Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Pathetic Fallacy
KING LEAR & MKGIII: 28 April
A TIA is often considered a warning sign that a true stroke may happen in the future if something is not done to prevent it.
Symptoms begin suddenly, last only a short time (from a few minutes to 24 hours), and disappear completely. They may occur again at a later time. Symptoms usually occur on the same side of the body if more than one body part is involved.
A TIA is different than a small stroke. However, the symptoms of TIA are the same as a stroke and include the sudden development of:
- Muscle weakness of the face, arm, or leg (usually only on one side of the body)
- Numbness or tingling on one side of the body
- Trouble speaking or understanding others who are speaking
- Problems with eyesight (double vision, loss of all or part of vision)
- Changes in sensation, involving touch, pain, temperature, pressure, hearing, and taste
- Change in alertness (sleepiness, less responsive, unconscious, or coma)
- Personality, mood, or emotional changes
- Confusion or loss of memory
- Difficulty swallowing
- Difficulty writing or reading
- Lack of coordination and balance, clumsiness, or trouble walking
- Abnormal sensation of movement (vertigo) or dizziness
- Lack of control over the bladder or bowels
- Inability to recognize or identify sensory stimuli (agnosia)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
DINE OUT FOR LIFE
I've made a reservation at THE TRACTOR ROOM--delicious foods and beverages--(best. place. ever.) for 8:00pm. I will have lil printed out sheets with the Tractor Room's address on it for Thursday if you want/need directions.
Monday, April 26, 2010
MKG III: Asylums
The inscription on Willis' bust in Greatford Hall: Sacred to the memory of the Revd. Francis Willis M D who died on the 5th December 1807 in the 90th year of his age. He studied at Oxford, was Fellow and sometime Principal of Brasenose College, where in obedience to his father he entered Holy Orders; but pursuing the bent of his natural taste and inclination he took the degree of Doctor of Physic in the same University and continued the practice of his profession to the last hour of his life. Initiated early into the habits of observation and research he attained the highest eminence in his profession: and was happily the chief agent in removing the malady which afflicted the present majesty in the year 1789. On that occasion he displayed an energy and acuteness of mind which excited the admiration and produced for him the esteem of the nation. The kindliness and benevolence of his disposition was testified by the tears and lamentations which followed him to the grave.
MKGIII and LEAR: The Four Humors
if you click on the chart it'll get bigger.
The Four Humours were how people understood the functioning of their own bodies and emotions. These ideas which seem crude and rather archaic to us were the incontrovertible scienctific fact of the time. For HUNDREDS of years. It was all about the Four Humours til we got to the development of modern medicine via the invention of the microscope/microscopic instruments in the late 19th and early 20th century. They were a theory of medicine and a psychological typology. The ideal person would have a body and spirit that kept each humor in control; balanced humours. The explanation therefore of an excited emotional state or an atypical physical state was regarded as an imbalance in the humors: eg an excess of yellow bile is causing someone to act rather violently--things of that nature.
I found this interesting but it may be a bit too detailed for some...
Digestion and Four Bodily Humors
Mouth takes in food and drink
First digestion
To Stomach
Usable parts are acted upon by
digestive fluids. (Unusable parts go
to large intestine and are
emitted as excrement.)
To Small Intestine
Becomes chyme by mixing with
digestive juices and fluids of meal.
(Travels through mesenteric veins, portal vein.)
To Liver
Second digestion
BLOOD HUMOR ARISES
(Hot & Moist)
Superior nutrients are taken in via
bloodstream to heart and dispersed to
cells via general bloodstream.
Third digestion
Less choice parts become
PHLEGM HUMOR
(Cold & Moist)
Normal digestion converts into mucus,
saliva, and gastric and intestinal mucus.
Abnormal digestion causes excess mucus,
classified as sweet, sour, thick, thin, etc.
Remaining nutrients become
YELLOW BILE (BILIOUS) HUMOR
(Hot & Dry)
Normal bile is formed in liver, affects
blood, and acts in small intestine.
Abnormal humor causes destructive changes in bile.
Sediments of precipitates of digestive nutrients become
BLACK BILE (ATRABILIOUS) HUMOR
(Cold & Dry)
Normal humor affects spleen and blood,
and mixes with phlegm humor.
Fourth digestion
Abnormal humor is passed out as ash
or admixes with blood humor and other
humors, producing morbid conditions.
Usable parts are acted upon by
digestive fluids. (Unusable parts go
to large intestine and are
emitted as excrement.)
Becomes chyme by mixing with
digestive juices and fluids of meal.
(Travels through mesenteric veins, portal vein.)
(Hot & Moist)
bloodstream to heart and dispersed to
cells via general bloodstream.
(Cold & Moist)
saliva, and gastric and intestinal mucus.
Abnormal digestion causes excess mucus,
classified as sweet, sour, thick, thin, etc.
(Hot & Dry)
blood, and acts in small intestine.
(Cold & Dry)
and mixes with phlegm humor.
or admixes with blood humor and other
humors, producing morbid conditions.