Chapter 16: The Smiling Edward
With a sense of familiarity, Kraft continued to scroll down. Next is some content that is suitable for being divided into fantasy and fantasy areas.
White liquor, which is considered in the book to be a viscous and cold liquid, is found in the patient's brain and spinal cord, and has the calm, stable qualities that are the basis for the birth of thinking. Therefore, once the white liquor is violated, the person will show a noticeable change in mental status.
It can range from drowsy and drowsy to gibberish and unable to control one's activities. When the white fluid is depleted, it is the final stage where the person will be unconscious and unable to maintain even a minimum of consciousness.
Considering that white liquor is an ice-cold liquid, it follows from this that high heat damages white liquor and constantly depletes it. In order to regain the patient's consciousness, it is necessary to cool down in various ways and promote the production of white fluid.
At the same time, because it was found that the white liquor of some patients with high fever and delirium would turn yellow and turbid, the author felt that the high fever caused the white liquor to change to yellow liquor, thereby reducing the amount of white liquor.
As for why it changed to yellow liquor, it is because yellow liquor is a warm, dry liquid. It is produced in the liver and stored in the gallbladder and is a representation of the body's neutral energy.
This liquid is thought to be related to digestion, and food is dissociated and absorbed in warm yellow liquor, providing the person with the energy necessary to survive.
In addition, the careful author observed a phenomenon in which some patients showed symptoms of rough yellowish skin and yellowish whites of the eyes, which in the traditional theory was caused by too much yellow fluid in the body. However, such patients will have symptoms of malnutrition, edema, anorexia, bloating, and diarrhea after eating greasy food. This is completely in conflict with the theory.
It seems to be a little right, but it's not quite right. Kraft began to scratch his head, and the pen and paper sat next to him for a while, but he still didn't remember a word.
Remember, it feels like a bit of a waste of paper; I don't remember it, but I'm a little unaccustomed to it.
I have to say that although this ancient theory is full of slots, it is actually quite easy to remember because of its simple way of association. As long as no one treats him with this thing, he can watch it for fun.
Finally, looking at the black liquor, it is also a thing that makes Kraft completely unable to find a corresponding existence. It is a heavy fluid that acts as an inhibitor in the body, as opposed to various active properties.
When there is too much black liquor, people show depression and depression, and people who are born with a large proportion of black liquor are generally quiet and restrained, and appear a little indifferent, and such people often do not live long.
All liquids, after gradually losing their properties, are transformed into black liquor, just as everything is about to die. If the black liquor reaches a certain limit, the balance will be completely destroyed, the human body will irreversibly slide towards dead silence, and all physiological activities will be terminated.
This is also thought to be the mechanism of death, i.e., everything moves more or less into the inert, unchanging side until the part of the black liquor breaks through the critical point and ends everything.
According to the different properties of these liquids, it is natural that the author has corresponded the four liquids with the four basic elements according to the idea that man is the core of the world.
The active red liquor corresponds to the fire, that is, the change and the high heat.
White liquor corresponds to water, constantly running but following a fixed path.
Yellow liquor is the same as air flow and wind, and is a mild component with neutral balance.
The black liquor corresponds to the heavy earth, where everything that moves will sleep, and the movement will return to stillness.
In this way, a system was built, and all that remained was to talk about the deductive argument between disease and the change of the four fluids.
"Forget it, let's take a look at the next one." Kraft closed the book and set it aside. He seems to have found the source of the theoretical basis for phlebotomy. Probably because the balance of body fluids has been broken, so we adjust this balance by opening the mouth in different places and putting some points out? Mixed with some of the arguments of letting go of stale blood and excreting harmful factors, it has formed the most popular treatment method at present.
With a bit of a headache, Kraft pulled out the next book.
This is a book "Human Structure", the name may be similar to "Systematic Anatomy", but the church does not allow the use of corpses, and the mainstream of society does not approve of the act of dissecting the body to observe the structure, and such behavior will be burned at the stake.
Therefore, the author of this book is either speculative or a thorn in the side of the court, and the robbers are cowardly compared to him.
But again, in a territory like the port of Wenden, it would be nice for the people of the church to clean up the guano in St. Simon's Square. Not to mention burning at the stake for so many years, there has not been a single torch lit in the square. As long as the author is not dissected on the street, then probably no one cares.
The opening chapter does not go straight to the point, but symbolically expresses that this book is the author's experience based on his own medical experience after studying and comparing a large number of previous works, and is used to save the lives given by the gods, and there is no disrespect for the body of the deceased.
As for what works he referred to, and what kind of medical experience gave him such an understanding, the author said:
It's been so long that I've forgotten about it.
Sure enough, when you open the first picture, you can see that any disclaimer has always been a lie. Although it is not as detailed as the anatomical diagram formed after the great development, this full-body diagram of half skeleton and half attached muscles still basically and completely explains the human locomotor system, and even intimately separates the abdominal muscles from the outside to the inside in the abdomen, and draws them in layers. The intercostal internal and external intercostal muscles distributed between the ribs are even more distinct.
After scribbling through the book, Kraft found that it was supposed to be the first volume, which mainly talked about how bones and muscles make up the locomotor system of the human body, described each part with corresponding pictures, and analyzed the relationship between human movements and muscle contractions.
The person who drew the illustration of the original manuscript must have done a lot of hard work, and should have watched it at the scene of the autopsy, and it may even be the author himself who sketched while dissecting, with special emphasis marks and additional notes on the attachment points of the muscles, so as to prevent misplacement due to the transcriber's misunderstanding in the process of being transcribed.
In Kraft's manuscript, which is not known for what edition, the author's original intention is still accurately expressed. Movements and corresponding muscle movements are matched one by one, so even beginners can understand the crux of movement disorders.
And the third book, the second volume of "The Structure of the Human Body", is about the morphological distribution of internal organs and blood vessels.
The author implicitly hints that he structurally confirms, in a fairly credible way, a part of the correctness of the four-liquid doctrine. As for the way, it was again omitted.
In short, he recognized the presence of clear white fluid in the brain and spinal cord, and also confirmed that the yellow fluid originates from the liver, is stored in the gallbladder, and has a pathway to the intestines. It's just that the black liquor has not been discovered by him for the time being.
With this foundation, the pioneer believed that the traditional doctrine was not unreasonable, and at least to a certain extent confirmed its reliability.
In addition, after analyzing the blood vessels, he innovatively proposed a new idea, that is, red fluid can actually be divided into two types, two that flow in different blood vessels.
One has a tougher and thicker wall, while the other has a weaker wall and a larger lumen, which translates to arteries and veins. But here his train of thought diverged again.
Because the blood vessels of the individual organs in the abdominal cavity converge into the liver, he thinks that the liver may be the dominant organ of the venous system, and the arteries belong to the heart, leading to the idea that the two organs jointly control the red fluid.
The last chapter of the book returns to black liquor. Since the above things do exist and can be compared with the four-liquid theory, the author thinks that there may be something wrong with his own work, so he did not make up for this last link.
It may also be that the four-liquid doctrine has been circulating for too long, and it has long been different from the original in repeated transcriptions, and the deviation has been continuously magnified, so that future generations cannot understand it. There is more than one contradiction in the four-liquid theory that there is too much yellow fluid but patients are anorexic, which shows that his speculation is not unreasonable.
Black liquor may be one of the special beings, and "black" is used only as a name, not really referring to color. Or simply the embodiment of the concept of stillness and inhibition, not a specific substance, but he has not yet realized what it is, and needs more in-depth research to find out.
The two volumes of "The Structure of the Human Body" come to an abrupt end, and an imprint different from that of the Wendengang Medical School is left at the end. When the producer of the manuscript copied various works, he would have left this mark indicating the authorship out of respect for the author.
It is not difficult for the interested learner to see that it is a fifth cervical vertebra with a strange smile, and in the cone that resembles a grinning mouth, there is a scribbled signature that the author does not know whether it is true or false: Edward.