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Title: The new medical world. A book for reference and consultation, containing a thorough description of disease, with the latest and best methods for its treatment
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Maryott, Erastus Edgar, 1845-1904
Subjects: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: Springfield, Mass., The Hampden publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rt has been made to present the subject of anatomy sobriefly and interestingly, and so associated with practicallessons, that it will be appreciated by every one. The skeleton, orframework of this wonderful human machine, known as the body,consists of a large variety of connected bones, which support it andgive it form. The human skeleton itself, when brought from the closet, awakensunjneasant associations, and is usualty regarded as frightful andhideous, yet when covered and draped with the various tissues, asthe muscles, and rounded out with the adipose deposits, embellishedwith the supple and yielding skin, and filled with animal life, easilyranks as the most beautiful work of art, or as the most intricatepiece of mechanism. The bones are developed in cartilaginous tissue, beginning atpoints called the centers of ossification. Bone is one of the hardesttissues in the human body, and is composed principally of lime phos-phates, various salts and fat. The microscope shows that bone A
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The Human Skeleton—Fuont View. a, cranial bones ; b, cervical vertebra*; c, clavicle ; rf, humerus ; e, sacrum ; /, ulna;g, carpus ; h, metacarpus ; i, phalanges ; j, femur ; k, tibia ; /, fibula; rn, tarsus ; n, meta-tarsus ; o, phalanges ; p, pelvis containing ilium, ischium :m<l pubcs ; 7, radius ; r. lumbarvertebnc ;«, sternum. THE NEW MEDICAL WORLD. 151 tissue is not so compact as it appears, for it is traversed by numerouscanals (the Haversian) which give lodgement to blood vessels andnumerous nerves. There are over two hundred bones in the humanbody. Some are long, like the bones of the leg; some short, likethe bones of the hand; and some are flat, like the bones of theskull; while others are of irregular shape, as the vertebrae whichunite to form the spinal column. The bones are connected together at the joints by strong ligamentsso as to favor all necessary and graceful movements. It is customaryto begin the study of medicine with the bones, because they are thefoundati

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