The Codicil to "my will" for the healthy and the sick : containing chapters on the anatomy and care of the human body, gymnastic exercises, first help in accidents, cooking recipes, medicinal plants and the cure of diseases.

  • Kneipp, Sebastian, 1821-1897.
Date:
1897
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Credit: The Codicil to "my will" for the healthy and the sick : containing chapters on the anatomy and care of the human body, gymnastic exercises, first help in accidents, cooking recipes, medicinal plants and the cure of diseases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    Respiration or the act of breathing is performed about sixteen times a minute; but during rapid move- ment such as brisk walking, running, mountaineering and the like and also in some diseases this increases. Healthy children breathe quicker when at. rest. The Larynx and the Voice. The voice is produced by expiration in the larynx which last with its gristly formation perceptible, at the neck, encloses the vocal cords or bands of elastic tissue which run close together from front to back. In relaxed condition however during rest they lie so far apart that the air breathed in can pass freely through them; they can be brought closer together by means of little mus- cles in the larynx. By the air breathed out, and which streams past, they are set swinging, and according to the tension of the cords high or deep tones are pro- duced. With the help of the organs lying in the mouth, for example, the tongue, lips, palate and teeth the voice is impelled to speech. The Nobler Organs of the Human Body. The Heart and the Circulation of the Blood. By inspiration part of the air, in the interior of the lungs, mixes with the blood which flows uninterruptedly through the human body during its whole life and is called the circulation of the blood. The blood is liquid, red and contains the colourless blood-water and many minute corpuscles. Many of them have a coin-like appearance and are red, while others are ball-like and colourless. For this reason they are distinguished as red and white blood-corpuscles.