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Title: The woman's medical companion and guide to health : a practical treatise on the diseases of women and children: with full and definite directions for their treatment, giving the causes, symptoms, and means of prevention or cure, with the latest and most approved methods of treatment adopted by all schools of medicine: their doses and modes of administration carefully prescribed
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Garbit, Frederick J., M. D
Subjects: Women Women Infants Infants Gynecology Infant Care
Publisher: Boston : J.P. Dale & company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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into folds, whichserve to tie or support certain of the viscera in their places,and these folds are called ligaments. THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. Within the skull lies the brain, a mass of nervous mattersimilar to and continuous with the spinal cord. From thisbrain-matter or spinal cord, delicate threads called nervespass to every part of the body. Some idea of the natureand beauty of their arrangement may be seen in Fig. 3, p. 21. THE SPIIVAIi NERVES, Connecting with the cord, are in pairs, of which there arethirty-one. Each pair has two roots, — a motor root, aris-ing from the anterior columns of the cord, and a sensitiveroot, springing from the posterior columns. A section ofthe cord is surrounded by its sheath. The spinal nerve isformed by the union of the motor and sensitive roots.After the union, the nerve, with its motor and its sensitivefilaments, divides and subdivides as it passes on, and isdistributed to the tissues of the several organs. General Description of the Human Body. 21
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The Nervous System. 22 Woman s Medical Companion. The thirty-one pairs of spinal nerves are divided into eightpairs of cervical, twelve pairs of dorsal, five pairs of lumbar,and six pairs of sacral nerves. THE SYMPATHETIC IVERVE Consists of a series of these ganglia, or knots, which extenddown each side of the spinal column, forming a kind ofchain throughout its whole length, communicating to boththe cranial and spinal nerves, and distributing branches toall the internal organs. These nerves, then, are undoubtedly the organs of feelingand sensation of every kind; through them the mindoperates upon the body. The intelligent mind, whateverthat may be, whose seat is in the brain, wills that a certainaction shall be performed, and instantly through the mainchannel of communication, the spinal cord, the messageflies, branching off here or there according to the directionin which the work is to be done, and setting in motion themuscles which form it. The Female Organs, of Generation. 23 CHA

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