ASIN: B00JO9C7K4
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 29
Blood is sometimes rightly known as the juice of life. From an early stage on, the central role of blood as a source of energy was recognized, and efforts were made to "purify" blood with medicinal plants. People who had "good blood", especially noble people, were envied. From the anatomical perspective, blood is a juice which absorbs the vigour of life from the air in the lungs, and supplies it to the rest of the body. On its way back, the blood carries waste products which leave the body again by way of the lungs' wondrous function. The great doctor of antiquity, Claudius Galenus, who perhaps developed the deepest and most comprehensive art of healing, failed to gain an understanding of how the blood and, ultimately, the body achieve this. How can it be that so much which is harmful to health and toxic flows into the lung, but apparently recedes and decomposes there, and in a matter ...
