A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
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MDCCXCV [1795]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Moveable Articulations are of various ftructures; for feme are fo formed as to admit of mo- tion in every direction, fome only backwards and for- wards, and others from fide to fide. The Immoveable Articulations are formed in one of two ways : The two bones are indented in- to each other, by cavities in one correfponding with protuberances in the other ; or they are fixed firmly together bv means of Cartilages or Ligaments. CELLULAR SUBSTANCE—The various foft parts of the body are connected by an infenfible fub- ibnee, of a loofe open texture, fomewhat like net- work. Hence called Cellular Substance. Every part of thisfubflance communicates with the other ; from which circumftance, air, or any fluid, having accefs to one part of it, may be eafily extend- ed over the whole*. FLUIDS. The fluids of the human body may be arranged under the following claOTes. 1. The fluid formed by digeftion, called Chyle. 2. The Blood. 3. The Fluids, prepared from the Blood. CHYLE.—The chyle is a white, milky-like, fwest- ifh fluid, without fmell or any active fenfible quality. By it the blood, which is continually wafting, is fup- plied. On a due proportion, therefore, of the chyle, the nourishment of the body muff depend. BLOOD—The common appearance of blood is familiar to every one. When taken from a living perfon, as in the common operation of blood-letting, it appears at firft of an uniform confifter.ee, but aftec having remained fome time at reft, it fpontaneoufi/ fe^a- * [t will occur to re \. ,1 > have a previous knowledge »f a- natomy, that in the above d< ime of the Solids are omit- is the Integuments, Hatf, and Nails. Theie are diferred !(>tii£ . of the I'auticul.yr Structure oi'thepoDY. B