The household physician : for the use of families, planters, seamen, and travellers : being a brief description, in plain language, of all the diseases of men, women, and children, with the newest and most approved methods of curing them / by Ira Warren.

  • Warren, Ira, 1806-1864.
Date:
1859
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Credit: The household physician : for the use of families, planters, seamen, and travellers : being a brief description, in plain language, of all the diseases of men, women, and children, with the newest and most approved methods of curing them / by Ira Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The shoulder blade lies upon the upper part of the back, forming the shoulder. It has a shallow cavity (glenoid cavity), into which is inserted the head of the upper arm bone. Several strong muscles are attached to the elevations of this bone, which keep it in its place, and move it about as circumstances require. The upper arm bone has its round head fastened in the glenoid cav- ity? by the strong capsular ligament, forming a joint capable of a great number of movements. At the elbow it is united with the ulna of the fore-arm. It is a long cylindrical bone, represented by Figure 9: 1, is the shaft of the bone ; 2, the large round head which fits into the glenoid cavity; 3, the surface which unites with the ulna. Of the two bones of the fore-arm, the ulna is on the inner side, and unites with the humerus, making an excellent hinge-joint. The other bone of the fore-arm, the radius, lies on the outside of the arm, — on the same side with the thumb, — and unites, or articulates, as we say, with the bones of the wrist. In Figure 10: 1, is the body of the ulna; 2, the shaft of the radius; 4, the articulating surface, with which the lower end of the humerus unites ; 5, the upper extremity of the ulna, called the olecranon process, which forms the elbow joint; 6, the point where the ulna articulate with the wrist. Fig. 9. Fig. 11. Fig. 10. The eight bones of the ivrist or carpus are ranged in two rows, and being bound close together, do not admit of very free motion. In Figure 11: s, is the scaphoid bone; l, the semilunar bone; c, the cuneiform bone ; p, the pisiform bone ; t, t, the trapezium and trape- zoid bones; m, the os magnum; u, the cuneiform bone. The last/owr form the second row of carpal bones. 11,11, are the metacarpal bones of the hand ; 2, 2, the first range of the finger bones ; 3, 3, the second range of finger bones ; 4, 4, the third range of finger bones ; 5, 6, the bones of the thumb.