Anatomy and physiology : designed for academies and families . Fig. 117. An outline is here presented of a female, to show the condition of thebones as they appear after death, in every woman who has habitually worn the false ribs, from the lower end of the breast bone, are unnaturally cramped in-wardly towards the spine, so that the liver, stomach, and other digestive organs inthe Immediate vicinity, are pressed into such small compass, that their functions areinterrupted, and in fact all the vessels, bones, and ortrans, on which the individual isconstantly depending for health, are
Anatomy and physiology : designed for academies and families . Fig. 117. An outline is here presented of a female, to show the condition of thebones as they appear after death, in every woman who has habitually worn the false ribs, from the lower end of the breast bone, are unnaturally cramped in-wardly towards the spine, so that the liver, stomach, and other digestive organs inthe Immediate vicinity, are pressed into such small compass, that their functions areinterrupted, and in fact all the vessels, bones, and ortrans, on which the individual isconstantly depending for health, are more or less distorted and enfeebled. This figuremav be regarded as the exact shape and figure of a short-lived female. Fig. 118. Mav be contemplated as an equally true model of the frame of anotherwho, so far as life depends upon a well-formed bodv, would live to a good old ageHere is breadth, space for the lungs to act in, and the short ribs are thrown outward-ly instead of being curved and twisted towards the spine, by which ample space isafforded for th
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