. 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 . .When the air is forced outward,the diaphragm ascends. SECTIONS OF THE OHEST AND ABDOMEN. Fig. 40 represents a front view of the chest and diaphragm; the latter relaxed. Thefront half of the ribs being cut away, the interior of the chest is exposed. C, c, C, c, repre-sent the cavity of the chest empty. D, D,D, D, the diaphragm, rising high in thecenter, and descending very low at thesides and behind.
. 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 . .When the air is forced outward,the diaphragm ascends. SECTIONS OF THE OHEST AND ABDOMEN. Fig. 40 represents a front view of the chest and diaphragm; the latter relaxed. Thefront half of the ribs being cut away, the interior of the chest is exposed. C, c, C, c, repre-sent the cavity of the chest empty. D, D,D, D, the diaphragm, rising high in thecenter, and descending very low at thesides and behind. The white space, at itsupper part, is its tendinous portion. A, A,the abdomen. Anatomical Description of theLungs, and other parts within theChest.—The trunk of the humanbody, which contains all its greatand more important organs, ex-cept the brain, may be comparedto a house two stories high. Inthe lower story, there are thestomach, liv^r, spleen, pancreas,bowels, kidneys, bladder, womb,etc. In the upper story, thereare the lungs, or lights, heart,and large blood-vessels. Thepartition, or diaphragm, betweenthese, nr the floor, as we may FK0NT V,KW 0F TUK cnE8T AND »iaphea«ii. Fig. su Op the Thorax, or Chest. say, of the upper story, as we have seen, crosses at the lower ribs. Ican not do better in giving my readers a description of the contents ofthe chest, than to quote the words of Dr. Erasmus Wilson, a verysuccinct and acwite writer on anatomy. Fig. 41.
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