Size, Shape and Location of the Heart.  –In this beautiful anatomical chart we obtain an accurate idea of the relative size, shape and position of that wonderful engine, the heart, his tireless efforts to keep the wheels of life and motion are truly surprising, and fill us with amazement at the prodigious work at daily performs.  The heart is in your regular, pear-shaped hollow, muscular organ, placed obliquely in the lower in front part of the chest, between the two lungs and inclining to the left of the centre. the bases directed toward the spine and corresponds with the fourth and fifth dorsal spine bone, while the apex points between the cartilages of the fifth and sixth ribs on the left side.  In this illustration the pericardium, or loose sac in which the heart is enclosed, is removed and we see the coronary artery with its branches distributed over the outer surface of the complex and restless organ.

This section wasn’t written to poorly, or maybe a better way to say this is that it seems to stood the test of time fairly well.  Second sentence got a little bit wordy and again I would suspect a paid by the word contract, but in general this was fairly descriptive and fairly on point.  You might notice the spelling of the word centre spelled with an ‘re’ as opposed to an ‘er’

I suspect that may be one of those variations in spelling that have occurred over the centuries. Otherwise it was fairly tame.  The chart that they’re referring to his Chart 2 by the way.