The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . Wrist Bones—Example of theShort Bones. Shoulder Blade—Example of theFlat Bones. Fig. 38. are thin, broad, flat plates, intended to afford extensive protection tothe parts beneath, or to provide a wide surface for the attachmentof muscles. The bones of the skull, the breast bone, and the shoulderblades, are examples of flat bones, one of which the shoulder blade,is shown in figure 37. Irregular or Mixed Bones are thosewhich, on account of their shape,cannot be groupe
The body and its ailments: a handbook of familiar directions for care and medical aid in the more usual complaints and injuries . Wrist Bones—Example of theShort Bones. Shoulder Blade—Example of theFlat Bones. Fig. 38. are thin, broad, flat plates, intended to afford extensive protection tothe parts beneath, or to provide a wide surface for the attachmentof muscles. The bones of the skull, the breast bone, and the shoulderblades, are examples of flat bones, one of which the shoulder blade,is shown in figure 37. Irregular or Mixed Bones are thosewhich, on account of their shape,cannot be grouped either under thelong, short or flat bones. Examplesare seen in the chain of bones whichmake up the spinal column, thevertebrae, as they are called, and inthe jaw bones. Figure 38 shows, asan example of th^ irregular bones, avertebra. \:r ^ The body containsWo hundred andirregular Bones. four distinct bones. These are jo) ^ together, and form what is called the skeleton. The skull is a. A Vertebra — Example of the The Back Bone. 49 posed of 8 bones; the face of 14; the ears of 6; the backbone of26; the chest of 26; the upper limbs of 64; the lower limbs of60. Children have a few more bones than adults, as a number oftheir bones afterward unite to form one. These bones grouped together make up the three great divisionsof the body, the head, the trunk, and the extremities. The head includes the skull and face. The skull is a large, bonycavity, made up of eight wide, thin and arched bones, immovablydovetailed into each other. It contains the brain, and gives passageto the spinal marrow through a hole in its lower part, communicat-ing with the canal of the backbone. The face is formed of fourteenbones, the principal being the upper and lower Fis-39- jaws, and of the organs of sight, smell andtaste. These bones, like those of the skull, areof complicated forms and difficult to backbone or spine, is the main supportof the trunk of the body. It is composed of
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