person. The author also doesn’t seem to take any consideration as to what might heat a spring, and from that perspective you once again have two doubts the scientific inquiry that has taken place within this section, like you might doubt a doctor prescribing legal steroids to a person is uninjured and planning on competing in the Olympics.

• THE BRAIN; AND A VERTICAL SECTION OF THE FACE AND NECK.
  
  

  in this section we start to follow the book as it starts to describe some of the basic functions in areas of the brain. The sexual be much more enlightening once we have the pictures up (chart 1). For now the language sounds somewhat overdone, however forth. The language was actually fairly straightforward and basic.

  What the Plate Shows – as we progress in our anatomical core says of study, our tension is firmly and deeply fixed in wonder and amazement at the marvelous mechanism revealed in the sublime profundity and grandeur brought out in this magnificent artistic plate. it brings before our astonished vision the beautiful proportions and symmetry of the human brain as it lays in situ within its bony castle; and as we look upon its way becalmed Aleutians we naturally turn our thoughts to the hidden mysteries of mind and to its superiority over matter, and to the illimitable intellectual properties,powers and capacity of the mind, that lay quietly slumbering in the depths of the human brain, for the mind of man surpasseth all things of human conception or construction. Below this mighty throne of reason and intelligence, on the left, we observed the cerebellum or lesser brain, I found from whence all the vegetative or organic functions of life — as respiration, beating of the heart, digestion, etc. — receive their inspiration and supply of vital force.

  there are two more parts that go along with this section of this chapter, the next section is the “view of the eye” and then the “the neck muscles” section. as these next two sections are relatively sure we will cover those together in the next article.

• BLADDER AND PART OF VAGINA.
  
  

  The function and form of the bladder are familiarly known. It is the recipient of the kidney secretions, and contains them till voided to the urinary canal. It is a tough, elastic structure, guarded at the exit by a contractile file, a means of which the urine can be retained until the quantity becomes excessive. The plate brings out the entire urinal tracks, from the bladder to the vagina, and presents a fine and useful anatomical and physiological study.

  Again within this section the author in his no-nonsense, concise and to the point and descriptive of process just enough, but not too much. The section is not terribly illuminating, and read somewhat like sixth grade biology report that lightly describes a topic but really doesn’t tell you any useful information. The lack of information as it can to using a light bulb from a hundred years ago versus using advanced halogen light today or possibly a high-end fixture such as kichler lighting. It just wasn’t a lot of information provided.