Chapter 5

DISEASES OF THE CHEST.

Where Confined--Consumption--Can Consumption Be Cured--Consumption Described--No Time for Surrender--Cerebral Spinal Fluid--How to Destroy Deadly Bombs of Decay--Battle of Blood for Life--Miliary Tuberculosis--Conversion of Bodies Into Gas--Forming a Tubercle--Breeding Contagion--The Seeds of Disease--Generating Fever--Whooping Cough--Clouds and Lungs Are Much Alike--The Wisdom of Nature--Water Formed in Lungs--The Law of Fives--Feeble Action of Heart--The Heart--From Neck to Heart--Dyspersia or Imperfect Digestion. Page 68