On diet and regimen in sickness and health, Issue 170

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Page 180 - However ordinary daylight may permit it to disguise itself, a sufficiently powerful beam causes the air in which the dust is suspended to appear as a semi-solid rather than as a gas. Nobody could, in the first instance, without repugnance, place the mouth at the illuminated focus of the electric beam and inhale the dirt revealed there. Nor is the disgust abolished by the reflection that, although we do not see the nastiness, we are churning it in our lungs every hour and minute of our lives.
Page 165 - ... showed a more rapid contraction of the ventricles, but less power than in the alcoholic period. The brandy acted, in fact, on a heart whose nutrition had not been perfectly restored.
Page 164 - The first day of Alcohol gave an excess of 4 per cent., and the last of 23 per cent. ; and the mean of these two gives almost the same per-centage of excess as the mean of the six days. "Admitting that each beat of the heart was as strong during the alcoholic period as in the water period (and it was really more powerful), the heart on the last two days of Alcohol was doing one-fifth more work. ' ' Adopting the lowest estimate which has been given of the daily work of the heart, viz., as equal to...
Page 181 - But after some time an obscure disc appears upon the beam, the darkness of which increases, until finally, towards the end of the expiration, the beam is, as it were, pierced by an intensely black hole, in which no particles whatever can be discerned. The air, in fact, has so lodged its dirt within the passage to the lungs as to render the last portions of the expired breath absolutely free from suspended matter.
Page 165 - Adopting the lowest estimate which has been given of the daily work done by the heart, viz., as equal to 122 tons lifted one foot...
Page 164 - ... per cent. The first day of alcohol gave an excess of 4 per cent., and the last of 23 per cent. ; and the mean of these two gives almost the same percentage of excess as the mean of the six days.

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