Muscular Levers.-These great muscular levers in the body forward on the thigh, and bring the legs inward toward each other, besides moving the whole body to and fro when walking, etc.  The long, narrow muscle, seen running bleakly across the thought, is the Sartorius muscle,  a so called from the fact that it crosses the legs for the sartorial (Tailor's) posture.  It is the longest muscle in the body.

When I attempted to look up the word 'sartorial' in Wikipedia, I could find no reference for it.  I'm not exactly sure what a tailor's posture looks like.  Maybe its a form of exercise and maybe its something that tailors used to employ when taking measurements years ago.  I'm not sure.  I can almost picture someone doing squats or leg lifts or something working with strength equipment to build up their muscles in some archaic way.

All I could find, was something that referenced the tailor posture for child birth.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Transformation of Food Into Flesh
  
  

  Transformation of Food Into Flesh.– How strange this is — the transformation of food into human flesh, into human thoughts!  We eat a meal; it is composed of meat, bread, vegetables and liquids.  The more solid part is ground by the teeth, mixed with the different juices, dissolved, changed, organize and is swept through the body and the circulation of the blood.  Each organ sees as its own particular food as it passes.  Within the cells of the various tissues it is transformed into the soft, sensitive brain, or the hard, callous bone; here into the nerve of sight, there into gristle or tendon; here briny tears are formed, they are bland saliva; in the stomach, acid juice; in the skin, acrid perspiration; bile for digestion, oil for the hair, nails for the fingers, muscle for the strong arm of toil, and flesh and fat to give shade, form and beauty to the face.

   

  I think the previous section prepared me actually for this section.  In the previous set action the author sounded like he was speaking gibberish.  In this section the author or marbles at the ability of the body to turn one type of matter into another matter which is part of the human body or system.  Today I look at this process as a function, a program if you will run by the programmed DNA of the human system and control by the major organs.  In some ways my own interpretation is only slightly less obscure than the authors interpretation.  The other marvels at something that is relatively new and highly misunderstood where is I take it for granted.

   

  Neither one of our perspectives in that regard are more accurate than the other or may be a better way to say that is that we both have a perspective that equally valuable or valid.  The author doesn’t actually offer up any interpretation as to how the systems work or how it performs any of these items that they discuss, instead the author chooses just to remark on the fact that the actions are interesting even amazing.

  In many ways almost any system that we talk about today might have appeared equally as amazing to the author a hundred years ago.  Some of those systems could be interpreted better back then than they could stay such as the workings of kitchen faucets possibly as opposed to the workings of a Turing machine or computer neither of which had been invented as of the writing of this book, but both of which had been speculated on for many years.

   

  In many ways it’s these types of remarks it illustrates that the book is filled in large parts with what I might call science fiction or scientific interpretation or even a scientific editorial and not scientific fact.

• Today’s Medical Assistant – Last Centuries Family Member Care Giver
  
  

  A hundred years ago, the Book of Medicine would have helped to guided anyone in the household capable of reading in the arts of care giving, preventive maintenance and even healing.  Today, every facet of the medical world has a specialization level associated with it from the level of medical assistant to general practice doctors to surgeons.

  These days it also takes a lot more effort.  There are medical assistant school options that provide medical assistant training in courses that can be completed in less than a few months for under a thousand dollars.

  The Book of Medicine was written to provide the general tools that your average person might be confronted with in a health emergency or even to prevent one.  Times have changed significantly and the opportunities to help people in many ways have become greater in number and easier to grab.

• Proximity of Privy and Well.
  
  

  Proximity of Privy and Well.  — unless privy and well be located at considerable distance from each other, and further unless the nature of the ground be such that the flow from the privy will be away from the sources of the well, there is always great danger of the pollution of the well water with germs from the privy.  This also applies to nearby stable yards.  There are many authenticated cases of typhoid which have been directly traced to the proximity of wells to privies and stables, and the dangers should not be underestimated.

  Today, we often consider the injury that we sustain at the hands of others, but consider that 100 years ago, just living, building or improving your home could potentially create unintended results that could significantly impact your health.  Searching for a Seattle injury lawyer in a case where you have essentially poisoned yourself due to the poor design or layout of your water supply and privy or septic system would not do you much good.