Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools elementaryanato00hitc Year: 1869 AND PHYSIOLOGY. 37 a-. ?.v .• S>-: sification, begins at Fig. 35. certain points, and continues until the whole is completed as is seen in the Fig. 36. In some of these bones there is but one of these centers, or points, w here ossification commences, while in the Sphenoid there are 12. 97. Number of Bones.—The num- ber of bones in the human system is reckoned differently by different anatom- ists since many of the bones are well exhibited only in hard working or well developed


Elementary anatomy and physiology : for colleges, academies, and other schools elementaryanato00hitc Year: 1869 AND PHYSIOLOGY. 37 a-. ?.v .• S>-: sification, begins at Fig. 35. certain points, and continues until the whole is completed as is seen in the Fig. 36. In some of these bones there is but one of these centers, or points, w here ossification commences, while in the Sphenoid there are 12. 97. Number of Bones.—The num- ber of bones in the human system is reckoned differently by different anatom- ists since many of the bones are well exhibited only in hard working or well developed mus- cular subjects. The number 246 will be given in this book as taken from Eras- mus Wilson, whose work on Anatomy is adopted as the text book in nearly all the medical schools of this country. This in- cludes the teeth, and sesamoid bones, of which the latter are not constant in every individual. They are summed up as follows:


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