The heart is what keeps the human body running. From the very first time someone presses their head up against their mothers chest or feels their own heart beat, they know that the pulse they feel means something important. It’s the rhythm that lets us keep on living. It’s strange to think that before I read this book, I barely knew anything about this absolutely vital organ in my body. Now, I probably know more history about the human heart than I ever thought I’d know. This book went totally in depth about the history of the human heart, and how modern medicine knows what it knows about this vital organ. It weaves history and information about the heart together in a way that keeps you interested until the last page, which is something I …show more content…
It was an unexpected change from most of the books I’ve had to read on medical history, where the author expects you to be an expert on the topic and terms presented. In The Man Who Touched his Own Heart, Dunn thoroughly explains the terms and discoveries in a simple and understandable way. Along with his easy to understand writing, he provides the reader with sources to research even more on the topic if its still not fully understood. It made it an interactive read that made sure you were caught up completely before moving on to the next discovery or the next topic. I found myself looking up the websites he listed multiple times, sometimes just because I wanted to learn even more on the topic presented. It definitely stretched out the time it took for me to finish the book, but I didn’t mind. I’ve never really found myself wanting to research or learn more about something I’ve read in a medical history book until I picked this one up, which was a surprising and enjoyable change. He also presented all of his information in a very entertaining way. It was more of a personal conversation with someone who really knew their heart history instead of a lecture from a professor on the history of the
In Falcon’s report “Heart Disease” he anatomically describes the heart as “a fist sized organ located in the lower left quarter of the chest…[consisting] of four chambers: the right and left atria on top and the right and left ventricles at the bottom” (Falcon). While the heart is one of the smaller organs in the body, it has an enormous and important job to do; deliver nutrient carrying blood to the tissues in the human body. In people with heart disease, the heart is impeded and cannot efficiently deliver nutrients and oxygen to structures such as our muscles or our brain. This is one of the reasons that heart disease is so deadly; when our body structures are deprived of necessary nutrients, they begin to breakdown. The term “heart disease” encompasses a wide variety of
The heart is one of the most important organs in the body. The heart is responsible for pumping blood throughout the human body supplying the tissue with oxygen and nutrients and removing carbon dioxide and waste. If the heart does not supply blood and oxygen to the organs and tissues, they will die.
Poe writes “The Tell Tale Heart” from the perspective of the murderer of the old man. When an author creates a situation where the central character tells his own account, the overall impact of the story is heightened. The narrator, in this story, adds to the overall effect of horror by continually stressing to the reader that he or she is not mad, and tries to convince us of that fact by how carefully this brutal crime was planned and executed. The point of view helps communicate that the theme is madness to the audience because from the beginning the narrator uses repetition, onomatopoeias, similes, hyperboles, metaphors and irony.
The word heart has come to symbolize many things. It can be used as a “muscle” in corporeality or as an ethereal substance like emotions. Heart has mostly come to symbolize its impalpable counterpart. Hayden Carruth would like to “apologize” for using the word so much,
In Joyas Voladoras, by Brian Doyle, Doyle compares the different types of hearts in various living organisms. He begins with the hummingbird, moving on to the blue whale, mammals and birds, reptiles and turtles, fish, insects and mollusks, worms, and unicellular bacteria. Although Doyle spends a great deal of the essay talking about the physical characteristics of the each organism’s heart, he actually conveys a deeper message. Doyle shows how all living things are related, both internally and externally.
The article “What Broke My Father’s Heart” by Katy Butler is a memoir that describes the deterioration of her father Jeffery along a seven-year span. He was full of life and mentally engaged well into his 70’s until the age of 79 when he suffered a stroke. The stroke left him with considerable problems. Despite his drive and determination to overcome the strokes after effects, he deteriorated. Jeffery told his wife, “I don’t know who I am anymore.” After developing a painful hernia the following year that required surgery to be repaired, Jeffery’s cardiologist requested a preoperative cardiology clearance. The cardiologist stated he would not perform the surgery unless he received a pacemaker for his slow heart rhythm. His wife consented due to being overwhelmed and fatigued. The pacemaker insertion was apparently successful, but Katy’s father continued to go downhill. Four years after the pacemaker was put in, Katy’s mother asked her husband’s cardiologist to turn off the device, but he denied her request. Eight years after his initial stroke, Jeffery passed due to pneumonia. But even after his passing, Jeffery’s pacemaker continued to work flawlessly.
I really liked this book because it was very interesting to learn about how people make life decisions, and that it's okay to change your ideas. I loved reading about the stories he learned from all of the patients that he would help. One of my favorite stories was the one about when a man was an alcoholic and said that he diluted it with water which was sad, but it was also funny. This is why I loved this book because of the real stories that are way more interesting because they are true. It was also
heart from the body by the veins and its purpose is to keep us alive
In this context, the heart does not refer to the organ that pumps blood throughout the body. “The heart is the source, or spring of motives; the seat of the passions; the center of the thought processes; the spring of conscience heart.”
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was an interesting novel to read about a time in which there
It’s what allows us to breathe, feel, hurt, and love. It’s the irrational part of humans that makes us love someone that can hurt us, or hurt someone that loves us. It also the same organ that allows huge beasts to find one mate and spend the rest of their lives with them. “No living being is without interior liquid motion. We all churn inside.” It is hard to find anything these days that aren’t directed towards the heart. Foods that are good for your heart, books that warm the heart, movies that stir the heart, the list is endless. Doyle uses this particularly in his last paragraph.
The heart is a complex yet delicate organ that operates the body on a regular basis. Without the heart the circulation system within the body would cease to exist; therefore, we would cease to exist. As with everything that is complex and works around the clock there are certain issues that can arise for example, atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is the result of an irregular or fast heartbeat this will often cause an inadequate circulation throughout the rest of the body. The atrium of the heart will not sync up to the ventricles causing an irregular or fast heartbeat.
The Heart is a very important organ in the body. It is what keeps your blood flowing and your organs going. It is a tireless muscle that pumps more than two thousand gallons of blood every day. The blood that is pumped is filled with nutrition and oxygen (Colombo 7). It travels through out your body in less than sixty seconds. So it needs to be taken extra good care of. When abuse is put on the body, the heart’s performance is not at its best. The Heart is a major organ that needs loving and care. Everyone has only one and by abusing it, they are cutting their live span little by little. People can live their lives freely but how they choose to live them could be the difference between life and death.
The hearts role is to pump oxygenated blood to every cell in the body by having a continuous beat. Throughout time the heart has created mystery, however current technology has solved most of the mystery, there still remains an enchantment and eagerness to learn more.
In the article, Rubanyi begins by explaining to the reader the important function of the human heart. The author clarifies that the heart is the most important organ in the human body that pumps oxygen rich blood to the entire body via the circulatory system. In fact, the heart beats about 100,000 times, and pumps about 2,000 gallons of blood in a single day through a network of blood vessels. However, the circulation of blood flow can be disrupted through a blockage caused by a blood clot or