The Collar Bone.  -- The collar bone is fast and that one into the breast bone in the first drip, and at the other into a shoulder blade.  It does holes the shoulder-joint out from the chest, eight in protecting the important vessels of the axilla, and gives the arm a greater range of freedom, mobility and play.

In this section I first noted that the word collar bone is used as two separate words as opposed to the compound word in use today, collarbone .  You might also notice that the author regularly uses an excessive number of dashes in the text.  Unfortunately on occasion I lose her drop some of these when my spell checker and dictation service gets confused by the excessive number of dashes.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• A Picture of Good Health
  
  

  Note, This is the opening section of the first chapter of the first book.

  The following Opening lines precede the segment:

  A Description of the Colored Anatomical Charts Composing the Manikin Accompanying this Work.

  We now proceed with what the book refers to his chart 1, however this would normally reference a chapter 1 I believe today.

  A PICTURE OF GOOD HEALTH

  This exquisitely beautiful and artistic anatomical late presents the head and face of a young man in the enjoyment of perfect health. Apart from the subject it’s so accurately and faithfully represents, it is in itself a viable life-like portraiture of the human head and face, and shows to what perfection the art of anatomical plate printing has attained. Note the prominent perceptive faculties, the high four head, features characteristic of a large brain and a massive and unimpaired intellect. Mark the open expression of the eye! How true to nature and life — like. Observe the compressed lips, denoting firmness of character and determination of purpose. Look at tentatively at the bright, open, manly countenance; there are no signs of mental decrepitude, physical bodily infirmities, nervous fear, or exhaustion of brainpower or life — force in the expression of the noble, ruddy and healthy face. It is, as its name implies, typical of Perfect Health!

  Now you might ask, “What in the world is as book referring to at this point?”

  The answer is what I can only refer to as a pop out picture on page 37.

• The Crab Lice
  
  

  The Crab Lice.—These are a smaller type of the former species, as head or body lice. They are nearly as wide as long. They have strong legs spread out on the sides of the body, which makes them appear like crabs. They are of whitish color, slightly shaded on the shoulders and legs with a red tinge. Crab lice are found upon the hairy regions of the body other than the scalp. The spread of these pests can be checked by washing all toilet seats with scalding water, and boiling towels and linen from suspected persons. Laundries should be especially careful as to the thorough boiling and disinfection of all clothing, as the eggs of these parasites can be conveyed in bed-clothing, towels, etc.

  TREATMENT.–Shave the hair in the region of the itching and wash twice a day with a lotion made of

  Tincture of Larkspur…………1/2 ounce

  Commercial Ether ……….. 8 ounces

   

   WARNING  This treatment recommendation is over 100 years old.  We do not recommend it nor know how effective or safe it might be.  If you are cleaning clothing or Delsey luggage or something, use at your own risk, but if you try this stuff on your self, we think you are probably crazy.

• Stagnant Water
  
  

  Stagnant Water. — stagnant water is, from the large quantity of organic matter in a decomposing state which it holds in suspension or solution, exceedingly unfitted for drinking and culinary purposes, no matter how transparent it may appear; and it should, in consequence, he carefully avoided whenever running water can possibly be procured. Pond-water, Canal-water, ditch-water and marsh-water all come under this category, and should be scrupulously shunned, under penalty of suffering from fever and ague, dysentery, typhoid fever, and many other dangerous maladies.

  Almost as if to emphasize my last point about my distaste for the excessive use of punctuation in the form of hyphens, the author almost seems to throw it in my face with this particular section. If I were driving a car through the cornfields of Illinois where I was born, and I was hampered in my journey due to the excessive bugs that tend to plaster windshields and evening, this would be akin to what the author is doing here only if I was suddenly swatted with a car covers sized bug, which after living in Illinois for many years is something that I’m sure exists.