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Esoteric anthropology, the mysteries of man. From the Amer
Esoteric anthropology the mysteries of man From the Amer Author:Thomas Low Nichols Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HUMAN ANATOMY. The human body, viewed outwardly, is composed of a head, neck, trunk, two superior extremities, and two inferior. Standing before... more » you, facing, or the reverse, a line down the centre divides it into two equal and symmetrical portions. This is the case with the body, as a whole, but is not the fact respecting the internal organs, which are not symmetrical, or cannot be divided into two equal halves. But the bones are either symmetrical, or in pairs, and so are all the muscles of the system of voluntary and instinctive motion. The trunk contains three cavities: the upper, the chest or thorax; the middle, the abdomen; and the lower, the pelvis. The thorax contains the heart and lungs; the abdomen contains the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys; the pelvis contains the bladder, rectum, the ovaries, uterus, and vagina in women, and the seminal vesicles and prostate gland in men. In the latter, the most important generative organs are external. The head is divided into two parts; the face, which forms a small angle of its anterior inferior portion, and the cranium, an oval box of bone, filled with the brain, a prolongation of which extends about three fourths of the length of the back-bone, or vertebral column, and branches or fibres from which are sent off to every part of the body. The whole body is made up of several systems of organs or tissues, which enter into every part of its structure. Thus we have— i. A bony skeleton, or frame-work of two hundred and forty bones, with their cartilages and ligaments, giving it form, solidity, and power of motion. 2. A muscular system, consisting of four hundred muscles with their tendons, by which all motions are performed, and extending over the whole system make a large portion ...« less