The next section sets out the goal of covering the Neck Muscles. As the section of the book is describing an image, it shouldn't be assumed that this will entail the full discourse on these areas of the body. It's much more likely that this is a simple overview of these areas and more details will follow as there are 1600 more pages to go. So as we read this we should look at this as the simple summary introduction of the professional doctor attempting to describe the subject matter of the human body to a laywoman as the book is set out to educate wives and mothers in the arts of family nursing.

The neck muscles -- this beautiful illustration brings out in bold relief is superficial and deep muscles of the neck, and, at the same time, we observe a faithful to litigation, not only of the relative position of the carotid artery and jugular vein, but also of the manner in which muscular and fleshy part of the neck receives its nervous supply.

This is a short section wrapping up the primary section titled "the brain; and a vertical section of the face and neck." Again this one paragraph mention something that was referenced in the previous paragraph. It references the idea of the nervous supply. The section that contain information on the "view of the eye" went into slight detail about the supply of nerves to the teeth, "we see the dental nerve distributing its nervous supply to their individual and collective roots," and then again we see the same description of a nervous supply here in the section, "and fleshy part of the neck receives its nervous supply." This reference to the nervous supply seems to describe something more than just a system of nerves as it might be described day and hints that a conceptual difference possibly stemming from a lack of knowledge about what the nervous system actually dozer performs. Scientists of the day were not ignorant of the electrical connections in the nervous system and the analogies to the movement of current, as many experiments have been done on animals and other systems of the day to identify the cause-and-effect associated with putting occurrence to a nerve for a muscle. To a certain degree this appears to be a choice of semantics probably utilized by the editors as opposed to an actual medical view. However based on the context that is not entirely possible to confirm or ascertain.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• How May Adults Remain Healthy?
  
  

  How may adults Remain Healthy?-In this day and generation struggle for existence is becoming more and more complex, the occupations are more enacting and confining, exposure to accidents more frequent, due to modern machinery and it’s difficult handling.  Competition in all lines is great and therefore more string is put upon the brain and nerves of man in all walks of life.  This lead-in time to state of “overwork, closed quotes nervous frustration or worry, if the individual has not the physical strength to stand the battle or fails to keep himself in a normal state of body and mind by careful living.  When the latter condition, man is a suitable soil for development of disease which makes short work of the rundown systems, and such a person when exposed to disease or accident is very apt to succumb about some reserve vitality comes to the aid of him or her in the physician or surgeon in attendance and the uneven battle for life.

  Man can keep his health and thus prevent disease by insisting on getting the best and purest of foods, working in factories or shops, dairies, bonds, etc., which are well lighted and ventilated, free from dust, smoke, irritating vapors from paints, gases, assets, etc.  By insisting upon regular working hours, eight hours sleep, dry and warm clothing of exposed during outdoor work, but not too warmly dressed for indoor work.  To your coffee and moderation is not harmful light beers, Porter, Stout, ale; wines, as Sherry, port, claret, without strong preservatives or alcohol, except in small proportions, are not harmful and refresh and cheer the tired nerves.  Whiskey, Brandy, cognac, Jin, except as medicine, are absolutely harmful and the whiskey with the government allows sold in this country is a disgrace and a poison.  More and more corporations and his men are insisting on their employees abstaining from its use.  It causes a sense of stimulation or well-being which is temporary and is soon followed by a sense of depression which can only be relayed by a renewal of the does and the stupid man continues to be temporarily stimulated, while the total effect of his imbibing is to lower his vitality, destroy his mind, I was judgment and render ambitious; Rudy’s appetite by the action up on his stomach, harden his liver and destroy his kidneys.

  That section was a little preachy but it’s definitely interesting as it provides some insight into some of the concepts that went into the prohibition movement before laws were enacted to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol by the general population in the United States.   I wonder how modern preventative concepts will hold up in 100 years such as The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

• Ventricles of the Heart
  
  

  Ventricles of the Heart. — the walls of the left ventricle, which propels the blood to the remotest corners of the human frame, are correspondingly thicker and stronger than those of the right, which forces the blood to the lungs only. Arising from the right ventricle is seeing the blue pulmonary artery, conveying its foul, poisonous, vitiated and venous stream to the lungs, well from the left ventricle is observed a large main artery of the circulatory system — the aorta — from the arch of which arise the right and left carotid arteries.

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  So in the section they jump back into describing parts of the heart as foul and poisonous? There definitely seems to be a lack of knowledge or understanding of what’s going on here, I’m no medical professional bottom of aspirin in about five minutes when the world people might have thought that the ventricles of a heart deliver poisonous blood to the lungs? Seems absurd.

  And was an aside, our blog is currently funded in part through blog advertising. You may notice is from time to time, we work with an excellent firm that provides us with ad placements throughout our blog. These ad placements are very unobtrusive and help keep us working to delve further into an understanding of medicine as it was taught a hundred years ago and as our culture looks at medicine today.

• Bones of the Trunk and Arms. Different Forms of Bones
  
  

  On turning over this flap we are brought face to face with a grim looking but useful object — the framework of the trunk and arms.  The skeleton is of a ghastly appearance and emblematic of death; it’s unsightly look sends a thrill of poor through us, and we instinctively recoil from it.  Yet at some serves a useful purpose in the human body, and the ugly looking bones, when carefully examined, abound in nice contrivances and ingenious workmanship; whilst each individual bonus design for the a special duty it has to perform.  Hence the bones different forms; some are long, as in the arms and legs; some are short and thick, giving strength and compactness, as in the lumbar portion of the spine; some are flat, for covering a cavity, as the school and pelvis, and others used for special purpose or irregular, is in the hands and feet.

  just when I thought the book was getting a slightly bit dull, this little section popped out at me as we start to read into some of the peculiar notions the author had regarding the skeletal system.  Various phrases such as “thrill of poor” and “ghastly appearance and emblematic of death” rapidly depart from the tone you would expect from a medical journal or book.  The author goes halfway through the paragraph before they start to get down to the actual topic at hand and shy away from their romantic notions about how scary a skeleton looks.

  It makes me wonder just how much or how little your average person back in the early 1900s may have been exposed to views that included pictures of the skeleton.  Back then there was no TV nor cartoons even to introduce children to the funny side of skeletons, there was no Halloween where children dressed up like skeletons.  The skull and cross bones probably had a much more sinister visual impact on people and to see a skeleton in real life or even in a picture may have been more dramatic.  It definitely seems peculiar here.