Reviewing the Medical Books and Journals that constituted Medical understanding a century back.

History of the Book of Medicine

December 28th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

The Contaminated Ice Pond

The Contaminated Ice Pond.  -- both the house in which the ice was stored in the water from the melted ice gave off a decidedly disagreeable or even offensive odor.  Finally, a visited upon from which the ice and then gathered disclose the fact that much of the water and it was dark colored, file and highly contaminated with filthy marsh mud and decomposing sawdust.  Chemical analysis showed that both it and the suspected eyes contain a large excess of organic and volatile impurities, including four one hundredths of a grain per gallon of albuminoid ammonia.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

  • The Knee-Pan

    The Knee-Pan.-The patella toward me pan is seen held firmly in position, giving greater strength and security to this important joint.  Around the ankle is observe the annular ligament, finding the long silvery thongs or tendons of the muscles of the legs, thus preventing their displacement.  It also towards security and string to the ankle joint, but not interfering with its elasticity in motion.  The foot shows us the natural position in shape in which the toes should be when encased in a boot or shoe.

    This section relatively speaking does a decent job of sticking to the facts and avoids excessive and irrelevant language like I avoid beer pong tables.

  • Body Sculpture Turns to Lipo Sculpture

    There was a time when people carved the human figure and marble or would grieve and dipped it in a precious metal like gold or bronze.  Michelangelo’s David might even be considered an example of man’s attempt to sculpt the perfect person.

    That was hundreds of years ago and today we are reaching a point where we can literally sculpt the perfect person while they are alive.  I’m not talking about anything macabre, I’m talking about the science of plastic surgery.

    Today people have the option of going to a surgeon to have imperfections in the body corrected.  They can seek los angeles cosmetic surgery experts to help them correct or crooked nose or improve a smile or he raise harder and wrinkles and provide a net or talk or boost.

    With the invention of the technique known as liposuction, and all of the advances that are made in this technique year after year and month after month, people can now scope their body to fit the mold and model in their minds eye.  People travel from many different places to have their figure or their body re-formed by the hands of a beverly hills liposculpture Doctor.

    Within a short amount of time in a short amount of recovery they can go back out of the world literally a new person.

    This type of concept would have been completely foreign to people hundred years ago.  Surgery in general was extremely risky a hundred years ago, and it would have been completely impractical and even dangerous back then to consider cosmetic surgery.  It’s amazing what a hundred years can do for this particular science.  Surgery is still very serious and dangerous, but science and medicine have improved so drastically that the mortality rate for general surgery is nowhere near what it used to be and now doctors can even perform smaller surgeries with techniques that are becoming less and less invasive every single year.

  • Bones of the Face – Spinal Collumn

    Bones of the Face — the bones of the face shown in this plate are the nasal bone, forming the arch of the nose, and malar, which gives prominence to the cheek, the upper jaw, containing the upper teeth, in the lower jaw, containing the under teeth.

    The Spinal Column — that portion of the spinal column noticed in the illustration consists of the cervical vertebrae.  Each vertebra is composed of a body, with seven spinous processes projecting from it.  The body is perforated by a ring, through which is seen running the spinal cord, giving off nerves between each separate bone.  A ring of cartilage is seen inserted between each separate vertebra, the object of which is to prevent any jar reaching the brain when we run, jump, walk or stumble.

    This wraps up the discussion of chart 1.  Nothing sticks out at me from the section as we finish the description of chart 1.  As a possible exception in the fact that they’ve ended this section without any conclusion for follow-on or marks.  It seems that the author often times took extra steps to say more than was necessary in insert their awe inspired view of the world on the reader and seems to have forgotten to take the opportunity to close out this section with lofty language.  I’m sure we’ll get a larger taste of this in the sections and chapters in books to follow.

 

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