A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt.

  • Lemonnier, Céran.
Date:
1839
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Credit: A synopsis of natural history : embracing the natural history of animals, with human and general animal physiology, botany, vegetable physiology, and geology / translated from the latest French edition of C. Lemmonnier, with additions from the works of Cuvier, Dumaril, Lacepede, etc., and arranged as a text book for schools by Thomas Wyatt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mixed with an earthy matter (phosphate of lime). Their structure is varied, being, in the long bones, compact in the middle, with a central cavity, and the extremities spongy; while in the flat bones it is lamellated on the external sur- face, but the internal substance is cellular. The bones are divided, according to their form, into long, flat and thick. The first are found in the limbs, the second about cavities, the third wherever mobility and solidity are to be united. The bones are connected among themselves by approxi- mation, without any intervening substance forming sutures, by cartilaginous ^substance, by tendinous bands {ligaments), in the movable articulations enclosing a cavity in the form of a sac : these are termed capsular ligaments. The place of union in bones is called articulation; of this there are two kinds, movable and immovable; upon the sur- faces of bones articulated in the former manner certain re- sisting substances are found resembling a kind of animal pasteboard; these are denominated cartilages. A liquid called synovia moistens them and facilitates their move- ments. The Bead Comprehends the cranium and face. The cranium or skull consists of eight bones, which form a cavity for con- taining the brain. These bones, which are flat, are the frontal before; the occipital behind and below; the parietal at the sides and above ; the temporal at the sides and below; the sphenoid before and below ; and the ethemoid in the ante- rior part of the base of the cranium. The face consists of the upper and lower maxilla or jaws ; the upper jaw contains six pair of bones, and one single bone, and sixteen teeth. These are the two superior maxillary, the two nasal, the two ossa ungues, the two molar, the two palate, the two spongy bones, and the vomer, which last forms the partition of the nose. The lower jaw has but one bone besides the teeth ; it is the inferior maxillary bone. The Trunk Consists of the spine, the thorax and the pelvis.