The practitioner among the unlearned has fearful odds to contend with in trying to bring an ignorant patient under his regimen.

One word from sister, cousin or aunt, and the invalid will cast aside the physician's remedies, and take quarts of some patent medicine.
If you should question your laundress or cook, or your farmer's wife, you would be appalled to discover what peculiar notions she has of her physical make-up.

It would be interesting and astounding to allow one of these people to draw a chart of her interior machinery, as she supposes it to be.

It would bear as little resemblance to the reality as did the charts of the ancients who antedated Tycho Brahe, Pythagoras, and Copernicus, to the celestial charts of the nineteenth century.

One would note especially the prominence given to certain organs.