Assimilative Memory Part 27

5. How are the facts, then, easily learned?

6. Make original correlations for this Extract.

7. Do you use any unfamiliar words in your correlations?

8. How do you memorise the attachments of muscles?

9. Is it possible to memorise their origins and insertions by my System?

10. Is this _learning_?

11. What is it then?

By the System it is easy to learn facts of Anatomy. But the System is no subst.i.tute for _dissection and experiment_. You can get a COMPREHENSION of anatomical facts only by _actual experience_, and to attempt to require an _understanding_ of them from books is to subst.i.tute a knowledge of words for a knowledge of things.

The following will indicate one way in which you may proceed in memorising the attachments of the muscles of the back:

(1) First make a h.o.m.ophone of the name of the muscle.

(2) Indicate each attachment of the muscle by two words.

The initial letter of the first word should indicate the part of bone to which the muscle is attached, _e.g._, Sp = spinous process, T = transverse process, R = rib, &c. The second word should indicate by its consonants the _numbers_ of the bones to which the attachment is made.

(3) Correlate the h.o.m.ophone of the muscle to the first pair of words, and the first pair to the second pair. For example:

"The SPLENIUS COLLI is attached, inferiorly, to the spinous processes of the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth dorsal vertebrae, and superiorly to the transverse processes of the first two or three cervical vertebrae."

spleniuS COLLi (h.o.m.ophone) SCOLD.

SCOLD ... cold ... marble ... SPLENDID IMAGE ...

gold statuette ... chimney ornament ... clock ... 'TIS TIME.

In the first pair of words the initial of Splendid shows that the attachment is to the Spinous processes, and the word Image indicates that the vertebrae implicated are the third to the sixth. The second pair show that the transverse processes, from the first to the third, are those into which the muscle is inserted.

"The SPLENIUS CAPITIS arises from the spines of the seventh cervical and two upper dorsal vertebrae and from the ligamentum nuchae. It is inserted into the lower and back part of the mastoid process, and into the outer part of the superior curved line of the occipital bone."

spleniuS CAPitis (h.o.m.ophone) ESCAPE.

ESCAPE ... flight ... projectile ... trajectory ... conic section ...

SPLIT CONE.

split ... spliced ... ligatured ............ LIGAMENTUM NUCHae.

new keel ... ship ... mast ................. MASTOID.

masticate ... eat ... drink ... sip ........ OCCIPITAL.

1. Do you need to use h.o.m.ophones in this study?

2. What is the most difficult task in Anatomy?

3. Do students generally master this thoroughly?

4. What makes the learning of Anatomy easy?

5. Is my System a subst.i.tute for dissection?

6. How can you get a comprehension of anatomical facts?

POISONS AND ANTIDOTES.

Narcotic poisons are neutralized by vinegar:--NARCOTICS ... torpor ...

strong wine ... sour wine ... _vinegar_.

Wine, brandy, coffee, and camphor may be used to rouse those who have taken laudanum or any other preparation of opium ... OPIUM ... opium eater ... intemperate ... _brandy_ ... _wine_ ... beverage ... _coffee_ ... cough ... cold ... camphorated spirit ... _camphor_.

Mucilage, camphor, and oil may be taken to neutralize cantharides:--CANTHARIDES ... hair-grower ... _oil_ ... smooth-running ... ease ... comfort ... _camphor_ ... fur cat ... mew ... _mucilage_.

Ten drops of ammonia in a gla.s.s of sugared water sobers a tipsy man:--DRUNK ... alcohol ... volatile spirits ... volatile ... alkali ...

_ammonia_ ... to moan ... {t}o {s}igh (10) ... pathos ... sweet tears ...

_sugared water_.

ACONITE ... night boat ... sea sick ... _emetics_ ... exhaustion ...

_stimulants_ ... hard drinking ... spontaneous combustion ... _animal charcoal_.

1. Are antidotes for Poisons easy to remember?

2. Should not all persons have a knowledge of the antidotes for the ordinary poisons?

3. What method have I given to obtain such knowledge?

4. What is the relation between "Narcotics" and "torpor"?

CHLORIDE OF LIME ... bad smell ... bad egg ... _white of egg_ ... fowl ... grain ... _flour_ ... flour and water ... milk fluid ... _milk_.

Oil, milk (any fatty mucilaginous substance), may protect the coats of the stomach against oil of vitriol and other acrid poisons:--ACRID ... curd ... curdled milk ... _milk_ ... b.u.t.ter ... melted b.u.t.ter ...

_oil_.

STRONG ACIDS [Sulphuric Acid (oil of vitriol), Nitric Acid, Hydrochloric Acid] ... alkali ... lemon kali ... effervescing draught ... citrate of magnesia ... _Magnesia_ ... antacid ... _Bicarbonate of Soda_ ... potash ... potash soap ... _soap suds_ ... emollient ... _Emollient Drinks_.

CARBOLIC ACID ... liquid ... oil ... sweet oil ... castor oil ...

aperient ... _Epsom Salts_ ... white ... _white of egg_.

Prussic acid (Hydrocyanic Acid) is neutralized by alkalies and freshly precipitated oxide of iron:--PRUSSIC ACID ... tartaric acid ...

carbonate of soda ... _alkali_ ... lie on the side ... _oxide of iron_ ... steel file ... rasp ... _artificial respiration_. [HYDROCYANIC ACID ... cyanotic ... asphyxiated ... no respiration ... _Artificial respiration_ ... perspiration ... hot ... _cold effusion_ ... exposed to wet ... rust ... _fresh precipitated oxide of iron_.]

Soap and Sulphide of Pota.s.sium are antidotes against a.r.s.enic and other metallic poisons: METALLIC ... lick ... cat-lick ... wash ... _soap_ ...

potash soap ... pota.s.sium ... _sulphide of pota.s.sium_.

TARTRATED ANTIMONY ... tartar emetic ... vomiting ... irritating ...

_emollient drinks_ ... ladies drink ... _strong tea_ ... bitter infusion ... _tannic acid_.

NITRATE OF SILVER ... silver sand ... seash.o.r.e ... _sea water_ ...

_common salt_ ... white ... _white of egg_ ... fowls ... barley ...

_barley water_ ... warm water ... vomiting ... _emetics_.

PERCHLORIDE OF MERCURY ... quicksilver ... white ... _white of egg_ ...

piecrust ... _wheat flour_ ... flowers of sulphur ... milk of sulphur ... _milk_.

1. Can you discover more than one relation existing between "grain"

and "flour"?

2. Why could we not use the single word "white," to connect "white of egg" to "flour"?

3. What is the relation between "liquid" and "oil"?

4. What two relations exist between "vomiting" and "irritating"?

5. What one, between "fowls" and "barley"?

6. Why?

7. What is the relation between "wheat flour" and "flowers of sulphur"?