First aid in the Royal Navy.

Date:
[1914]
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Credit: First aid in the Royal Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is a cup-shaped socket, into which fits the rounded head of the thigh-bone, forming the bali-and-socket joint of the hip. The thigh-bone is like a gigantic drum-stick, and ends at the knee in a hinge-joint with the strong shin-bone which can be readily felt under the skin. On the outer side of the shin-bone is attached the slender brooch bone, so called from its resem- blance to the pin of a brooch. In front of the knee-joint is seen the knee-cap, a rounded piece of bone about the size and shape of a 5s. piece. Its use is to take the rub of the thigh muscles off the front of the knee-joint. At the ankle the foot joins on in a hinge-joint. The foot is composed of many small bones of peculiar shapes, and a description of them would be too compli- cated for this lecture. Returning again to the backbone: on either side twelve ribs are attached. Each of these is like the handle of a bucket and loops round the chest from the backbone behind to the breast-bone in front (see illustration). The breast bone is a flattened dagger-shaped bone, tying under the skin, and its shape can be practically seen and