Handbook for attendants on the insane : with an appendix giving the regulations for the training and examination of candidates for the certificate of proficiency in nursing of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland / Medico-Psychological Association.

Date:
1899
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Credit: Handbook for attendants on the insane : with an appendix giving the regulations for the training and examination of candidates for the certificate of proficiency in nursing of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland / Medico-Psychological Association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER I. [ The figures in the margin refer to the questions at the end of each chapter. ] PART I.—.ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. To understand even the plain facts of the human body and how it lives, it is necessary to study it in two ways : first, its anatomy; i in other words, the structures of the body: second, its physiology ; in other words, the function or use of these structures. 2 MATERIALS OF THE BODY STRUCTURE. We speak of the materials required to build a house, or of the materials of which an engine is constructed. We may also speak of the materials which make up the structure of the human body. These are various—some bulky, others small. Those which are bulky are most familiar, for they catch the eye more readily. Such 3 are the skin, fat, muscle, and bone. Others, much smaller, and requiring to be carefully looked for, but equally important in their own place, are :—arteries, veins, 4 nerves, lymphatic glands, etc. If you could examine, immediately after the amputation of a limb, 5 the surface of the stump, you would see that the four bulky materials are there in a certain relation to each other. You will observe outer* most the tightly fitting and enveloping skin ; beneath it a coating of fat ; deeper still, and in much larger quantity, a red fleshy sub- stance, which is muscle ; and innermost of all the bone itself. You will also notice embedded in the muscle, and if you examine carefully, in the other coats as well, four lesser materials—arteries, 6 veins, lymphatics and nerves. If next you could examine the body itself, which we shall call the trunk—supposing, for example, that it were divided above the waist into an upper and lower half, and that you looked down upon