“If the dew lies plentifully on the grass after a fair day, it is a sign of another fair day. If not, and there is no wind, rain must follow. A red evening portends fine weather; but if the redness spread too far upwards from the horizon in the evening, and especially in the morning, it foretells wind or rain or both.

“When the sky in rainy weather is tinged with sea-green, the rain will increase; if with deep blue, it will be showery.

“If you wish to know what sort of weather you may expect, go out and choose the smallest cloud you can see. Watch it, and if it grows smaller and suddenly disappears, you may be pretty sure of fine weather; or the opposite if the cloud grows larger. The reason is that when the air is becoming charged with electricity, each cloud attracts smaller ones, until it passes off in rain; but if rain is diffusing itself, a large cloud breaks up and dissolves.

“Previous to much rain falling, the clouds grow bigger, and increase very fast, especially before thunder. If clouds form high in the air in thin white trains like locks of wool, they portend wind, and probably rain. When a general cloudiness covers the sky, and small black fragments of clouds fly underneath, they are a sure sign of rain, which probably will be lasting.

“A haziness in the air, which dims the sun’s light, and makes the orb appear whitish, or ill-defined; or, at night, if the moon and stars grow dim, and a ring encircles the former, rain will follow. If the moon looks pale and dim we expect rain; if red, wind; and if of her natural color with a clear sky, fair weather.”

“An organ is a piece of structuralized experience and tissue memories.”

“Congenital malformations of the liver are not common. There are cases of absence of the liver, and of defect of one of the lobes or irregularity in the lobes. What may be called supernumerary livers have also been found in the form of isolated pieces of liver in the suspensory ligament. Of more importance is congenital absence of the gall bladder, along with which there is usually a dilatation of the bile ducts.”