Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
eat of inflam-mation, and when itis, pains in that re-gion and palpitationof the heart are gen-erally experienced,together with all thesymptoms which aresupposed to charac-terize a disease ofthe heart itself. Palpitation of theheart may be in-duced by variouscauses. There maybe too great an ex-penditure of nerv- n .-, • THE HEART. OUS lorce upon tnis aj^tne left and rf^ ventricles; c,«,/ the aorta; ftorgan, and when this h, i, the innominata, left carotid, and left subclavian ; fc, theis the Case it is gen- pulmonary artery which is given off from the right ventricle, erally found that it is at the expense of other organs. When the liver becomes torpid, it will often be discovered that the nervous stimuli belonging to that organ, have in some way been diverted to the heart, resulting, of course, in the inactivity of the former, and the excessive activity of the latter. Persons subject to cold extremities often have all the nervous forces and vascular fluids which should be occupied
Text Appearing After Image:
and conveys the blood to the lungs; I, £, branches of the pul-monary artery distributed to the right and left lungs; wz, »*,the pulmonary veins, which bring the oxygenated bloodfrom the lungs to the left auricle ; n, the right auricle; o, q,the ascending and descending vena? cava?, which return theblood from the general system to the right auricle ; p. veinswhich convey the blood from the liver, bowels, and spleen ;s, the coronary artery which carries blood into the substanceof the heart. 436 DISEASES OF THE HEART. in keeping the feet and limbs warm, acting in and about the heart?,causing the latter to jump and beat unnaturally, violently, and inju-riously. There are affections of the procreative organs, which areattended with such nervous derangements as to give both to themand the heart an undue supply of nervous stimuli. Persons of bothsexes are subject to them, and when they exist all of the other or-gans of the body are robbed to supply this abnormal diversion, whichsets the am

Note About Images