. 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 . 1 BONES, MUSCLES, AND JOINTS. There are, in the human skeleton, 240 bones, including the teeth,Fig. 69. to wit: Skull s Ear 4 Face 14 Teeth 83 Trunk 64 Pelvis 4 Upper extremities 64 Lower 60 > «/fcs« Total 240 vtseJ?». ti jn adults, the bones of the human body are firm and hardin structure, and of a dull whitecolor. They are composed ofearth and lime, held togetherby gelatin, which is a gluey or
. 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 . 1 BONES, MUSCLES, AND JOINTS. There are, in the human skeleton, 240 bones, including the teeth,Fig. 69. to wit: Skull s Ear 4 Face 14 Teeth 83 Trunk 64 Pelvis 4 Upper extremities 64 Lower 60 > «/fcs« Total 240 vtseJ?». ti jn adults, the bones of the human body are firm and hardin structure, and of a dull whitecolor. They are composed ofearth and lime, held togetherby gelatin, which is a gluey oranimal substance. If we burna bone in a clear fire twenty orthirty minutes the animal sub-stance is destroyed, leaving itwhite and brittle. On the other hand, if we im-merse one of the smaller bonesin muriatic acid and water, oneproportion of the former to sixor eight of the latter, the earthymatter is removed, leaving thegelatinous portion in such astate that it can be bent or eventied in a knot without destroyingthe form of the original fig. 79 on p. 497. Bones in their earlier stages of formation are merely cartila- uklatioh or bonus to Brut. ginous; subsequently thev be-. 492 Op the Bones, Muscles, etc. come earthy when they are said to be ossified. Like all other part*of the body they are liable to constant change, having a system of Fig. TO.
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