The Knee-Pan.-The patella toward me pan is seen held firmly in position, giving greater strength and security to this important joint.  Around the ankle is observe the annular ligament, finding the long silvery thongs or tendons of the muscles of the legs, thus preventing their displacement.  It also towards security and string to the ankle joint, but not interfering with its elasticity in motion.  The foot shows us the natural position in shape in which the toes should be when encased in a boot or shoe.

This section relatively speaking does a decent job of sticking to the facts and avoids excessive and irrelevant language like I avoid beer pong tables.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Typhoid Poison from a Well
  
  

  Typhoid Poison from a Well.  — in a report of the American public health Association, Dr. Austin Flynn gives an account of an outbreak of typhoid fever in Vermont which it was possible to trace, in the most circumstantial way, to the poisoning of a well in some such method as has been described.  The young man traveling through the region by stagecoach was taken ill, and, when he could go no further, was left in a tavern and a little hamlet to be cared for, his illness soon proved to be typhoid fever.  A small watercourse, a shallow valley, by the village into two portions, each of which consisted of half a dozen houses or less.  In a few days new cases of the fever made their appearance in that part of the hamlet which the tavern along — every house, in fact, but one was invaded with this disease — whilst on the other side of the stream not a case occurred.  It appears that the tavern well, which was the only one up on that side of the village, furnish the water supply to all the families belonging there but one.  That one family had had a quarrel with the landlord of the hotel, and consequently deserted the tavern well for a more distant supply of drinking water, and so escape swallowing the specific poison of typhoid fever in the water by which all their neighbors were stricken down.

   

  In case you’re wondering, typhoid fever is spread by people that shed typhoid bacteria area this can happen when they handle food or drinking water that other people consume, or when the bacteria is exhausted into a sewage system that contaminate the water supply.  So it is possible that the people that became sick from typhoid fever in this example, became sick from close proximity with a very sick traveler, in addition to the pollution of that traveler with the water supply.  We rarely think of these problems today when we book time in las vegas suites or at a beech cottage, but the bacteria could still be propogated by people handling food. This is one of the prime reasons why people should wash their hands. Due to water treatment procedures, we are currently fortunate to have less exposure to contaminated drinking water, however when sewer lines break in coastal areas and people swim in the ocean near these breaks, the risk could go up.

  It is also very interesting to note, that in this passage a health association that Dr. Flynn worked with was noted as opposed to just a name.  This is a distinct improvement, and I think the first time it has occurred in 158 pages!

• How Can We Keep Healthy?-
  
  

  How Can We Keep Healthy?- the best answer to that question is, to be the child of healthy parents income from a sturdy stock.  The nurse at the mother’s breast and raise outdoors in the sunshine and fresh air, to sleep at plenty of air in the room at night.  To have a natural movement of the files once a day.  And through childhood to receive three meals a day consisting of pure wholesome food, plenty of milk, free from germs, pure water and sleep from 10 to 12 hours a night throughout childhood, depending on the age.  To play into work which will be in the air and develop the muscles gradually.  Every child should be vaccinated anytime after the six-month and repeat at the seventh year, to be done at once, in addition during an epidemic of smallpox.  It is not necessary or write for a child to have scarlet fever, measles, diphtheria, etc., as so many people think.  They are often followed by deafness, heart disease, nervous diseases and paralysis which nature never meant to inflict a child with to go through life.

  Children’s teeth, eyes and throat should be examined at intervals and many defects corrected.  The tonsils and adenoids (growths would stop up the nose and prevent air being breathed properly) should be removed.  Enlarged tonsils often cause deafness by preventing air from the throat reaching the ear cavity due to stopping the opening of the Eustachian tube which leads from the throat to the ear.

  Children should not be taught to many branches at school.  Every school should be well lighted with plenty of fresh air.  Many of the smaller schools are now being built on open ropes of buildings in large cities or in platforms placed out of doors with just a roof overhead to protect the children.  All schools should be held in the open where possible.  There is absolutely no chance of cold that the children are warmly dressed in experiments are proven that the children are healthier, more attentive and mentally deficient where they had been in school in the open air.

  This kicks off an interesting theme that I have seen throughout this section of the book as I took a sneak peak into things.  Its the concept that fresh air all by itself is important to health.  Now, I suspect that the real benefit to good health is actually the absence of pollution, which was a real problem even 100 years ago with coal soot and other contributors of new industrial run off problems.  If we could time travel, I think one of the interesting things we’d discover if we could send people back to large and small cities armed with digital cameras is that pollution was likely very rampant 100 years ago.  This was very likely a significant health problem.

  That said, keeping people outside in the fresh air just for the sake of being outside in the fresh air regardless of the temperature is approximately where the science runs into pseudoscience and misunderstanding.

• Chart 3
  
  

  Here are the images as promised for Chart 3 covering the eye, the hands, the feet, the ear and the leg.