General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 3 (of 3)

They occupy upon the cranium all the space which corresponds with the occipital, parietal, the squamous portion of the temporal and a small portion of the frontal bones. Their l...

This thickness takes from the epidermis the transparency it has in the other parts; it is whitish and opake even on the hand and the foot. Thus the epidermis which, in negroes n...

The external covering of the hair appears to be of the nature of the epidermis. It has in fact almost all the attributes of it. 1st. The hairs of the head burn exactly like this...

Though the secretions are not active in the fœtus, the glandular system is in general much developed. All the salivary glands and the pancreas are larger in proportion than afte...

7th. Cold carried to a great degree acts also upon the cutaneous organ, and produces different effects, according to its intensity. The first of these effects is very analogous...

Hence why when the impression of a body would be injurious, these fluids are poured out in greater quantity upon their surfaces. The sound which enters the urethra and remains i...

The mucous membranes occupy the interior of the cavities which communicate with the skin by the different openings this covering has on the surface of the body. Their number at...

As we advance in age, the adhesion of the internal surface of the dermis with the subjacent cellular texture becomes much greater. It is more difficult to detach one from the ot...

The great arterial trunks winding in the glands, communicate to them an internal motion very favourable to their functions. This motion is so much the more evident, as almost al...

This system, one of the most important in the animal economy, differs from most others in this, that the texture which is peculiar to it is not precisely the same in all the org...

The mucous epidermis is quickly reproduced when it has been removed. Destitute of every kind of animal and organic sensibility, it is in this respect, destined like the skin, to...

I perceive that we cannot infer from what takes place in the intestines, what happens in the pituitary, palatine membrane, &c. because though analogous, the organization may be...

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the seventeenth day of April, A.D. 1822, in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, _Richardson & Lord_, of the said...

1st. We very often see these membranes abandon and cover again successively their respective organs; thus the broad ligaments, at a great distance from the womb in the ordinary...

We cannot make these experiments upon dead bodies which we rarely have in the hospitals till fifteen hours or more after death; but by killing dogs by hunger, which, when long c...

This texture comprehends, 1st, the chorion; 2d, that which is called the reticular body; 3d, the papillæ. The chorion is the essential part of the dermis; it is that which deter...

In the muscles of animal life, when the contraction ceases, the muscle does not in general go back itself to the state it was in antecedent to the contraction, but it is drawn b...

The cutaneous exhalants do not appear to be everywhere equally abundant. The face and chest contain many of them; we sweat easily in these places. On the back and the extremitie...

1st. However strong the adhesions of the synovial membrane may be, they can be destroyed without a solution of continuity, by a slow, careful dissection begun at the place where...

M. Thillaye showed me portions of skin taken from a cemetery, in which every thing that filled the dermoid spaces had disappeared, and in which these spaces and their dried fibr...

I say first that there are certain cases in the natural state, in which the other organs being excited, the glandular is brought into action. This is especially remarkable in th...

At birth, when respiration and digestion suddenly commence, the secretions increase, the mucous system acquires a remarkable degree of activity. It is instantly excited powerful...

The action of cold upon the cutaneous organ produces many sympathetic effects, especially when this action takes place while we are sweating. The term repercussion of transpirat...

Hence it is not astonishing that the diseases which especially put in action the organic sensibility and the insensible contractility of the same species, should be so frequent...

The softness of the mucous corion is also very variable; in the nasal fossæ, in the stomach and the intestines, it is really a kind of organized velvet. The name of villous memb...

We have seen the mucous system exhibiting in each part where it is found, numerous differences of structure and varying in each region and in each organ. The serous system varie...

It appears in general that the course of the fluids in the excretories is much less rapid than that of the blood in the veins and even than that of the lymph in the absorbents;...

The contractility of texture is, in the system of which we are treating, in proportion to the number of fleshy fibres. Thus, all things being equal, the rectum, when empty, cont...

Not only the quality, but also the quantity of the fluids contained in the organic muscles, has an influence upon their contractility. 1st. The word plethora is certainly employ...

Habit extends its empire, in relation to the skin, even to our manners themselves. Decency is in this respect a thing of comparison. An Indian woman, with nothing but a narrow c...

Every fluid differing from the blood, can be separated from it to be afterwards transmitted to an organ, but in one of the three following ways; 1st, by secretion, a function ch...

Vesicatories depend upon the same principle. Their first effect is to fill with blood the cutaneous capillary system, where they are applied, to produce in it a sudden erysipela...

The different phenomena which the hair, the epidermis, the skin, and in general all the external organs experience in the successive ages, are wholly owing, like those of the in...

_Influence of the cerebral nerves upon the organic properties of the other parts._—They are foreign to these properties.—They have not there any known influence, 1st, upon the c...

It arises, 1st, from a fibrous substance; 2d, from a cartilaginous one.—It owes its resistance to the first and its elasticity to the second.—Action of caloric, air and water up...

_Sanguineous exhalation.—Hemorrhage of the excrementitious exhalants._—Hemorrhage from the skin.—Hemorrhages from the mucous surfaces.—They take place by exhalation.—Proofs.—Exp...

_Forms._—They represent sacs without an opening.—Difference from the fibrous capsules.—These capsules are wanting in the greatest number of articulations.—Experiments.—Proofs of...