Volume 2

The anatomy of the human body ... Designed (chiefly) for the use of naval practitioners, and by way of supplement to a work, entitled, The marine surgeon ... to which is [sic] subjoined, some physiological tracts / [William Northcote].

  • Northcote, William, -1783?
Date:
1772
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The anatomy of the human body ... Designed (chiefly) for the use of naval practitioners, and by way of supplement to a work, entitled, The marine surgeon ... to which is [sic] subjoined, some physiological tracts / [William Northcote]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    enter obliquely through their middles. It is alfo the organ of fecretion for the bony mat¬ ter, as the membrana adipofa is for the fat. The fenfibility of the bones, is wholly owing to this membrane, (periofteum) for when di¬ verted of this, they may be fa wed, cut, or burnt, without pain. It gives the determi¬ nation and figure to bones, as is evident from this, that when it is wounded, exoftoles, tophi, and caries, arife in the part. It is of different thicknefs in different parts, but in general, the internal is vaftly thinner than the external. It is generally faid to arife from the dura mater of the brain, but Heifter is of a different opinion, as the pe¬ riofteum is evidently formed at the fame time with the dura mater in the foetus. The bones are connected together various ways, according to the various purpofes they are to ferve, fome being intended for mo¬ tion, others for reft, and the fupport of the incumbent parts only. The following table of ofteology fhews, at one view, the feveral bones of the human body, &c. (the fefamoidal bones excepted) and whereto they belong. A TABLE