I've read many of Bryson's earlier books, this is the third one of his that I've read with a scientific theme read after "A Short History." and "At Home". Bryson manages to sound monotone, unexcited and borderline out of breath throughout.
It's great when certain authors narrate their own works, as you can really feel their enthusiasm for the subject, but boy is this not one of those cases. So it doesn't turn into anything, it doesn't become tumorous or anything.Average, really needs a professional narrator, But the thing, only one or two of your cells turn cancerous, and then your immune system identifies those rogue cells and immediately kills them. And I really do - the fact that there are all of these systems operating, one of the facts that just blew me away when I stumbled upon when I was doing the book was that we all get cancer a couple of thousand times a year on average, they think. Yes, I do! I mean, first of all, I really appreciate what my body does for me. On whether he thinks of his own body differently now Almost anywhere you look in the body, you will find mystery. There is no reason why you should have to suffer chronic backache, or any other kind of really chronic pain, and yet we do. Lots and lots of people off work with chronic backache. I mean, one of the greatest maladies affecting modern humans is backache. And yet you know this is a common occurrence for lots and lots of people. You know, if you have some pain that just goes on and on and on, it makes your life a misery. But it was pretty common.Īlmost anywhere you look in the body, you will find mystery. you can't say that was a routine event in the 18th century. And he died, poor man died, but essentially he was killed by his doctors - and. And of course this had exactly the opposite effect of making him better, it made him much, much worse. And then in the end, they drained about 40 percent of his blood from him. And then when that didn't make him better they drained more and more. they drained, you know, like 40 ounces of blood from him. And what they did was they started bleeding him, which was the standard procedure for people who were unwell at that time. Three doctors were called in, and they all came and looked into him. And then as a result of that, he got some kind of a throat infection - really probably no more than just a bad cold.īut then his doctors got hold of him, because he was a person of such eminence. And when he came home, unwisely, he ate dinner in in damp clothes. And he'd been out surveying the plantation on horseback one day in winter and it was raining, and he got very wet. And he'd only just started enjoying his retirement. He'd retired, you know, he'd won the Revolutionary War and then served two heroic terms as president, and all he really wanted to do was just retire to Mount Vernon and have a quiet life.
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