. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . of a mem-brane is liable to spread to the whole ; that disease of the external surfacemay spread to the internal mucous membrane, and vice versa; and thatdisease of a part of the skin may be translated to a remote part of themucous membrane, and the contrary. These statements comprise afundamental law of nature, which, in all our efforts either to preservehealth or to cure disease, should ever be born
. The hydropathic family physician : a ready prescriber and hygienic adviser with reference to the nature, causes, prevention, and treatment of diseases, accidents, and casualties of every kind . of a mem-brane is liable to spread to the whole ; that disease of the external surfacemay spread to the internal mucous membrane, and vice versa; and thatdisease of a part of the skin may be translated to a remote part of themucous membrane, and the contrary. These statements comprise afundamental law of nature, which, in all our efforts either to preservehealth or to cure disease, should ever be borne in mind. There arefew if any diseases in which either the one or the other of these mem-branes is not largely implicated. Appendages of the Skin.—These are the nails and the hair. Theyare not vital in their structure, in the ordinary acceptation of the term,being destitute of blood-vessels and nerves; but their growth, conform-ation, and functions evince a degree of wisdom in adaptation not ex-ceeded in any part of the living fabric. The nails are composed of numbers of horny, semi-transparent scalesor plates. By a most curious process of nature, their growth, both in 416 Of the SECTION OF FINGER. Fig. 65. thickness and length, dependi upon the true skin. This latter may beeaid to be folded into a groove to receive the roots of the nail, as seenin fig. 64, and still more fully in fig 65. Fig. 64. Fig. 64 represents a section of skin on the end of n rj, the finger. The cuticle and nail, n, detached from the cutis and matrix, m. In fig. 66,1,1, represent the cnticle continued,under and around the root of the nail, at 8, 8, 8; 2,the nail; 4, bone of the finger; 5, fatty matterforming the finger ball, and constituting a bed orcushion at the end of the finger. In reference to the management ofthe nails, Dr. Wilson, in speaking ofthe harmonious growth of these partsin thickness and length, well remarks : What if we should willfully opposenature in her harmonious course, by
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