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Powers of the Hand - Skill of the hand

March 1st, 2008 at 5:31 am » Comments (0)

Powers of the Hand. – and how very good and useful or its endowments! How wondrously adapted to the uses to which it is daily applied! It’s elegance of outline, delicacy of mold and beauty of color has ever made it the attractive study of the artist; whilst its elasticity, flexibility and strength, combined with [...]



Bony Frame of the Hand - Palm of the Hand

March 1st, 2008 at 5:24 am » Comments (0)

Bony Frame of the Hand. – on turning over this flap we behold the bony framework of this wonderful organ. This seemed to consist of a number of bones, so exquisitely arranged as to combine the greatest possible degree of flexibility and strength.
Palm of the Hand. – below this is given an elegant, and the [...]



The Hand- Its Mechanism and Wonderful Endowments- Engraving of The Hand

March 1st, 2008 at 5:17 am » Comments (0)

The Hand; Its Mechanism and Wonderful Endowments.
Engraving of The Hand. – to tell one that this exquisite colored engraving represents a human hand seems almost like questioning his sanity. Yet such as; but how few there are who can give an intelligent account of the hand, describe its beautiful arrangements and complex mechanism, we’re told [...]



Wonders of the Spiral Plate

March 1st, 2008 at 5:11 am » Comments (0)

Wonders of the Spiral Plate.-if this curious and artistic spiral play, which is seen to wine 2 ½ times around, could be enrolled and made to stand in an upright position, you would make a beautiful microscopic heart, that of a thousand strings, but of 3000 strings, and if it were possible to strike these [...]



Show of Ear Canals

March 1st, 2008 at 5:06 am » Comments (0)

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 Eardrum

March 1st, 2008 at 4:51 am » Comments (0)

The Eardrum.-on the back of this flap is seeing a strikingly natural representation of the middle ear, the tympanum or drum, as it is frequently called. For the bottom of the tympanum is observed the Eustachian tube, through which is conveyed air from the pharynx to the middle ear. Across this chamber is seen stretched [...]



THE EAR AND IT’S WONDERS - The External Ear

March 1st, 2008 at 4:49 am » Comments (0)

THE EAR AND IT’S WONDERS.
The External Ear. – the organ of hearing consists of three parts: the external ear, the middle ear or tympanum, and the internal ear or a labyrinth. The external part of the air represented in the colored engraving is very realistic of that essential appendage to this important special organ of [...]



Wonders of the Eye.

March 1st, 2008 at 4:47 am » Comments (0)

Wonders of the Eye. – the human eye is one of the most wonderful, as well as delicate, organs of the body. It is the window through which the heart, mind and soul of man shines. Sorrow or joy, reformers, pain or pleasure, sunshine or shadow or reflected through this wondrous camera of light; the [...]



Muscles of the Eye

March 1st, 2008 at 4:43 am » Comments (0)

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, [...]



The Eye and Its Wonders

October 10th, 2007 at 4:53 am » Comments (0)

Beautiful Plate of the Eye.–The beautiful flesh-colored engraving at the right-hand top corner of this exquisite anatomical plate gives a strikingly natural, life-size representation of the human eye, together with its external appendages, the eyebrows, the eyelids, and the lachrymal or tear glands.

As I write this I have not published pictures of Chart 3, but [...]