First book on analytic anatomy, physiology and hygiene, human and comparative : for common and grammar schools and for families / by Calvin Cutter ; with numerous engravings.

Calvin Cutter

Date:: [1872]

Credit: First book on analytic anatomy, physiology and hygiene, human and comparative : for common and grammar schools and for families / by Calvin Cutter ; with numerous engravings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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$2.—EDiinent physicians both in this country and Europe state that, among the fashionably educated, not one female in ten escapes deform- ities of the shoulders and spinal column. The student, to prevent aa well as to cure slight curvatures of the spine, should walk with a book or a heavier weight upon the head. Porters and laborers of some coun- tries bear very great burdens upon their heads, and walk at a rapid pace with comparative ease. Such persons, in general, have erect forms. 3.—Fractured or diseased hones and ligaments shoidd receive special atte^i* iim. In fractured bones a surgeon's care is not only needed to adjas* {] e parts, but for several weeks to watch the reunion, that the limb may not be crooked or shortened. In sprains the ligaments are not usually lacerated, but strained and twisted, causing much pain, and afterward inflammation and weakness of the joints. To effect a cure there should be absolute rest for days, and perhaps weeks, using tepid bathing and prolonged moderate friction. More persons are crippled from ill-cared- for sprains than fractured bones. Persons enfeebled by disease, partic- ularly scrofula, cannot be too assiduous in adopting an early and proper treatment of injured joints, to prevent the affection called white swelling. 4.—The disease called Felon is an inflammation that commences in or beneath the periosteum. It is attended with severe, throbbing pain, and the unyielding structure of the parts prevents much swelling. The only successful treatment of this painful affection is an early, free opening through the periosteum to the surface of the bone. The earlier the incision is made, the less the risk and the suffering. The same treatment must be adopted in inflammation of large bones. ^ 5. Comparative Anatomy (Osteology). Classification of Animals according to their structure. General Characteristics of Vertebrates and In- vertebrates. Classification of Vertebrates. Compare Bones of the Head of Vertebrates. The Vertebral Column—The Thorax—The Extremities. Characteristics of Annulosa—Mollusca—Radiaia—Protozoa. 37. In minute structure and chemical composition all ani- mals are essentially the same, but the different functions and habits require special conformations. 38. Animals may be separated into two divisions, Verte- bra'ta (Vertebrates) and Invertehra!ta (Invertebrates). These What statement by eminent physicians? What is the prevention and cure for slight »urvatures of the spine? Give observation respecting fractured bones. Sprains. Felons Hame the divisions of the Animal Kingdom.$