The Famous London Pump. -- at any rate, the Broad Street pump had in London the reputation of furnishing, and it's cold sparkling waters, a better medium for "the cup which cheers but does not inebriate," then was elsewhere to be found. When the cholera invaded this neighborhood the wealthy residents retired to the fashionable suburbs which were still uninfected; but, to the surprise of many, the cholera broke out among them with terrible severity. The health officers soon discovered, however, that those who were attacked had sent and every day to their favorite Broad Street pump for their water supply, and, by removing the pump handle, they quickly put an end to the epidemic.

It's interesting to note that this particular paragraph describes a rather famous historical incident that did occur in London and marked the discovery of cholera by John Snow, who was responsible for removing that pump handle, as well as plotting the progression of the disease as it broke out throughout London.

The discussion and precautions offered throughout this section would have been as practical as a person offering advice today providing tips to buy car insurance online. In the west we do not hear about this disease as often as they did 100 years ago in America or Europe for that matter, but in the east and developing areas of the world that have not upgraded their water plants (or installed water plants and sewage treatment at all) this is still a very real issue.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Second Use of Breathing
  
  

  Second Use of Breathing. –Nor is the stupendousness all. Nature dislikes a waste of energy. In addition to and by a wise adaptation and economy, the process of respiration is made to sub serve a second use no less important than that of purifying the blood — the power of speech. The exhaled air, laden though it may be with the human detritus and off-scourings of the body, and passing through the vocal organs can be transformed into pairs of faith, songs of hope and words of good cheer, kindly encouragement and expressions of love!

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  That section definitely fits into our bizarre grammar category. As I transcribed those words from the text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program really had to do some backflips. It definitely stumbled a few times on that one. there so many bizarre points of view and usages of grammar in that paragraph but I’m not sure where to begin.

  I guess all start at the end. They jump into a weird peculiar and strange way of talking about the good things that people can say because they breathe air out of their lungs. Don’t blame mer if I say a curse word, blame the air I’m breathing out?

  The author didn’t try to state that exactly, but they definitely used a bunch of mumbo-jumbo and so their real meaning or intention behind their words is probably lost to the ages.

• Diet Profiles with MyFitnessPal
  
  

  As I go through the book of medicine, I’ve been thinking more and more about my health. I am not terribly unhealthy nor am I very overweight, however my diet is definitely not terrific.

  I thought I would get some sort of baseline assessment of what my dietary goals should be as it relates to my weight. I weigh about 173 pounds and I’m 6 foot one. I’ve recently put on about 10 pounds and I’d like to get down to an ideal weight of about 160, a very tone 160.

  I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder, but I don’t desire any excess fat either. I do work in front of a computer for many hours at a time and that lends itself to putting on a little weight around my belly. I do go jogging about four times a week for a couple miles.

  I went over to MyFitnessPal.com so I could establish a dietary profile. It only took about 60 seconds to complete this profile and get a very baseline assessment of what I might need to do.

  

  I wouldn’t have to make too many adjustments, but I would need to decrease my calories just a bit. This site all so offers a calorie counter, which I would need as I’m not very good at documenting these types of things on paper nor even understanding what it is I’m documenting.

  My wife is a lifetime member of Weight Watchers, but that just doesn’t work for me.

  The next step of courses to keep a diet journal or a food diary depending on how you want to look at it. That would definitely not be a problem for me as I journal just about everything that I do.

  I haven’t been terribly concerned about calories since I was in the military. Back then we had to worry about ensuring that we consume enough calories each day when we were in the field.That was about consuming lots of calories as opposed to today where I’m looking to consume the right amount of calories for a more sedentary lifestyle, and if I can eat healthier along the way, then even better.

• THE PREVENTION OF DISEASE BY ELIMINATION OF DISEASE CARRIERS
  
  

  When speaking of preventative medicine, we include the methods used by physicians, state and federal government boards of health, etc.., to prevent the spread of disease, the most important is the work done by past and present men of science and their willing patients who have given their time, labor, and in many cases, their lives to discover the underlying causes of disease, for the latter, like everything else in the world, has its reasons for existence.  Thus it can readily be understood the disease cannot be properly prevented when the underlying cause is unknown.

  Before does section of the human body and experiments on animals were permitted, man’s knowledge of his own body and disease, its causes and symptoms and treatment was mere guesswork.  Thus in past centuries the arteries are thought to contain error instead of blood; disease was believed to be a curse from heaven or the king and everything lay in the hands of the gods as to whether a person recovered or not.

  This in the last century, man began to awaken from his sleep and by means of the discovery of the microscope and the permission to experiment upon living animals more and more the cause of disease, its transference from one animal to another and then from animal to man and man to man was tried, and it was the same symptoms occurred in the animal or man into which the blood of the animals suffering from the original disease had been placed by injection into their blood, etc.  By these methods gradually the cause of disease was found to be due to the presence of minute living bodies called bacilli or germs, etc., but it’s which were only visible when the blood, spit, urine, etc., of the sufferer was examined under the microscope and from this beginning are due the marvelous results of the present day in the prevention, treatment and cure of disease.

  Health.-disease can be prevented by the individual doing everything in his power to keep in the best physical condition.  Disease is a common enemy of all of us, waiting to destroy, but nature is in league with us if we obey her laws.  With a normal body and pureblood should the invader arrived, the fight is on our side.  But once the body is weakened by heredity as a result of our parents or forefathers neglect of the body, through the abuse of alcohol, tobacco or in moral living, lack of exercise, over eating and loss of sleep, overworked or lack of work or improper food, then will the soil be fertile for the planting of the germs of disease.  When exposed and once planted the flight will be in their favor, as the rundown body will not have sufficient vitality to overcome the invader and sickness and death result.

  So this is the kick off of the preventative medicine section.  I find this particular section interesting as it talks about the benefits of animal testing, which was very important in the early evolution of medicine and science but today is viewed much differently than it was then.  These days we’d perform a review of these procedures much differently than we did then, just like we review people differently such as Alli.