Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OURSELVES, OUR FOOD, AND OUR PHYSIC. CHAPTER I. THE ANATOMY OR GENERAL STRUCTURE OF THE BODY. The Bones — Joints — Cartilages — Ligaments — Aluscles —Fat — Cellular Tissue—Skin—Hair—Heart- — Lungs —Windpipe— Gullet — Stomach and Intestines — The Liver — Spleen — Pancreas, or Sweetbread — Kidnejs — Bladder—Head—Brain—Nerves — Arteiies —Veins — Capillaries — Lym- ])hatics—Absorbents—Lacteals—Mucous and Serous Membranes—&c„ &c. Everything in Nature is acknowledged to be governed by Law. It is singular, however, that while science endeavours to reduce this to actual fact in all other studies, those of Health and Disease have not hitherto been arranged under any law whatever. In the investigation of those subjects it is abso- lutely necessary to be acquainted with tlio constituent jiarts of the body—to know their uses and chemical 2)ropei‘ties, and to take an enlarged and combined view of their whole inseparable I)heuomena. This I jiurpose doing in the briefest language. A.vatomy is the study of the general structure of all organized bodies, tlie luunan frame being composed of tlio following parts:— The Bones.—Man in his exalted iiosition in nature is erect, his body being suppoi-tcd by a framework of bones ; his feet, curiously and beautifully formed, act as pedestals, and 8upj)ort him in all the duties of locomotion. To facilitate this, the toes are composed of many bones; the ankles b'eing indebted to their flexibility from the same cause. Bising above these arc his legs, each of which is composed of two bones from the ankle to the knee : the thighs consist each (d' a single bone, whilst a knee-cap protects the front of each joint. Each thigh bone is inserted into a comiiosito bone, called the pelvis in front, the hij)s on either side, luul sat^rum B