The family female physician, or, 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.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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    confequently the external form of the body de- pends very much on it. Thefe obfei vations render it unneceflary to enu- merate particularly the veffels,. nerves, flefhy parts, &c. of the different organs of the body. In de- fcribing their flructure, therefore, the general (hape, appearance, and functions, of each part, require only to be explained. ANATOMICAL STRUCTURE of the HUMAN BODY. JL HE human body may be divided in- to the Head, Trunk, and Extremities. All thefe parts, however, are contained within one cov- ering, the Skin. Its flruclure ought therefore to be confidered before that of any other part. Structure of the Skin.—The fkin is compofed of the fcarf and true fkin. The fcarf fkin is that fine, tranfparent. infenfi- ble membrane, which, covering the true fkin in its whole extent, forms the outer part of the body. It is of different degrees of thicknefs in different parts, and has an infinite number of fmall perfora- tions, to admit of the paffage of the hairs, and of the exhalent and abforbent veifels. Its ufe is to defend the true fkin. The fcarf fkin is connected to the true fkin by a jelly like fubflance, on which the colour of the out- ride of the body principally depends: hence this fubflance is of a white or dufky hue in Europeans, and of a black or deep brown in negroes, mulat- toes, &c.