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Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e quantities of animalelectricity are also generated bythe alkalies and acids of the ani-mal organism. The mucousmembranes, or linings of thecavities, are continually excret-ing a semi-fluid called alkali, andthe serous membranes, or outercoverings of the same, an aque-ous or watery fluid, called acid,k and according to the testimonyof Dr. Bird, if these fluids areso placed as to be connected byparietes of an animal membrane,or a porous diaphragm, a currentof electricity is evolved. Hence, we find that not onlyare our stomachs generatingelectricity, but we are inhalingit by our lungs, and our pores,and the external or serous, andinternal or mucous surfaces,united as they arc by naturalparietes and porous diaphragms,are producing it in large quantities. As it is produced, or enters thesystem, it is so modified as to be made fit for the uses of the body. The brain is as industriously distributing this vital electricitythrough the system, as the heart is in circulating the blood, and too
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PEOF. BRAINS TELEGRAPH. THE CAUSES OF DISEASE. 31 much, or too little, given to any particular organ, produces diseasetherein. The complete withdrawal of nervo-electricity from anypart paralyzes it, so that it has neither sense nor motion. If with-drawn from the motor nerves only, sensation remains, while motionis lost; if from the nerves of sensation only, then motion continues,but sensation is destroyed. If withdrawn from the nerves of specialsense, the power of hearing, seeing, smelling, and tasting is lost; orit may be withdrawn from only one set of the nerves of specialsense, producing some of the foregoing difficulties, without affectingthe other senses. Too little vital electricity given to the liver,renders that organ torpid—too much, causes nervous congestion andinflammation; too little given to the stomach causes nervous dys-pepsia—too much makes the appetite voracious, and induces otherderangements to the digestive machinery; and hence, we see thatto all the organs a pr

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