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Title: Fowler's works on education and self-improvement, cultivation of the memory and intellect, on matrimony, hereditary descent, its laws and facts, natural religion, temperance and tight lacing : all founded on phrenology & physiology
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Fowler, O. S. (Orson Squire), 1809-1887
Subjects: Phrenology Physiology
Publisher: New York : Fowler
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
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is secreted by the liver, ui.irked Liv.) and the other comingfrom the pancreas or sweet bread—the two converting it into a milkysubstance which contains all the properties of blood, except the oxygenreceived from the air. Exposed to air it turns red. As the food passesalong the intestines, (those crooked folds marked i i i,) it is assorted,the refuse part continuing along the intestinal canal till it is rejected inthe form of foeces, and the nourishing properties being taken up by thelacteals, vessels that have little mouths like, opening into them, which,uniting together, carry the nutrition along up near the back bone till itempties it into the heart, where, mixing with, it is converted into blood;and is sent by the heart, first to the lungs, to be oxygenated or chargedwith vitality, and then to be received back into the heart and sent roundthe whole system on its life-imparting mission. If the digestion be bad,this blood is of course imperfect, or perhaps loaded with disease; for
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EFFECTS OF LACING ON THE STOMACH. 5 when food lays long in the stomach without being digested, it ferments,that is, decays or rots, and thus engenders vast quantities of corruption,which, entering the blood, carry disease to all portions of the system,escaping by slow degrees through the lungs, and by insensible perspira-tion. Hence the importance of having good food, and that perfectlydigested ; and, when digestion is imperfect, of restoring it again to pow-erful and healthy action. The heart, by every pulsation, propels the blood along the arteries,which continue to divide and subdivide, till they become too small to beseen by the naked eye. They can be traced into subdivisions still moreminute by the aid of the microscope, but the most powerful optical in-struments cannot trace them to their termination, so infinitely small andnumerous are their ramifications. Indeed, the finest point that can bemade cannot be inserted in the flesh without penetrating them. It is inthese inconceiva

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