Word: liquids
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...otherwise, but eat wholesome, well cooked food, what you want and as much as you want. Leave the consideration of your work when at meals and take them in agreeable company. Water is our natural drink; tea is foremost among artificial drinks of the English race. This latter liquid contains 26 per cent. of tannic acid and a very small amount of nitrogen. It is an excitant of respiration, induces perspiration, and cools the body. In reference to nutrition, we may say that tea increases waste, since it promotes the transformation of food without supplying nutriment. The best time...
Saliva, the first modifying agent which affects the food, is secreted by three sets of glands in the mouth, in variously estimated amounts of from seven to seventy ounces. This liquid is thoroughly mixed with the food by the process of mastication. The secretion of saliva is increased by tobacco, diminished by alcohol, and by violent excise and fear. The saying, "his tongue clove to the roof of his mouth from fear," is a physiological fact...
...that it is really hot down there, some say that it reminds them of the dark continent, and some are even more specific, and call it Africa. They have both a Plato and a Persephone down there. Great chaldrons may be seen, presumably filled with some strange liquid or concoction, to judge from the fearful rumbling boiling sound that comes forth. Bones and skeletons of every conceivable kind of animals are there; dark holes and passages, steam from unknown recesses, the clanking of iron, and the roaring of fires are everywhere met with. Indeed, what a place this is ! What...
...shown when a microscopic examination of the blood of a healthy person is made. The fact is then developed that the blood corpuscules are ranged regularly in rows, but in an habitual user of tobacco these corpuscules are not ranged in order but are apparently confused, and the liquid which supports them is much thinner. So that, for instance, a cut in the hand of a man who uses the weed requires a much longer time to heal than a cut in the hand of one who does not. Tobacco acts first as an irritant, then has no effect...
...Subjects: 1. Does the excellence of the artist depend upon the excellence of the man? 2. Comment upon the following sentence: "Omnes legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus." (Cicero, pro Cluentio). 3. What are the grounds for supposing that the interior of the earth is in a liquid state? 4. Jefferson as a statesman. 5. Is Mr. Henry James a true delineator of American character...