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:
- Composition of the Chest
Composition of the Chest– the chest is composed of bones, cartilages, and ligaments. Its natural form is that of a cone diminishing upward; and it affords lodgment of the heart, lungs and large blood vessels. Its walls are formed posteriorly by the seven dorsal bones of the spinal column, and the ribs as far as the angle, the sides by the body of the ribs, and front by the ribs, the costal cartilages and the breast bone.
This section is about as exciting as you’d expect from a medical textbook. It’s almost unique in the fact that it has no items comments or issues that don’t seem like they would appear in a medical textbook. Some of the descriptions seem rather basic, but even that’s a bit of a stretch to find something unique about this section.
- Circuit and Color of Blood
Circuit of the Blood. –the blood thus purified passes back to the heart to go on its circuit through the body, every organ of which renews its energy and vigor from the Magician’s fiery wand, pure, healthy blood; while the air exhaled carries off the impurities.
Change in color of blood. –during this process the blood changes from a dark purple to a bright red. Pure air is the cheapest necessity and the greatest luxury of life. Let it not be the rarest. The relative proportion of the respirations to the pulsations of the heart is about 1 to 4 1/2 or 5; and the quantity of air required to keep the blood pure is very great. Indeed, respiration is the falling weight, event spring, which keeps the clock of life in motion; the inspirations and expirations are the strokes of the pendulum which regulate it.
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I have a new theory. Actually maybe this is my first theory. I think the authors may delve into flowery language and the peculiar like analogies whenever they don’t know what they’re talking about. I could be wrong I like to give the authors the benefit of the doubt. However it seems that whenever they lacked substance and factor knowledge, their prose gets a little loose.I’ve also heard that it is a urban legend today that blood has two different colors. If that is truly an urban legend and blood does not have the color of purple and red, and this book might actually be one of possibly many sources that helped to create that legend, which may not be all that urban after all. Maybe more of a historical legend.
Wikipedia today provides an excellent description of what the color of blood is and why it is that color. They describe a situation of optical illusions that led scientists and doctors as evidenced by the Library of Health to believe that veinous blood deprived of its oxygen was actually ‘purple’ or blue. Sheesh
- The Hand- Its Mechanism and Wonderful Endowments- Engraving of The Hand
The Hand; Its Mechanism and Wonderful Endowments.
Engraving of The Hand. – to tell one that this exquisite colored engraving represents a human hand seems almost like questioning his sanity. Yet such as; but how few there are who can give an intelligent account of the hand, describe its beautiful arrangements and complex mechanism, we’re told it’s wonderful endowments. Smaller compass, compact and structure, yet so skillfully arranged or its blood vessels and nerves, that they form a complete network over its surface so minute are they in their distribution that the point of the finest needle cannot penetrate any part of the hand without piercing quite a number of them. The hand is the great organ of touch and pretension in the instrument which distinguishes man in the large class of mammals, since he is the only animal which possesses to perfect and complete hands.
I just don’t think I have ever heard the human hand referred to before in health, science, anatomy or biology as a mechanism, like its a toilet or tankless water heaters or some elaborate dog feeding gizmo that you’d find in a mad scientists home in a bad Michael J Fox movie.
OK, so it wasn’t that bad!