Muscles of the Thigh and Leg.-turning to the next colored illustration, with a graphic of a full view of the deeper muscular arrangements play together with a striking his harvests applied to the lower extremity. Delete these beautiful, silvery threads are the wires which carry the behest of the will to the muscular lovers, and whose commands the muscles probably obey; and give to the leg is wonderful and diversified endowments. To stand erect is a very difficult and complex attack, in the process of forming is a no less difficult for complex function. Few persons ever realize the peril involved in walking, and it has only become safe by constant practice.
We are finally finishing up the last sections of the first book and I will be glad to get beyond the basic descriptions of images of the human body and move onto the last century view on weight loss pills (or roots) and other pragmatic cures for the common and uncommon ailments of humans.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- Another Case of Infection (Cholera Reference to teawater pump in London 1854)
Another Case of Infection.-Another famous illustration is found in the history of the "tea water pump" of broad Street, Near Golden square, London, which during the cholera visitation of 1854, killed nearly 500 persons in a single week, in one of the fashionable localities of the city. It has long been known that water containing five or six grains of lime and magnesium to the gallon is much to be preferred for making tea to water of any other quality. This is because the line precipitates the astringent matter of the leaf, yet does not interfere with the solution of the desirable constituents; and hence certain wells which have the proper proportion of mineral matter come to be valued very highly by persons of nice taste.
The images represent a tea water pump in New York(left) placed over a natural spring (right) that had existed in Manhattan long before Europeans came to the colonies and helped create situations where cholera could break out.
This reference to the 1854 Cholera outbreak would have been relatively recent in the minds of many. It would have only been about 60 years old at the time of this articles printing, however, when this book was first published, it may have been referenced when the epidemic was only 20 – 30 years old possibly. In terms of recency or relevancy, we today might have a similar perspective on the massacre at Jonestown or the Kennedy killing. It would have made a much bigger impression on people that heard the news than say a case of food poisoning resulting from a problem with popcorn machines or something in a bar or movie theater.
- Show of Ear Canals
Show of Ear Canals. – the semicircular canals, and the cochlea, so named for its resemblance to a snail shell, are also typically shown. And the nice colored illustration we observe a graphic and truthful view of the delicate internal arrangement and mechanism of the internal part of the organ of hearing. Here we observe the winding stair of the cochlea, over the surface of which the delicate fibrils of the auditory nerve expand, and the minute fibers of the Corti, called from their discoverer, are seeing a range with geometrical precision, the longest at the bottom in the shortest at the top.
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