The physician. I. The cholera / [Anon].

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1832
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    tioned, contribute very much to give man su- periority and dominion over animals, and enable him to accomplish many of his best perform- ances, and to preserve his existence where animals without hands would die in helpless- ness. The bones of the thigh, the leg, the ancle, and the foot, are equally deserving of notice. You find the ball or head of the thigh-bone in a deeper socket than that in vvhich the head of the shoulder-bone rests; and the motion at this joint is well known to be more confined : but then the strength of the joint is much greater, for the whole weight of the body and head is collected on the thigh-joints, and moved upon them when we walk. Then there is the long cylindrical thigh-bone ; the joint or hinge of the knee,—not so close a hinge as the elbow, but carefully tied and guarded by ligaments or strong bands, and protected in part by a little patch of bone, touching no other bone, and called the knee-pan, or 'patella. Below the knee you find two bones something like the two bones of the fore-arm ; at the ancle you see one of them riding on an arch of bones beginning with the round heel bone. How all these parts are used in the exercises of leaping’, running, dancing, or even in ordinary walking, it is needless to remind you. How the leg is advanced, how the feet are bent and turned, and how the balance of the body is maintained on so narrow a foundation, is only to be un- derstood by looking at the machinery by which the movements of the bones are effected.
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