The Spinal Column.  — The spinal column, the lumbar portion of which is here seeing, consists of twenty-four bones, the which are placed pads of cartilage.  Such is the elasticity of these cushions of cartilage, that, though they become condensed to the day, making a shorter in the evening then in the morning, they resume their normal thickness while you’re lying in bed at night.  The perfection in the architecture of the spine surpasses belief; its various uses seem a bundle of contradictions.

This section starts to sound more like the book we are familiar with.  There are several excessive uses of the coma and once again we start to encounter the authors love of the human body in a way that is less than scientific.  I suppose a hundred years ago there may have been a little bit more passion for science than there is today, or maybe my own perception in this regards as biased.  I seem to recall an anthropology professor back in college that was possibly as passionate about his topic is the author is about this topic.