Word: muscular
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heart consisted of a "right and left heart" joined into one, by a kind of muscular wall. This wall was sometimes lacking from birth, and owing to the imperfect circulation, people thus afficted turned a bright blue; this disease, cyanosis, is very apt to kill the sufferer in a few years. Having located the heart the lecturer proceeded to show how the blood going from the right auricle was passed into the ventricle and then sent travelling over the body. But ignorance of medical terms prevents our describing it at length...
...Americans are the great consumers of water in this condition, it has been called American, or ice-water dyspepsia. Drink should be taken mainly at the end of the meal. Potatoes should be thoroughly cooked so as to be mealy, otherwise the saliva cannot do its whole work. Excessive muscular exertion immediately before or after a meal is injurious, as by this means blood is drawn away from the stomach. The student should put away all thought of study when eating. For a person in health few rules are best, and perhaps the following are as good as any. Give...
...drink, saliva, or any other substance has been carried back past a certain point on the posterior part of the tongue, it is completely out of our power to resist swallowing. After leaving the mouth the food passes through the oesophagus to the stomach, which is a hollow muscular organ, and provided with a number of glands which produce the gastric juice. The muscles of the stomach are described as consisting of three layers. At the lower opening is a muscle called the sphincter, which opens and shuts the outlet into the intestines. The mucous membrane lining the stomach...
...leans more kindly toward the victories of brawn than towards those of mind, and a college year is ever made more memorable by its athletic than by its intellectual victories. In the meanwhile, there are earnest and conscientious students who value college for the mental as well as the muscular training it provides, and that Harvard will have its usual large complement of those who will pursue their studies undisturbed by the triumphs or defeats of the university athletics, goes without saying...
Examinations of Yale freshmen show that the S. S. freshmen are unusually strong in muscular development. The average age of the freshmen is 19 years. - a little younger than...