The cheapest and most nutritious food for charitable institutions and the poor : being the result of an inquiry, made by desire, on the food supplied to the Hill Street Female Refuge / by C.H.F. Routh.

  • Routh, C. H. F. (Charles Henry Felix), 1822-1909
Date:
1854
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Credit: The cheapest and most nutritious food for charitable institutions and the poor : being the result of an inquiry, made by desire, on the food supplied to the Hill Street Female Refuge / by C.H.F. Routh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    tions of this water, whether for the movement of the machinery, or the preparation of the articles made, and eject their refuse back again into the stream. 'The river itself receives its waters from one or more tributary streams, and finally much changed, empties its waters by one or more branches into the sea. So it is with man. The blood is the river—the more solid portions of the body, the adjacent country—the manufactories, the secreting and excreting organs, the liver, sweet- bread, &c.—the tributary streams, particular portions of the alimentary canal, and the lungs, the one receiving food, the other atmospheric air—the branches by which the river empties itself are portions of the same alimen- tary canal and lungs, the perspiratory glands, the kidneys and its appendages, &c. The sea is the external world, into which all indigestible and refuse matters are ejected. The above example, given to elucidate the general plan of man’s physical structure, fails however in some points. First. The river is exposed everywhere to atmos- pheric influence. The blood is always enclosed in certain vessels (called arteries and veins), and it is only in the ultimate ramifications of these, still in smal] tubes, (called capillary vessels from their size) that they are exposed to the air. This is chiefly done in the lungs, perhaps also in the skin. 2. The river moves along its course as its leve' becomes lower and lower. The blood is propelled on- ward by a special hollow organ (the heart). By the contraction of the left half of this organ, the blood i; propelled into a large tube (the aorta) which gradually divides and subdivides in smaller and smaller tubes and in this way the blood is carried into every part o the body. These tubes are the arteries, which termi- nate in small capillary vessels. In these capillary vessels the blood is chemically changed and convertec