DISEASES FROM MINERAL IMPURITIES IN WATER.
Purifying Ingredients.-since all rivers, spring- and well-waters contain a certain amount of dissolved matters, taken up from the soil through and over which they pass, it becomes a very important consideration to determine what these ingredients are in any particular sample of water, and also the kind and degree of [...]
Quantity of Water Needed.-the quantity of water needed by man and animals must therefore be very carefully calculated. Repeated experiments upon a very extended scale in England have shown that a healthy man requires daily as drink from 2 to 4 pints of water, this amount being in addition to that which is swallowed as [...]
Breathing.–Respiration, or the act of breathing, consists of thealternate inspiration and expiration of air to and from the lungs; in the process of which the lungs themselves are almost passive managements, since their contraction expansion takes place by means of the muscles which surround the chest. The diaphragm or midriff, which, when at rest in [...]
We have seen in the Book of Medicine already that times were very different 100 years ago. The infant mortality rate was much much higher and life expectancy was much lower as well.
As such people had a much different perspective. They often distanced their emotions just a bit from their children. Furthermore, their concerns for [...]
THE LUNGS; THEIR MECHANISM AND WONDERS.
What the Lungs Are.– The lungs!dense looking objects, and yet how li buoyant! This beautiful anatomical chart shows us a front view of the chest and lungs, with the lungs enclosed within the bony basket — work of the chest. The lungs are two large, conical bodies, placed [...]
CHART II
THE INTERNAL WONDERS OF THE HUMAN BODY REVEALED
THE HUMAN BODY AND ITS MARVELOUS PERFECTION
Wonderful Structure of the Body — The human body is the highest form of animal life. It is full of beautiful proportions and divinely symmetrical in shape, form, mould and outline. We look with honest pride and glowing admiration upon the [...]