| A Practical Physiology |
| of the structure and action of our bodies is enough to reveal |
| 7. Chemical Compounds in the Body. We must keep in mind that, with |
| turn, and each half is a complete amoeba. When we come a little higher |
| digestion to simpler bodies with fewer molecules, such as carbon dioxid, |
| which give elasticity to the skin and to the coats of the arteries. The |
| consists chiefly of a large number of bones, and is called the |
| Canals, Canaliculi , Which Connect The Lacun And The Haversian Canals. |
| A, palate process of upper jawbone; |
| 38. How the Head and Spine are Joined together. The head rests upon |
| hinge joint at the elbow. It is prevented from moving too far back by a |
| of the strong tendon of the calf of the leg, called the tendon of |
| others, long and cylindrical; and a large number very irregular |
| custom is one of the most ancient and widespread with which we are |
| Narcotic Like Tobacco Retards Cell Growth, And Thus Hinders The Building |
| form and proportion. We call these muscular tissues voluntary |
| quickly over them in the form of a wave. They are usually stimulated by |
| of the hand contribute to its marvelous dexterity and flexibility. The |
| movements the feet are kept more or less apart to enlarge the basis of |
| of the inebriate, his thick speech, wandering eye, and lolling head. |
| the knee can be distinctly felt when the muscles which bend the knee are |
| [NOTE. The Incessant Changes in Muscular Tissue. "In every tiny |
| shoulders become square, the awkward gait disappears, and there is seen a |
| ceaselessly, has its periods of absolute rest to alternate with those of |
| Every child above ten years of age should be taught to swim. The art, |
| all the tissues and organs of the body, and stimulate them to renewed |
| substances are being broken up into simpler combinations. So long as life |
| production of this energy must be taken in the food. The carbohydrates |
| this which blackens a silver spoon. Eggs furnish a convenient and |
| are of use chiefly for the sugar, vegetable acids, and salts they contain. |
| of the great variety of alcoholic beverages, the prevalence of their |
| especially from its influence upon health. It enables food to be more |
| Experiment 50. Boil the milk as before, and allow it to cool; then |
| being marked by fleshy pillars which arch up from the sides to form the |
| the inner side of the lower jaw, and the sublingual is on the floor |
| because it is near the heart. The other opening, by which the food leaves |
| Begins To Be Turbid. In B And C There Is No Change. Even After Long |
| ounces. It consists of two lobes, the right and the left, the right being |
| material, by pouring it, in a state of solution, into the hepatic vein. It |
| and at last reach the heart, thence to be distributed to the tissues. |
| food digestion. |
| Fullness, Bilious Attacks, And Dyspepsia Are Some Of The After Effects Of |
| 167. Practical Points about Eating. We should not eat for at least |
| Ice Water, It May Require Half An Hour Or More For The Stomach To Regain |
| as chyme, into the intestines, but is seized by the absorbents, borne into |
| that is, not merely a disturbed mode of action, but a destruction of the |
| In Each Tube An Equal Amount Of Well Washed Fibrin, Plug The Tubes With |
| 178. Physical Properties of Blood. The blood has been called the |
| in the fibrin. |
| to glide upon one another with the least possible amount of friction.[33] |
| arteries, the veins, and the capillaries, and these differ |
| walls of the capillaries are admirably adapted for the important |
| Contraction Of The Auricles, Two Fifths By The Contraction Of The |
| blood. |
| thickened, making the ventricles smaller, and so fail to do its duty in |
| One In Every Four Of Tobacco Users Is Subject, In Some Degree, To This |
| Experiment 107. Take off the tapering glass tube, or, in the place |
| tubes, which allow them to stretch and bend readily with the movements of |
| complemental air. |
| 212. The Nervous Control of Respiration. It is a matter of common |
| the pressure of oxygen in the blood is less than that in the air cells, |
| an irritation of the nostrils or eyes. In the beginning of a cold in the |
| 221. Ventilation. The question of a practicable and economical system |
| materials in the tissues, produce an amount of heat which is efficient to |
| liver, where, by the baneful directness of its presence, it produces a |
| narcotic on the nervous system, but a morbid state of the larynx, trachea, |
| General Way Absorption and Excretion. |
| the soles of the feet. |
| carbon dioxid passes out through the skin, but not more than 1/50 as much |
| absorbed by the lymphatics in those parts where the skin is thin, as in |
| Blood Vessels, So That The Blood Is Forced Back, As It Were, Into The |
| within the scope of this book. |
| people are less able to resist the extreme changes of temperature than are |
| of certain nitrogenous substances known as urea and uric acid, a |
| work. Regarding our bodily structure as a kind of living machine, we have |
| B, a medullated nerve fiber at a node or constriction of Ranvier, the |
| 3. The medulla oblongata. |
| nerve influences from above downwards that shall result in muscular |
| one of the openings of the medulla oblongata, and extends, as do the |
| parts of the body to which they send branches become paralyzed, and have |
| "thinking center" to control every act of our daily life. If we had to |
| emotions produced by hearing of one, may excite nausea and vomiting. |
| the waste of the body exceeds the repair; but when asleep, the waste is |
| with a poisonous liquid, and bearing only a limited supply of |
| is disqualified for any responsible labor. No railroad company, no |
| results oftenest fall. Beyond doubt, thousands of children have been |
| pure, untainted air. The free use of tobacco by young people dulls the |
| itself is injured from disease or accident, and cannot receive the |
| Experiment 139. To Illustrate How The Sense Of Touch Is A Matter |
| after the other. As soon as the nostrils are opened the difference is at |
| are more highly endowed with this sense than is man. The dog, for example, |
| Almost Entirely Of Blood Vessels And Nerves. As The Choroid Approaches The |
| a ligament called the suspensory ligament. This ligament not only |
| and the focus falls beyond the retina, which is too near the cornea. In |
| It Is Richly Supplied With Blood Vessels And Nerves. After Lining The Lids |
| to the eyesight. Avoid the use, so far as possible, especially in a |
| visible. The nerves controlling the circulation of the eye are partially |
| and tighten and relax the drum; the other is attached to the stirrup, and |
| Experiment 161. With a blindfolded person test his sense of the |
| hand with ether, and observe how the sensibility is abolished. |
| dots of the same size. A and B will then appear to be farther apart than |
| are of great importance in the production of the voice. These cartilages |
| and the other cut in the same way from behind. |
| stomach interferes with the free play of the diaphragm. A sip of water |
| 360. Incised and Lacerated Wounds. An incised or cut wound |
| heart. In all such cases send at once for the doctor. |
| Frozen, Or Frost Bitten. No Warm Air, Warm Water, Or Fire Should Be |
| lips or tongue. Do not try to make the sufferer swallow any drink. |
| [illustration: Fig. 166. The Marshall Hall Method. (first Position.)] |
| The Sick Room For Many And Obvious Reasons. The Proper Making Of A |
| irritant and narcotic properties and in which the symptoms are of a mixed |
| been carelessly taken and found to be poison. |
| ] |
| germicide, but is exceedingly poisonous and can be bought only under |
| for data which cannot be well obtained at first hand by young students. |
| of one can be secured of some medical man in the vicinity. Separate bones |
| The pulmonary artery may now be opened from above so as to display the |
| a red heart on a bright blue ground. In a dark room lighted by a candle |
| inner border of the patella is thicker and more prominent than the outer, |
| Between The Zygoma And The Ear. The Facial Artery Can Be Distinctly Felt |
| Azygos (Gr. a, without, and zugos, a yoke). Without fellow; not paired. |
| Cornea (lat. Cornu , A Horn). The Transparent Horn Like Substance Which |
| Foramen. A hole, or aperture. |
| Membrana Tympani. Literally, the membrane of the drum; a delicate |
| Varolius . |
| Tobacco (indian Tabaco , The Tube, Or Pipe, In Which The Indians Smoked |
| Bright's disease caused by alcohol |
| Reflex action, Importance of |
| Eliminated From The Body By The Organs Of Excretion." Maclaren's |
| Cartilage, 550 Lymph, 958 |
| "Chemical experiments have demonstrated that the action of alcohol on the |
| assumed by some writers, though I must confess to myself sharing the |
| Illness And Injury ; Doty's Prompt Aid To The Injured; And Johnston's |
