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ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 



or the patient may be kept all day and night lying on an inclined 

 plane. The victim of fashion may next, perhaps, be placed under 

 the charge of a regular spine doctor, who, by means of pulleys, 

 screws, paddings, stays, and close confinement, destroys what little 

 chance there still remains of a cure. A decline now sets in, and 

 the sufferer sinks into an early grave." 



The following figure represents a curvature of the 'spine. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE JOINTS. 



THE bones composing the skeleton are articulated to one another 

 in three different ways. 1st. They are found dovetailed into one 

 another, with the intervention of a very thin layer of cartilage, and 

 are quite immovable. 2dly. They are connected by means of one 

 or more layers of cartilage between them, and ligaments on their 

 outsides, tying them together, and admitting of more or less 

 motion. 3dly. They are united by means of cartilages, ligaments, 

 and synovial membranes, forming the most perfect joints, such as 

 are found in the extremities. 



