Money Investing.ca - Money investing and stock buying tips Visit Money Investing.caInformational Site Network Informational
Privacy


Home


Medical Articles


Mother's Remedies


Household Tips


Medicine History


Search

Medical Articles

Eyes Accidents To

Three distinct classes of these are to be considered. They req...

Where There Is A Will There Is A Way!

I have been frequently compelled to resort to these milder ap...

Conditions Causing Change In Blood Pressure

Woolley [Footnote: Woolley, P. G.: Factors Governing Vascular...

Circulation Of The Blood

Nothing is more important for the health or healing of any org...

Fever Hay

See Hay Fever. ...

To Mothers

MOST mothers know that it is better for the baby to p...

Inducing A Child To Open Its Mouth (author's Method)

The wounding of the child's mouth, gums, and lips, in the of...

Cuprum Aceticum

(_Acetate of Copper Verdigris_) applied to _Cancerous_ ulcers...

Aortic Insufficiency Aortic Regurgitation

This lesion, though not so common as the mitral lesion, is of...

Cold In The Head

Infants often are prevented sucking by this form of cold closi...

Methods Of Treatment

Irritating applications probably provoke recurrences, becaus...

Eyes Hazy Sight

Frequently, after inflammation, and even when that has ceased,...

Limbs Disjointed Or Sprained

In the case of an overstretch, or sprain, which has resulted i...

Bruises Case Xix

Robert Hill, aged 16, received a blow yesterday from a bone w...

The Prime Rules Of Fasting

Another truism of natural hygiene is that we dig our own grav...

Rhus Tox

applied, with water at the strength of thirty drops of the _t...

1 Is Water Applicable In All Typhoid Cases?

The question has been raised, whether in typhoid cases, and i...

Perversions In The Guidance Of The Body

SO evident are the various, the numberless perversion...

Sea-sickness

_Nux Vomica_ should be used once in about four hours, for twe...

Pulmonary Insufficiency Pulmonary Regurgitation

If this rare condition occurs, it is probably congenital. A ...



Disorders Of Muscles And Bones





Category: OUR TELEPHONE EXCHANGE AND ITS CABLES
Source: A Handbook Of Health

The Muscles and Bones Have Few Diseases. Considering how complex it
is, and the never-ceasing strain upon it, this moving apparatus of ours,
the nerve-bone-muscle-machine, is surprisingly free from disease. The
muscles, though they form nearly half our bulk, have scarcely a single
disease peculiar to them, or chiefly beginning in them, unless fatigue
and its consequences might be so regarded. They may become weakened and
wasted by either lack or excess of exercise, by under-feeding, or by
loss of sleep; but most of their disturbances are due to poisons which
have got into the blood pumped through them, or to paralysis or other
injuries to the nerves that supply them.

The muscles of an arm, for instance, which has been lashed to a splint,
or shut tightly in a cast for a long time, waste away and shrink until
the arm becomes, as we say, just skin and bone; and the same thing
will happen if the nerve supplying a muscle, or a limb, is cut or
paralyzed.

The bones have more diseases than the muscles, but really comparatively
few, considering their great number and size, and the constant strain to
which they are subjected in supporting the body, and driving it forward
and doing its work under the handling and leverage of the muscles. Most
of their diseases are, like those of the muscles, the after-effects of
general diseases, particularly the infections and fevers, which begin
elsewhere in the body; and the best treatment of such bone diseases is
the cure and removal of the disease that caused them.


Repair of Broken Bones. If bones are broken by a fall, or blow, they
display a remarkable power of repair. The skin covering them
(periosteum) pours out a quantity of living lime-cement, or
animal-mortar, around the two broken ends, which solders them together,
much as a plumber will make a joint between the ends of two pipes. This
repair substance is called callus. The most remarkable thing about the
process is that, when it has held the two broken ends together long
enough for them to knit firmly--that is, to connect their blood
vessels and marrow cavities properly--this handful of lime-cement, which
has piled up around the break, gradually melts away and disappears; so
that, if the ends of the bone have been brought accurately together, you
can hardly tell where the break was, except by a slight ridge or
thickening.





Next: Troubles Of The Nervous System
Previous: Sleep And Rest




Add to del.icio.us Add to Reddit Add to Digg Add to Del.icio.us Add to Google Add to Twitter Add to Stumble Upon
Add to Informational Site Network
Report
Privacy
SHAREBOOKMARK


Viewed 434