Emphasis is putting more distress on one word than another.
The chapter on “Physiology” contains much that ought not to be lost to
science:
Physillogigy is to study about your bones stummick and vertebry.
Occupations which are injurious to health are cabolic acid gas which is
impure blood.
We have an upper and lower skin. The lower skin moves all the time and
the upper skin moves when we do.
The body is mostly composed of water and about one half is avaricious
tissue.
The stomach is a small pear-shaped bone situated in the body.
The gastric juice keeps the bones from creaking.
The Chyle flows up the middle of the backbone and reaches the heart
where it meets the oxygen and is purified.
The salivary glands are used to salivate the body.
In the stomach starch is changed to cane sugar and cane sugar to sugar
cane.
The olfactory nerve enters the cavity of the orbit and is developed
into the special sense of hearing.
The growth of a tooth begins in the back of the mouth and extends to
the stomach.
If we were on a railroad track and a train was coming the train would
deafen our ears so that we couldn’t see to get off the track.
If, up to this point, none of my quotations have added flavor to the
Johnsonian anecdote at the head of this article, let us make another
attempt:
The theory that intuitive truths are discovered by the light of nature
originated from St. John’s interpretation of a passage in the Gospel of
Plato.
The weight of the earth is found by comparing a mass of known lead with
that of a mass of unknown lead.
To find the weight of the earth take the length of a degree on a
meridian and multiply by 62 1/2 pounds.
The spheres are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides.
A body will go just as far in the first second as the body will go plus
the force of gravity and that’s equal to twice what the body will go.
Specific gravity is the weight to be compared weight of an equal volume
of or that is the weight of a body compared with the weight of an equal
volume.
The law of fluid pressure divide the different forms of organized
bodies by the form of attraction and the number increased will be the
form.
Inertia is that property of bodies by virtue of which it cannot change
its own condition of rest or motion. In other words it is the negative
quality of passiveness either in recoverable latency or insipient
latescence.
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