Saline Impurity. -- But any quantity of saline impurity exceeding thirty-five grains to the gallon renders a water unfit for the freest domestic use. Such water would be popularly designated as a very "hard" water, but a good deal of in difference is caused by the nature of the hardness, that due to sulfate of lime, and called the permanent hardness because it is not removable by boiling, being decidedly most prejudicial to health.
Okay so I'm going to admit freely that have no idea what this last paragraph was about. I understand what saline solution is, and I understand what hard water is. But I do not understand how the two come together in this particular paragraph and what it might mean even in the context of the previous paragraph in section. I think progress like this that I wish I had found a 100-year-old golf digest talking about golf bags and techniques as opposed to a medical journal. :-)
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Contrasting the choice to Study Nursing today and 100 years Ago
A hundred years ago nurses did not always happen into the profession by choice. The book of medicine as we follow it shows us that 90 years ago, it was expected that most mothers would perform the nursing functions for their entire family. They were expected to have a rudimentary understanding of how to care for their family if they became ill or injured and to care for them long enough until a doctor could arrive.
Professional nurses, did not always enter into the career by choice. Treated as much as a servant almost as opposed to a medical professional or care giver.
Today, things have changed dramatically. Nurses often find themselves in very lucrative and respectable careers. The times have changed a great deal and its no longer uncommon for men to take up careers as nurses. There are many types of degrees and even more importantly specialties that nurses can track into within school.
With all of the specialties available from nursing anesthesiologists, to nurse mid-wives that can prescribe medicine, to LPN’s and RPN’s and much more, its very important for people considering a future in nursing to look closely at themselves and determine not only if nursing is a good fit, but why nursing might be a good fit and then what area of nursing to study and pursue for a career.
There is a huge demand for nurses all across the country. Pay scales for different specialties in nursing vary widely. If money is important its important to understand that the difference in starting pay for nurses with specialties can be as wide as $120,000 per year (that’s the amount of the difference between starting salaries of $150,000 per year versus $30,000 per year!). Choosing the right path for financial reasons can definitely be important up front.
If the degree of responsibility is important, or if a certain degree of autonomy is desirable then its important to consider certain specialties that might provide the right fit for these types of personalities that are predisposed to responsibility and autonomy.
Then if you are looking to ask yourself where to start, its also important to consider what learning environments work for you and how you learn certain subjects in those environments. As an example, I can study history online easily, but I took a statistics course online once and was miserably lost for several weeks. I had to repeat the course in a real class and it was much easier. I went on to get my master’s online and soon realized that some classes require hands on instruction in a classroom and some are best suited for online study. The subject matter comes into play, the professor’s styles and organization levels come into play and much more. Online learning can be a massive relief for people that have inflexible schedules, but it does not mean that you will spend less time working.
This is a highly demanding career path both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Some people are naturals and some people are not naturals at all but through perseverance and very hard work become extremely capable and skilled. You have to ask yourself if this is a fit for you, why its a fit, how its a fit, what you can do to be successful in nursing and what you will need to do to be successful in obtaining your nursing degrees and certifications.
Good luck, based on my own studies online and through my examination of this book, I can tell you that learning to be nurse today is much easier, much more rewarding, and at the same time much more challenging and possibly more dynamic!
- Chart II – THE INTERNAL WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY REVEALED
CHART II
THE INTERNAL WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY REVEALED
THE HUMAN BODY AND ITS MARVELOUS PERFECTION
Wonderful Structure of the Body — The human body is the highest form of animal life. It is full of beautiful proportions and divinely symmetrical in shape, form, mould and outline. We look with honest pride and glowing admiration upon the many accomplishments that man is achieved in the world around us. We see is skill displayed in the various arts and sciences, and we look with awe upon the projects of his intellect and reason, the realization of which is but a small question of time! We boast of our ships, our steamboats and our steam cars; we are justly proud of our bridges, our viaducts and the progress of our engineering skill; we grow enthusiastic over our telegraphs, our telephones, our electric lights; we feel a degree of national pride in the achievements in successes of Edison, the wizard of Menlo Park; aware, let us ask, in the whole range of events, the acquirements of arts, the attainments of engineering, or the successes and promises of electrical sciences, can we find such an other structure as the human body, that curious, yet perfect world of wonders!
As we closed up the section on chart 1, I marveled at the lack of verbosity (apparently it’s contagious upon reading this book) that the author had foregone. The author must have sensed the fact that they missed an opportunity and rapidly work to make it up in the titles of this section and in this opening paragraph. The flowery language is definitely back.
Even more interesting are several anecdotes about the moral goals and accomplishments of the human race that distinctly date the book. The author describes steamboats and steam cars as existing technologies and not technologies are long dead. The author then goes on to describe new technologies such as electric lights, telephones, and even telegraphs, which are technologies that today are either dead or dying. The author even speaks of Thomas Edison in a way that makes you think that Thomas Edison is actually alive or just recently passed, possibly someone at the author even knew. For the record Thomas Edison did not pass away until 1931, and so the author was in fact dropping a name of a living hero to technology into the advances of not only science but practical applications of science.
Today we might mention people like Steve Wozniak or Steve Jobs were Bill Gates as people that are brought a modern marvel of technology in the personal computer into the homes and offices and/or rooms of almost every person in the
Comparably this is 2007 as I’m writing this today and the personal computer was invented somewhere between 1972 and 1976 depending on which organization or person you credit for creating the personal computer. My personal vote goes to Xerox and the
- VIEW OF THE BASE OF THE BRAIN, AND THE THOUHGTS IT SUGGESTS
We now kick off a new section focusing on the base of the brain.
Shape of Brain– As so graphically delineated in this beautiful as well as natural illustration of the human brain, we glean a knowledge of the origin and source of its blood supply; the arteries are observed to distribute numerous branches in very us directions along and over its surface, many of which penetrate its substance. As noticed, the brain presents an ovoid or egg shaped appearance, divided into two equal, lateral halves — hemispheres as they are called — thus virtually giving us two brains, the same as we have two eyes, two arms and two legs. With this surplus of brains, as it were, at our command, we are naturally lead to ask the question, who can define the metes and bounds of the mind? or described the limits of our intellectual capacity? Who can fathom the depths of thought? Or circumscribe our mental, educational or scientifical acquirements, when health grounds the human temple with its rubicund mantle? Echo answers who?
Now I love it when the authors of this book go into weird speculative diatribes. In this section we are given one of those strange diatribes. The author starts to provide a description of the diagram of the brain and then launches into hypothetical questions that have no answer.
It strikes me that based on the extra spectacular use of profound words, that the author is almost writing in a way to prove their knowledge and authority and their own deep thoughts only possible due to the extraordinary brain that they possess as they described the brain in general. I think it’s important to mention that this book is destined for housewives in an era hundred years ago where any child that grew up to be lucky to possess and elementary education. The use of words such as ‘rubicund’ and ‘circumscribe’ strike me as words that probably weren’t understood at that time. However it’s possible that these were everyday words in an era when language was different than it is today. Circumscribe is not a particularly odd word today however rubicund is.
So as the author left off with many hypothetical questions, I will do the same.
Did the author intend to impress turn-of-the-century housewives with his fancy talk? Did the female editor of this work change the words to something fancier than what the original author had written? Was the author attempting to fill the book with more words, using 20 where one might do? Was language such as this used more commonly a hundred years ago? Is there something biblical sounding about these words or do they commit a type of philosophical sentiment?
I’m sure there are dozens of other questions that can be emitted about this, but it’s these types of phrases and perspectives that make this study of the book interesting.