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1257 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1858
When deglutition is about to be performed, the pharynx is drawn upward and dilated in different directions, to receive the morsel propelled into it from the mouth.
... the arteries collectively may be regarded as a cone, the apex of which corresponds to the aorta, the base to the capillary system.
In fracture of the shaft of the ulna the upper fragment retains its usual position, but the lower fragment is drawn outward toward the radius by the Pronator quadratus, producing a well-marked depression at the seat of the fracture and some fulness on the dorsal and palmar sufaces of the forearm.
The cervical part of the internal carotid is very rarely wounded. ... It is however, sometimes injured by a stab or gunshot wound in the neck, or even occasionally by a stab from within the mouth, as when a person receives a thrust from the end of a parasol or falls down with a tobacco-pipe in his mouth.
Wounds of the heart are often immediately fatal, but not necessarily so.
In the less civilized races, as the forehead recedes backward, the supraorbital arch becomes more prominent, and approaches more to the characters of the monkey tribe.