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...feet of air every day, that his excretions of carbonic acid may not pollute the air. Pleurisy not only affects the lungs but the diaphragm, which is the principal agent in drawing air into the lungs. The enlargement of the pleura forces the air out of the air cells, thin walls are brought into contact with each other, and the whole lung in an airless condition may be pressed into the back part of the chest alongside of the back bone, where it lies as useless, as far as breathing is concerned, as a strip of leather. The same results...
...parts, and goes to the right and left sides. Each of these enters the lung on its own side, and then splits up into a number of smaller branches. The smallest bronchial tubes at last end in little sacs which are air cells. The walls between them are very thin, and in these walls are the capillary vessels into which the artery bringing the blood from the right side of the heart breaks up. So the blood flowing through them is exposed to the air on both sides. In early life the lungs have a rose color...
...methods pursued by some of the reporters of the Boston dailies in their accounts of recent accidents at Harvard. We think that this letter requires no comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between the legitimate gathering of news, and the sensational writing which too often is made to appear as the account of actual occurrences...
...Knowing that to obtain a copy of the paper is not practicable, the ingenious young man, whose conscience and knowledge are both at a low ebb, prepares himself for the battle. That is, he makes his "cribs." An old-fashioned "crib" is made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held...
...Lord, nothing is hid from thin eye. Thou nasty look down through its comely Mansard roof, and through its thick walls of brick and mortar. Thou knowest its hideous incompleteness within. There is no floor upon which to walk through its lovely corridors or its magnificent halls, no winding stairs by which to ascend its heights, no plaster to hide its grinning walls, no seats, no bell, no furnace, no musical instrument, no library...