The common fly (Musca domestica).- the only way to prevent the flight curing diseases to destroy history in place, keep them out of the home, etc., when developed, by screens and swat or catch by flypaper, etc., everyone seen in a room.

Houseflies are a danger to human life.  Airborne filth, feed upon garbage, sewage waste matter of all kinds.  They carry germs on the pro-business of their bodies, and a single flaw is known to have carried as many as 350,000 germs and given them off into the liquid food in which it was floating.  They also carry numerous germs inside their bodies which they convey to food, etc., and their vomit and all matter.

Flies can carry disease germs of typhoid fever, consumption, diarrhea, dysentery and other diseases from a sufferer to you.  They come in contact with your food, milk, water, etc., you're sleeping child, or a light on an open wound, direct from the garbage can, because the door, this bit industry, etc., from decaying animal and vegetable matter and from the sick room.  Thus every individual should do everything possible to aid the physician, city and state and destroy these known carriers of filth and disease and thereby prevent sickness, due to carelessness and indifference by permitting flies to breathe and live.

If you consider the tone of this particular section, you would think that the housefly was the Swiss Army knife of disease carriers in the Western world.  In fact today we understand their purpose and the world a little bit better, but that doesn't mean that they should be entirely permitted to run amok.  Typically the presence as a result of some other item that has started to decay in the area and attracted flies.  The presence of this item sometimes can be more dangerous than the flight itself, but the fly can definitely spread that around once the process is started.  In their defense there are some practical uses for utilizing flies or even sterile I'll maggots to help clean items from time to time.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Breathing Capacity of Lungs
  
  

  Breathing Capacity of Lungs. –the breeding capacity of the lungs bears a close correspondence to the stature of man. For an ordinary sized man of about 5′8″ in height, it will be 230 cubic inches, or about 1 gallon of air, and for each additional inch of stature up to 6 feet, there will be an increase of 8 cubic inches. in a forcible expiration all the air in the lungs is not expelled; or still remains behind 100 cubic inches. thus, with his son expelled air, the breeding capacity of an ordinary sized man is about 330 cubic inches, or equivalent to 11 pints of air. Of the 230 cubic inches, 100 can only be forced into lungs by the exercise of great effort, and is available for emergencies as striking a heavy blow, or for the purpose of training, as in singing, rolling, running, climbing, etc.; but the extra amount of air old was on hand in the lungs is of great value, since it enables the lungs to perform their functions continuously, even under severe and violent exertions.

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  At this point in time I’m on page 47 of this text. We’ve been walking through basic anatomy, and I have a layman’s education in anatomy. I think this might be the first time that I’ve actually learned something conceivably useful from the book. I do not know how accurate it might be, I was intrigued by the concept that some of the air for the lungs remains in the lungs continuously. I do understand the concept of air pressure and this does make logical sense in that regards. It would also explain why it’s important to cover hole in the chest if you happen to puncture a lung. The puncture creates a deflated long which is lost that amount of air which remains at a constant level.

  All in all I’m quite impressed that I have learned something from the book that’s meant to teach me something.

• Ventricles of the Heart
  
  

  Ventricles of the Heart. — the walls of the left ventricle, which propels the blood to the remotest corners of the human frame, are correspondingly thicker and stronger than those of the right, which forces the blood to the lungs only. Arising from the right ventricle is seeing the blue pulmonary artery, conveying its foul, poisonous, vitiated and venous stream to the lungs, well from the left ventricle is observed a large main artery of the circulatory system — the aorta — from the arch of which arise the right and left carotid arteries.

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  So in the section they jump back into describing parts of the heart as foul and poisonous? There definitely seems to be a lack of knowledge or understanding of what’s going on here, I’m no medical professional bottom of aspirin in about five minutes when the world people might have thought that the ventricles of a heart deliver poisonous blood to the lungs? Seems absurd.

  And was an aside, our blog is currently funded in part through blog advertising. You may notice is from time to time, we work with an excellent firm that provides us with ad placements throughout our blog. These ad placements are very unobtrusive and help keep us working to delve further into an understanding of medicine as it was taught a hundred years ago and as our culture looks at medicine today.

• The Olfactory Nerve & The Tongue
  
  

  This week I have uploaded a number of the pictures I’ve been promising for a couple weeks scanned. I will provide an administrative update about that soon after I do it, and I will go back and update hyperlinks in past articles directing to those images readers that find the articles and some date after they’ve been published. For anyone following along in the feed of this website the ordering of articles may get a little jumbled for a day or two as I perform those updates. I apologize for that in advance.  Here is the link for the often reference set of pictures from Chart 1.

  With this article I’m going to move into the next two sections that cover the olfactory nerve and the tongue.

  The Olfactory Nerve – the olfactory nerve is graphically displayed, branches of which are seen passing in all directions over the mucous membrane of the nose. A little to the left of the olfactory nerve is seeing the posterior nares, and immediately below the pharynx and epiglottis, the aesophagus or gullit, the larynx and trachea or wind-pipe.

  The Tongue – the tongue, or organ of taste and instrument of speech, is most accurately represented, the muscular fibers of which are seen running in different but determinant ways, is giving to this important organ variety and regularity of motion and 18 it to assume numerous shapes and forms. The cervical portion of the spinal column is seeing, with the fleshy part of the back of the neck attached. This plate is one that commends itself to our deep in careful study.

  There is not too much that leaps out from this particular section as the text is basically describing a picture. I didn’t spell a suspect is in the way that the book spells the word with an ‘a’ proceeding the ‘e’ of esophagus. There is something about old writing which I have not learned yet that sometimes puts an ‘a’ before and ‘e’. I’ve seen this in words such as, Aegypt v. Egypt and many others. One of these days I will look up the history of the word possibly it’s a Latin derivative of some type or another, I’m not certain today.