The body and its health : a book for primary schools / by E.D. Mapother.

  • Edward Mapother
Date:
[1870?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The body and its health : a book for primary schools / by E.D. Mapother. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BiEe is a yellow, soapy fluid, which, as we have seen at p. 30, acts on food. When the liver is sluggish, the bile kept in our blood causes jaundice; but when it ceases suddenly to work, death ensues. The lungs and liver help each other; and a man who has got bilious from sitting some days at work, gets all right again if he climbs a few hills, or walks ten miles. Such is a safer and pleasanter cure than blue pill and black draught. In India those who eat and drink too much and work too little, get big livers. The liver also makes a kind of sugar which gives us heat, and forms it even in animals who take no su^ar or starch in O their food. Urea is a substance of which our muscles and brain throw into the blood about an ounce daily if they are at work. A man with idle muscles and a lazy brain would not form half that. The kidneys strain off this urea dis- solved in water, and if they fail to do so, as in Bright's disease^ it becomes a fatal poison, like opium or spirits. The brain also sends off, according to its work, much or little of salts, called phosphates^ in this fluid. The kidneys lie high up on each side of the loins. They are made up of fine tubes, Avhich take the fluid from the blood-vessels twisted round them. In the fatal disease called diabetes^
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