Category: Science - Biology
The text of this book has been preserved as in the original, apart from repositioning of some footnotes and illustrations closer to the relevant text. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_.
The text of this book has been preserved as in the original, apart from repositioning of some footnotes and illustrations closer to the relevant text. Italic text is denoted by...
2. Part 2In MAN the whole weight of the body has to be borne upon _two_ feet; often it is balanced upon _one_. The foot is, consequently, spread out; and all the bones, from the heel to...
3. Part 3An instance of a similar kind of mechanism to this of the joints between the foot and the leg is presented by the mode in which the head is secured upon the back-bone. We can no...
4. Part 4It seems that the several races of mankind are usually rather proud of their peculiarities, and that each has an inclination to make much of, and artificially exaggerate, the po...
5. Part 5Bear in mind that for the firm vigorous walk there is required, not only the well-formed limb, but also the manly and determined WILL, acting in a decided and authoritative mann...
6. Part 6+----------+---+------------+------+-------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-------------+ | | H | | |C S| H | R | H | F | T | F | Pelvis. | | | e | Middle |Spine,|i f k| u...
7. Part 7Secondly, the “Shoulder-joint” is so made as to permit a great variety and extensive range of movements to take place. We can move the arm forwards or backwards, as in throwing...
8. Part 8The wrist and hand are bent forwards upon the forearm by means of three muscles (A, B, C, fig. 65). These all pass downwards from the inner side of the lower end of the armbone....
9. Part 9Thus the hand becomes an organ of expression and an index of character. What would the nervous young gentleman in a morning call give to be quit of these tale-telling members; o...
10. Part 10There are also in the skin a number of little GLANDS. One set of these are called “oil-glands;” for their office is to furnish an oily, or waxy, substance, which serves to keep...
11. Part 11Whether any fancy of the like kind gave origin to the notion still prevalent that a wound or injury between the thumb and the fore-finger is peculiarly likely to be followed by...
12. Part 1278 176 Transverse section of the Nail and Skin, made vertically. _a_, _a_, _cuticle_; _b_, _rete_; _c_, _c_, _cutis_; _d_, _d_, lines running through the cutis to the _papillæ_;...