mentalists may have asserted to the contrary and 

 however much they may talk about the heart. 

 It is a trite saying that a man's heart is in his 

 stomach ; but there is much more truth in it than 

 those who say it, thinking only of man's " gor- 

 mandize," imagine. Where, I would ask, in a 

 healthy subject, are such emotions as love, affec- 

 tion, disappointment, depression, and sorrow felt? 

 And where is the sensation when the "heart 

 sinks " ? Not above the diaphragm, though ex- 

 citing emotions like anger, hatred, and their fel- 

 lows may accelerate the action of the heart. I 

 am afraid "the heart" is often only a poetic 

 euphemism for the stomach, and this is perhaps 

 most strongly evidenced in the French expression 

 " mal au cceur." 



This dissertation on anatomy reminds me of the 

 boy's answer on being asked to describe the hu- 

 man body: "The human body consists of three 

 parts, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The 

 head contains the brain; the thorax contains the 

 heart and the lungs, and the abdomen contains 

 the vowels, of which there are five, a, e, i, o, and 

 u, and sometimes w and y." 

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