The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto.

  • Fau, Julien.
Date:
1849
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Credit: The anatomy of the external forms of man : intended for the use of artists, painters and sculptors / By J. Fau ; edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas of twenty-eight plates, quarto. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II. GENERAL IDEA OF THE ORGANIZATION. A brief sketch of the organization will be sufficient for the artist. The human body is composed of fluids and solids, the former averaging nearly nine tenths of the whole weight as has been proved by the experiments of Chaussier, and the observations of travellers respect- ing the bodies of men and animals who have perished on the parched sands of the desert. The loss of weight by disease also confirms these facts. The skin is the first object of attention. It invests the whole exterior, reproducing the internal forms; but the presence of the cellular tissue, and the thickness of the skin itself, modifies these forms, and diminishing their asperities, bestow on them a peculiar grace. There is a wide difference between the e'corche, and the body covered with the external integument. Numerous furrows, folds, hairs, &c. take away from the integument its monotony, limiting certain regions and embellishing others. It is pierced also with open- ings, establishing communications by continuity with the mucous membranes, viewed by anatomists as an