The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1899-04-29
DR.. WaIIace's Address Before the
WOman's Club.

CHSuiu'iOi anu hVuthN hSo'tb'ei
blood" AS he spoke entirely with
out notes, it will be impossible to do
full justice to his lecture.
Drawing diagram upon the black
board, DIR. Wallace traced the course
of the blood as it throbbed from the
left ventricle of the heart, over the
grand aorta arch, to be distributed
through the complex network of
arteries, capillaries, and veins,
gathered again, and by the greater
veins, poured into the right auricle of
the heart, and from its ventricle
forced into the lungs, whence, vital
lied and purified, it returns to the
left auricle, and so the wonderful
circle is completed. That wonderful
circle has throbbed through the brain
and heart of every human creature,
since God first breathed on clay, yet
was only fully traced little over
two hundred years ago, when Harvey
endangered his career by declaring
that arteries were not air passages but
conveyed the blood from the heart.
His claims to originality are not I'M
challenged, especially by the national
vanity of Italy, but are fairly
grounded.
mo truth has to art or to science
been given
But brows have ached for it and souls
tOiled and striven,
And many have tOiled and many
have iailed"-
and the efforts, not fruilless, for
no honest, earnest effort is in
vain, but unsuccessful, made by
thinkers, from the earliest times, to
solve the problem of the circulation,
forms one of the most interesting and
instruct e chapters in the history of
the empire sciences. Servetus would
probably haveforstalled Harvey, hal
he not been distracted by more fatal
controversy with the bigotry and
brutality of his age. Proof, amusing
or humiliating, of how knowledge
and ignorance can co-eXist. At the
close of a paper, which, in' the six
tenth century, almost solved the
MYSTERY of the circulation, he adds
and the "devil takes the same course
as the blood, when he enters the body
to lay siege to the SOUL"
Dr. Wallace called attention to the
,lf.evident, but little respected, fact
that the heart is the most, indeed the
only, constantly worked organ in the
body; and should, in consequence
having no idle time for rest or re
pairs, be as little over-exerted Of
fatigued as possible. He added thai
the habit of standing ON the feet fol
hours, or of running up and dowr
stairs is injurious to any one.
Since constant mental strain o.
friction and abnormal excitement
sometimes produces, or at leas
develops, heart disease, and always
augments it, self-cOntrol and want o
morbid self-consciousness, inheren
properties OF all perfect mental OF
physical health, should be especially
cultivated by those with tendency t.
heart troubles. A..
The office OF the blood is two-fol(
to convey to the different parts o
the body the material from which
the tissues are built up, and to re
move from the system etfete matte
that, if left, would ferment t.
deadliest poison. Healthy life is
therefore, only possible when tn
blood is sufficiently supplied will
healthy building material for organs
flesh, bones, and nerves, is in cOndi
ton to receive and distribute thu
same, i. e., when the circulation j
normal, and, lastly, when the BLOOD
meets in the lungs sufficient OXYGEN
AS DIR. Wallace dwelt on the las
point, the women recalled ant
deduced new corOllaries from Il,
lectures they had already heard OF
ventilation and pure air. Tn
second condition he dismissed witt
the few practical suggestions we hav
quoted concerning the not unneces
sary taxing of heart action but, OF
the first, he dwelt at length clearl.
explaining that healthy blood sup
ply depended upon suitable food