It’s been a few days since I visited the Book of Medicine so I’ve got a little catching up to do. Today on the cover a quick little section and tomorrow I’ve got a much longer section.

Order of Brain Mechanism - commencing from above and descending downward we observe the following important structures, to wit: the fascia or skin covering the cranial bones; and then a section of the bones themselves, showing their laminated structures. Between the bones of us go on the brain are seeing the meningeal coats of the brain, which serve the double purpose of supplying it with blood vessels and protecting a delicate organ from pressure or injury.

There isn’t too much of her mark bowl interest here and this particular section other than the fact that I believe the word ‘fascia’ is today spelled as facia. So more along the lines I think the word is lost to ‘S’. That’s probably not terribly surprising as this book was written right around the time that various different countries were attempting to standardize dictionaries and spelling around the world. Furthermore this book is written for publication in both the United Kingdom and in the United States and so some of the language could have variations due to either of the intended reader bases.