Leg Muscle.- In every part of the human brain there is witnessed ample evidence of design, beauty of architecture, great skill, Finnish workmanship, and a perfect adaptability to the duties he performed. This fact is strikingly illustrated in the beautifully executed color plates to which attention is now drawn, join as it does, at a glance, a thick, strong, muscular instruments employed in the manifold intricacies involved in the act of human locomotion. This exquisitely artistic anatomical plate represents a front view of the pie, leg and foot, and of the 54 fleshy lovers which give form, shape, symmetry, strength and mobility to this useful member of the body. Quite a number of the most important are seen exposed to view, after the scan and fatty tissues have been removed. We are deeply impressed with their large size and great strength, both of which correspond with the requirements demanded the very work which the lake is called onto the form.
In many ways this initial section of the book seems to read less like a medical book and more like a sales pitch trying to convince people to like the human body and accept the 'beauty' of the anatomy of the body. This sales pitch like style is reminiscent of reading a sales catalog for floor tile or a flyer on the latest model of Fords or something. Its more like copy writing than medical text.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Muscles of the Eye
Muscles of the Eye.-I’m turning the flap we see four of the six delicate, who with all strong muscles which I would hold I firmly in its bony orbit, but also moved upward toward the canopied vaults of heaven, downward to view the beauties of nature on earth; or sideways to the right or left, Spain have to horizon at a single glance! The next illustration gives us a graphic and faithful to limitation of the beautiful arrangements of the numerous curtains, humors, lenses, pigments, membranes, nervous coats and blood vessels which enter into the composition of this remarkable organ, each of which is exquisitely adapted to the respective functions has to perform.
As you can tell, we are getting back on track with this effort after a couple month hiatus mostly do to (ironically) poor health. No other projects are going to slow us down and we now have a promoter that will even help us hire more transcriptionists as we cover Wilmington real estate.
- Muscular Arrangement and Blood Supply
Muscles of the Trunk of the Human Body.
Muscular Arrangement and Blood Supply. — In this exquisite and magnificent colored engraving we had a grand view of the wonderful arrangement of the muscles of the trunk of the human body, together with the muscular arrangement of the arms and likewise their blood supply. The trunk of the body is divided into two compartments — the thorax and the abdomen.
I believe this opening segment is referring to the first image and charred two. (see chart 2 first picture )
Now I am not a doctor nor I are very good artist, but as I look at this drawing or engraving as it’s referred to it seemed a little basic to me. Sure I’m used to souped-up graphics and a number of other things that it developed in the last 90 years. That difference I suppose is one of the remarkable things about the book. I often point out the difference and grammar and punctuation and perspective to need a little bit and knowledge.
This is another example of cultural differences spanning 90 years of time. 90 years ago this might have been a very accurate and high-tech picture, well today and 2007 it looks extremely basic almost like something that a grade school student might color with a crayon.It may be a little trite but like to point out also a diagram of the belly button, which strikes me as rather ludicrous looking even though it’s not all that bad. Maybe it’s the two-dimensional rendering of the belly button that strikes me, or maybe it’s the juxtaposition of a section of skin on top of a section of the torso that has no skin. I’m not really sure but it seems little funny to me.
- Pleura of the Lungs – Size/ shape/ weight of lungs
Pleura of the Lungs. –in this chart we see also the pleura or the investing membrane of the lungs, and right below it the diaphragm or midriff.Two Distinct Lungs. –although the lungs are two in number, as far as their structure is concerned, and are perfectly distinct from each other, having, as we observe in the chart underneath this one, the heart and blood-vessels between them, yet as regards their functions they may be considered the same, since they received their blood from a single vessel, the pulmonary artery, and the air by one canal, the trachea or wind-pipe, and act in common with each other.
Size and Shape of Lungs. –as will be observed, the lungs are not quite the same size or shape; the right lung, although somewhat shorter and thicker than the left, is the larger and stronger, being divided into three lobe; wills to the left is the smaller and weaker, divided into two lobes only, and hence more frequently subject to disease.
Weight And Shape of Lungs. –the weight of the lungs varies very much; but in general they average about forty-two ounces in the male;thirty-six in the female; the right lung been about 2 ounces heavier than the left. Each lung is comical in shape, with a broad concave base resting on the convex surface of the midriff, the apex directed upward and extending into the root of the neck about 1 inch above the level of the first rib.
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This section sounds much more scientific than the opening statement, it does have quite a few excessive examples of commas and even a few semicolons, but it doesn’t mention corsets, and it seems to stick to the facts or leased a description of the lungs in this particular case.A student studying medicine might learn something about the lungs from the section, although I suppose it probably was a practical thing to learn hundred years ago that corsets cause and strictures in the lungs. In fact it might have even been common knowledge although there may have been some sort of taboo against discussing such things and maybe it was only known by certain people. Therefore it might’ve been very practical to call that a medical book in case male readers or male doctors were somehow ignorant of the problems caused by corsets.
