Danger in Farmhouses from Polluted Water. -- Of course, the same conclusion holds good for country farmhouses or dwellings when, from motives of convenience, although there is space enough and to spare, but a short distance is interposed between the sides of the hole which is called the well, and which furnishes the drinking water, and the other hole nearby which is called the cesspit, and used as a receptacle for filthy, often poisonous, excrement. Moreover, there are no doubt many instances where, owing to the inclination of beds of sand or gravel, strata of rock and so forth, impurities of these and other dangerous varieties may be carried, by underground currents, much further than the distances which have been mentioned as measured upon the surface of the earth area in other words, a cesspool on a hillside, 500 feet or more away from a well, may infect the water of the latter, if underground currents favor such contamination.
We have previously talked about the potential for typhoid and other contagions that can be carried by livestock and transmitted to humans. Shielding the water supply both of people from animals and animals from people was known 100 years ago, but not always well documented unlike the dangers of mesothelioma or many other deadly situations that people could create themselves.
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!
- Healthy Hawaii Vacation
As I take a break from the book of medicine, I’d like to suggest something that has probably helped my peace of mind and my health and even my energy level more than possibly anything I’ve done in the last seven years.
It was a vacation to Hawaii.
You won’t find something like that in a medical book, but the concept of getting away from everything and relaxing is something that is widely recommended and historically has been recommended by many doctors. There’s something special about Hawaii, however it is difficult to describe.
About seven years ago I took a vacation to Hawaii and stayed in a beach condo. We rented a nice little place on the beach and stayed there for about 10 days.
It was a fantastic experience. Just recovering from jet lag by sleeping in the beach breeze was an experience that I still haven’t forgotten and probably never will. I learned to love mahi-mahi, I hiked up Diamond Head and several other small mountains in the area. Plus I went jogging several miles each day.
Oh and on my healthy Hawaiian vacation I also spent a lot of time in the water!
I am definitely going to go back to Hawaii someday soon. Knowing what I know today, I will probably try something a little different but stay focused on the same theme. I’ve been researching why Makena oceanfront condo and based on some of the pictures I’ve seen I think I’m definitely going to try them out.
Soaking up Ecotourism in Hawaii
While we were there the first time, we soaked up a lot of the local culture and the landscape.
In retrospect that seems essential to the concept of having a healthy Hawaii vacation. after all it wouldn’t be that healthy if we visited and harmed the environment or impaired the culture or did something damaging. It seems to me to be very important to visit a place and leave it as good as you found it and if possible maybe a little better.
This kind of touches on the theme of ecotourism. Ecotourism is the concept of visiting a place, and helping the local ecosystem and the local culture and possibly the local economy.
We did all those things when we visited, and that helped us make a longer lasting connection during our vacation. The last thing you want is to stay in some cold corporate hotel, the type of place that you can find anywhere in the world only to walk away from the vacation more drained than when you started. Kind of like eating at McDonalds.
We soaked up the culture and the history and the beauty of the environment and that’s what made our vacation special.
- Nature’s Treasures Open to Man
Nature’s Treasures Open to Man.- all this is a very complicated and diversified process, the necessity for which can only be explained on the hypothesis that nature, in her exhaustless munificence, has opened her proud domains, and poured forth to man the treasures of every land and every sea for food; the cornfields waved their golden grain for him; the wheat, rye, oats, corn, maize, rice, each different, yet highly nutritious and sufficing; the Palm, the date, the banana, the fig, a pineapple, spread out a delicious harvest on the air; the luscious apple, peer, beach, plum, cherry, tempt his ready hand; the potato, the beat, the turnip, tomato, cabbage, the pea, cauliflower, and a thousand other good things, incite his appetite, whilst to this feast is added the flesh of birds, of oxen, of sheep, of swine and of fish; that before the waving wheat and corn, the flesh of other animals, the fruits and farinaceous foods, the running water, the luscious oyster and fish, etc., can be transformed into the refined in spiritual organization of man, it must be thoroughly prepared by the several steps in the digestive process — then, and only then, is it permitted to enter into and co-mingle with the highly complex, nutritious and life-sustaining fluid, the blood.
Wow, now that was really a mouthful. I thought I would never finish all of those extra long lists that attempted to catalog everything that was possible to be from each of the food groups in a single sentence. You may not realize it but that entire paragraph up above was one single sentence or as any of my teachers throughout any of my classes with state, that was one great big freaking run on!
Absolutely ridiculous the number of semicolons and comas that were used throughout that entire mess. I think I probably put on 5 pounds just reading that great big run on a sentence about food. I have to buy a new can of Miracle burn just to speed up my metabolism. I have to wake up in the morning and compete in an Ironman competition just get back on an even keel. Regardless Dragon Naturally Speaking definitely had a lot of fun with that one!