Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-06-22
For the Herald.l
The Gospel of Respiration. ''
BY A PHYSICIAN.

jaw, trachea, eppiglOttIs, and uvula,
which are wonderfully and harmoni-
ously combined in the human mouth
and throat for the purpose of produc-
ing sound, constitute larynx, or or
gan of sound, only parts of which are
diseoverable in birds and animals
And this larynx, or organ of speech, is
designed to cooperate with the lungs
IN the discharge of its office; and its
office is to present to the human ear
invisible hero glyphical representatives
of ideas; and all this is under the ex-
elusive control of the inward spirit
The lungs are designed to attract
from the atmosphere, which pervades
nature, both physical and spiritual ell
ements of vitality. 1 say attract, be-
cause thelungs notonly aetas bellows
in receiving and expelling air. but they
attract and repel many elements which
they inhale on electrical or galvanic
principles. The truth will unfold
as we proceed. It is well known that
there resides in the human system
large qualities of iron. 1t is this in
gredient which gives to the arterial
blood its fiery redness, to the venous
i blood its blue color, and to the spirit
ual blood which enters into the eye
balls, the teeth, the nails, bones, &C.,
its exceeding whiteness. 1t is iron
which causes the central parts of the
brain to give off coruscations of a
blush white, and occasions its various
, convolutions to emit colors of redish-
gray. 1t is through the agency of this
mineral that the world of electrical,
magnetical and spiritual relations are
maintained in the organic systems. 1t
is well to understand that the spirit
ual blood, to which have alluded, is
a refinement and extraction of all the
elements which constitute the arterial
and venous blood. But the cause OF
the white blood going TO it's proper
: destinations is to be found, first in the
innate elective affinities of its atoms
and second, in the magnetic pole:
which the iron assists to estab
lish and maintain in all portions O
the organism. The anatomy and phys
iology of the lungs are wonderful :
= Their vesicular, vascular, bronchial
and parenchymatous substances ane
structures are indescribably well ad
justed and adapted to their ultimat
- ase and mission. The pulmonary OF
gaDization of man is superior to tina
! possessed by any animal; because i
is a combination of the exceIIencies O
all such structures in nature. Th
very fact that the vesicular substanc
y ultimates in air chambers that tn
c. vascular inslnuates itself into thos
chambers with the precision of net
,p work; that the bronchial ramify froT
the bronchia through the lungs, ult
mating in the air-cells; that parenchy
S. ma is the magnetic substance of cor
neetion between those cells, or cer
tres, of polar attractions; and The faC
that this whole structure is in harmC
ny with the heart through the pulmC
8, nary veins, and with the brain, thr,
the great sympathetic nerve and inte
mediate representatives-the lympha
y. ic glands-is sufficient to fix the col
NOT viction that the lungs were designo
to receive, and assist to organize a
mospherical elements into vital al
moving principles.
- AS the lungs are mediators betwee
the brain and the air from which it t
ceives many vitalizing elements, so
I. the heart a mediator between the lun:
. and the various systems in the O
ganism. The commercial eXchang
in the economy are harmoniously CO
Quoted. The lungs receive not on
air, but blood, and the heart attrac
= not only many of the interior essene
of the air with the blood, but forward
like faithful merchant, its posse
sions to the ruler of the empire-t
ing brain-which is said to receive twel
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;are to any other organ. The inter-
structure of the heart is exquisite
adapted to the reception and circu
If ton of the blood and vital essences.
1t acts not only like pump, but ma
netically it attracts and repels, e
g wherefore its dual arrangements
Why is the heart made with two auru
and ventricles with ligaments to &C
inc meet these apartments, and with an
easement or perieardium to def
their movements, if positive and n,
es5s asSs ative principles are involved in its CT
luesdt nad struction and action?
AS the heart is mediator betwe
: the lungs and brain, so is the stomac
- mediator between nutritive substan
which make blood, and the heart VIII
throws it to all parts of the body. ]
mouth is an incipient stomach; {
y Z the saliva is gastric juice undevelc
) ed. The process of digestion &C
mences in the mouth And the use
the stomach is to prepare food, just
the lungs do the air for the distri