Diarrhea and Dysentery from Impure Water.  -- the instances of outbreaks of these two diseases from contaminated water supply are very numerous, and probably most persons can recall examples of this kind.  The impurities which produce diarrhea and dysentery are suspended earthy matters, such as are found in most river waters after a rain; suspended animal and vegetable material; salty thing chlorides of Lyme and Magnesia, and nitrate of ammonia and of lime.  Besides the numerous outbreaks traceable to direct sewage contamination, there are several instances recorded of indirect poisoning the water supply from this source, as in the following curious case.

Just as a note about the style of writing or documentation, this paragraph seems to be unnecessary as a stand alone topic.  Instead it is basically a transition paragraph, yet the author chooses to use it as a stand alone sub topic instead of just using it to work his way from one topic to a very slight tangent in the next topic.  This would again seem to reflect the author’s possible motivation for not only being paid by the word but also with a stipend for important bolded topics.  This surely does not seem to be practical like following a guide on replacing coilovers in a car or fixing a plumbing problem, and it must have driven some readers nuts as they used this book in semi-emergencies looking for the answer to serious problems only to be distracted by useless sections like this.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Today’s Medical Assistant – Last Centuries Family Member Care Giver
  
  

  A hundred years ago, the Book of Medicine would have helped to guided anyone in the household capable of reading in the arts of care giving, preventive maintenance and even healing.  Today, every facet of the medical world has a specialization level associated with it from the level of medical assistant to general practice doctors to surgeons.

  These days it also takes a lot more effort.  There are medical assistant school options that provide medical assistant training in courses that can be completed in less than a few months for under a thousand dollars.

  The Book of Medicine was written to provide the general tools that your average person might be confronted with in a health emergency or even to prevent one.  Times have changed significantly and the opportunities to help people in many ways have become greater in number and easier to grab.

• VIEW OF THE LARGE BLOOD-VESSELS, SPLEEN, KIDNEYS AND BLADDER
  
  

  Blood Vessels of the Body.–The blood-vessels of the human body consists of heart, arteries, veins and capillaries.  the heart and its wonders we have already referred to.  In this magnificent chart we are enabled to form some idea of the larger blood-vessels.  We see the main arterial tube of the body — the aorta — from a point where it unites with the arch of the aorta; and in its dissent downward along the spinal column it gives off numerous branches.

  The Arteries.–opposite the fourth lumbar vertebra is seen to split in two, and these divisions are called, from their position, the right and left iliac arteries.  These are seen to divide again into the internal and external iliac arteries, the former of which is distributed to the walls and this are contained in the pelvis, then proceeding to the lower limbs after sending two important branches to the abdominal walls.  The arch of the aorta gives off the innominate artery, which divides and to the right carotid and right subclavian arteries; the left carotid and left subclavian spring direct from the arch of the aorta.  Each carotid artery divides into the external and internal carotid arteries, the former being distributed to the external parts of the face and head; the latter supplies the brain and internal parts of the cranium.  The subclavian arteries supply the upper extremities with blood.

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  These sections are fairly descriptive and provide an apt description of these initial areas covered.  The word innominate did throw me for a loop and I had to go look it up on Wikipedia.

  As a processing point for this blog, I’m going to attempt to speed up my coverage of the book.  So for things to be going a little too slow for my own tastes and I don’t want to grow stale on the topic.  I hope you’ll bear with me, but this may lead to if you additional incorrect translations of the spellings from the book.  I feel the need to get through the book and I suspect I will be making additional passes back to the book at later dates.  If you come across anything that just doesn’t make sense and I haven’t covered already please feel free to leave a comment, I’ll reference again in the book and determine if I’ve made in an accurate translation or if it’s just a peculiar topic as it’s covered in the book itself.

  I don’t expect any extreme mistakes or extra peculiar things to come up such as substituting strange words into context in the book are ascribing people wearing an animal costume or who knows what, but I am using Dragon NaturallySpeaking to translate the book and the software does upon occasion make some strange substitutions and words.

• Vitality of the Heart
  
  

  Vitality of the Heart.  — its vitality is as amazing as its strength.  While life exists this tireless order never stops.  In disease, as long as a flutter of this wondrous organ exists, we know the spark of life is not altogether vanished, and new Hope is begotten that helped me be restored.  Airing such long lives as we sometimes see, the heart has propelled no less than 500,000 tons of blood; and yet, during all this patient, unfaltering and unflinching labor, it is her.  Self as the waste has occurred.

  Heart Rhythms.  –the rhythm of its beats never fails until death breaks into the casket and seizes the ever thriving pendulum at the command of the great Master Workman,  silencing the quivering muscles of the heart and compelling the wheels of like a standstill.

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  This closes out the introduction to the workings of the heart, and the author ends the section talking about heartbeats or heart rhythms, but in doing so doesn’t talk about heart rhythms or heartbeats at all.  Notice the capitalize reference to Master Workman.  I’m sure would’ve been some sort of sacrilege not to capitalize those two words and so they are capitalized.  But it’s still a little bizarre.  Next section were heading into the digestive system, which is probably just as mysterious to the author as the working of the heart!