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:

• Blood-vessels of the Liver
  
  

  Blood-vessels of the Liver.  –.  The blood-vessels of the liver are the hepatic artery and veins, and the portal vein; the lymphatic vessels are numerous, and the nerves are supplied from the pneumogastric, the phrenic and the hepatic plexus.  The liver, therefore, receives two kinds of blood: the arterial, by means of the hepatic artery, and the venous, from the portal vein, from which the bile is principally formed.  The bile is a dark golden fluid, of extremely bitter taste, of which 3 pounds is secreted daily.  When not used in digestion is stored away in the gall-bladder; a fine view of the location of which we have in this chart,  the action of the bile on food, but not fully understood, is necessary for perfect digestion.

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  Again there is a reference to 3 pounds daily.  So now I’m wondering if the 3 pounds of bile that our bodies are supposedly creating everyday is related to the 3 pounds of food or 3 pounds of liquid that were supposed to be consuming.  Maybe it’s half-and-half, 1 1/2 pounds of food and one half pounds of water generate 3 pounds of bile secreted from our liver.

  I wouldn’t bet your vacation home Orlando on it.  I’m also curious as to whether or not the author actually tasted bile from a liver.  In many ways I’m glad I was not a scientist a hundred or 200 years ago. . . .

• The Fibula and Sciatic Nerve
  
  

  the fibula.  — not only does this second bone-the fibula-get additional string in support to the lake proper, but it likewise increases the bony area or surface of the lake, to which its powerful muscular lovers are attached.

  The Sciatic Nerve.- the large sciatic nerve, its position, course and distribution, is graphically outlined, and as we look upon this point, since the court, we are deeply impressed with the force and truth of what Shakespeare makes one of his characters, to moan say:

  “________the cold sciatica

  Cripples our senators, but their limbs may halt

  as plainly as their manners.”

  Now I do understand that this is not terribly exciting reading at this point in time.  Enough to let a person get some sleep at a hotel trying to offer up time share real estate Branson options, I’m sure.

• Short Hiatus Before Kicking off the new History of the Book of Medicine Material
  
  

  I’m in Laughlin Nevada this weekend on some unrelated business.  I mention it only because yesterday I caught a headline in the office that stated that researchers had determined that the diet of the expectant mother can determine the sex of their child.

  I found that interesting because I recently went through the Book of Medicine and highlighted some of the more interesting passages and concepts.  One of those covered the diet and exercise practices that the father and mother should adhere to if they wanted to influence the sex of their child.  When the book was written, they only had statistics to go on and very few testable procedures.  Plus, it wasn’t like they could turn things over to a clinical laboratory service and outsource part of their work 100 years ago.

  So when I get back, I look forward to sharing some of the crazy ideas in the book, and some of the crazy ideas that were once debunked and now considered cutting edge.