Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 1. Fig. 2. internal organs in a healthy adult male after death. They also indicatethe general relation of the viscera to the fixed parts of the trunk andthoracic walls, the study of which is far more useful than learning thecontents of various artificial regions marked out by lines on the surfaceof the body. In studying all such relations of the viscera after death, it should beremembered that the organs do not occupy exactly the same position inthe living body. Expiration is the last act of life, and this last expira-tion is
Clinical lectures on the principles and practice of medicine . Fig. 1. Fig. 2. internal organs in a healthy adult male after death. They also indicatethe general relation of the viscera to the fixed parts of the trunk andthoracic walls, the study of which is far more useful than learning thecontents of various artificial regions marked out by lines on the surfaceof the body. In studying all such relations of the viscera after death, it should beremembered that the organs do not occupy exactly the same position inthe living body. Expiration is the last act of life, and this last expira-tion is usually more extensive and forced than the expiration of tranquillife. In the dead body, the lungs shrink up within the position thatthey usually occupy during life; at the same time the heart and itsvessels retract, an i the abdominal organs follow the diaphragm somewhatupwards.—[Sibson.) The remarkable changes which occasionally occur in the naturalposition of the internal viscera may be judged of from a ease whichoccurred to Professor Easton of Glasgo
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