How to keep well : a text-book of health for use in the lower grades of schools with special reference to the effects of alcholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics on the bodily life / by Albert F. Blaisdell.
- Albert F. Blaisdell
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to keep well : a text-book of health for use in the lower grades of schools with special reference to the effects of alcholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics on the bodily life / by Albert F. Blaisdell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![upper from the lower part of the trunk. This is called the diaphragm. It makes the trunk a two-story house, — the abdomen down-stairs, and the heart and lungs in the chamber. Above the diaphragm — that is, in the chamber, or chest [thorax] — are the heart and the two lungs. Below the diaphragm —that is, down-stairs, or in the abdomen — are the stomach, the liver, the pancreas, the spleen, the intes- tines, and the kidneys. These last-named organs lie behind the intestines, and you cannot see them in the picture (Fig. 2). You can see neither the whole of the stomach nor its exact shape. The same is true of the liver, the spleen, and the pancreas; for these are behind the stomach, next to the back- bone. But you can see the positions in which most of them lie beside each other, and you should study the two pictures (Figs. 1 and 2) till you can remember their arrangement. 7. 'Why the Care of our Health is a Duty. — We ought to keep ourselves in good health as far as we are able, that we may do well the duties of life, and be useful to others instead of being a burden to Fig. 1. — Side View, showing the Diaphragm separating the Chest and Abdomen.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21033444_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
