Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1845-10-30
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Mn. EDITOR The following found ia the
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much value 10 them, may 1t You please advertise
them be returned their owner by his paying charges
and taking them away.
81 have for long time received so much pleasure
and instruction in the space of hours, to-day IN
listening To Of Professor Bronson scienlI lectures
on anatomy physiology, psycology, DC. The learned
Professor after very modest introduction in which he
observed he should address himself mainly To the ladies
and school children who present. proceeded 10 dis
sect his manikn and deliver lecture which for scien-
i6c research profound observation and professional
men, exceeded any have heard. During the de-
livery of il, repeated manifestations by the audience
tilted the intense interest they felt m his lucid and salts
factory illustrations of the subjects WHICH engag-
ed hs attention.
lie began by removing and exhibiting The scull cap,
beautifully radiaed with large jugular veins swell
ed like whip-cords. lie then removed successive
muscles from the face, showing which respectively
used in laughing and crying, smiling and blushng, eat
ing mush and cracking very much astonishing the
audience, how they achieved these intricate aud compl
He proceeded demonstrate the various tissues OF The
eye taking out the pupil and the yreous ens aud show
ing how the optic projected through them like the
seed-cup of the poppy through its petals
But his Uiasterly unfolding Of the cUnvoluiOns, and
and snews OF the BRAIN ndescribaby inter-
eslng He exhibited the large brain with the little
tucked under the heel of il like a wart; the hems
pheres, which polarse from extremity the other,
side The other the egress Of The ofdcory
and optic from its base; and the whole enveoped
in the meduIary hard mother English. How
embraced
eous substance; and leave the convoIutOns,
cept by the ofctory and optic nerves, which blucae
TO reach the eyes, and mouth when they desire to
make observation of the external world, like a soldier
through port hole. Removing numerous muscles from
the neck he brought into view the arynx and pha
rynx achea and bronchial upon the diseases of which
he made Observ atoms, which must have been valu
able to several physicians whom l present One
struck peculiarly original that bronchitis
seated in the laynx, but like the itch, would only
take hold of particular paris as the bronchial &c Then
fol he 10 no Shnuldp
in triangle; and the popular which brings tile
the breast the peculiar direction of the 6bres of
which conclusvely show that huggng comes by nature
cannot follow the Professor through his dissection of
the biceps, and trceps, and quadrceps of the
the annuar ring which confines them at the wrist
pus. lie demonstrated IA fact here which strongly
pected before; that has much better marked grasp
ing powers than extending relaxing
l Returning TO the trachea which anastomnses at
end with the bronchla, and the other slides off into
the epi-gotiis, that, faithful as hngerboard, stands
pointing the way to the stomach, shown
cessively the heart lungs midrif upper stomach S
Spleen lower stomach and kidneys. Demonstrating the
heart be double the learned Professor remarked that
it beautiful type of the true and good every
Thing Of this character in tine dual number
except The liver and that would have been too bu there
not found la put another. The pancreas form
ed exception, i"r the mankin had and IT was,
therefore, superhuous organ. The aurirles Of
the right heart receiving the blood, distributes the
lungs, from whence the left anrIcle and dis
charges into the right vPnrcle which propels through
the body. MANY valuable observations made upon
these organs, but few of which can notice
lie showed the stomach gvraiing like bark mill, and
the lower stomach vermrualing like seaserpent dur
ing digestion. No holiday employ tins process of
digestion. had no idea the stomachs, upper and lower,
heaved and curned so IN cholera bilious collie But
the greatest piece of mechanism here the Iacteals
The lacteals like chs all upper
face OF the lower stomach and bowels sucking up the
trimen from the dgesied food While the Professor as
this subject, heard kissing and sucking, like that
proceeding from bed of hungry s0pped
sailed wafer This from the millions Of these lac
a..
about hours before These lacteas strain the chye
which they have sucked up through the liver and other
siraners 10 take out the grease and grounds and the
clarified then pass through the chylc duct I'D
the spine Join the lymph which from the
How the lymph gets to the brain the learned Professor
did state but suppose through the olfactory and
optic Joined they flow with the old blood to
the heart, where they married. Miss Chye to Me-
Lymph, Miss Lymph to Mr.. Chye, forget which,
and become part of the sanguis family proceed thence
the lungs where the air, the preacher performs the
ceremony and makes the blood. Hence de-
rived marriage, which have perverted in this: that
we have the preachers ceremony before cOnsummaton
The Professor then passed on to the lower limbs de-
monstrang the muscles Nc among the former of which
the Interesting those by which brings
legs perpendicular, if by any accident they should
get stuck at right angles TO ms BODY position that
would be peculiarly embarrassing there
recovering from IL and the sartorous ailor muscle,
the bene6cence of Providence being specially manifest
| IN providing with this muscle, for without il we
would have had no taiors Females deprived of this
muscle and, in consequence, make than seam.
But the remarkable part of these men,
beers, both for and ingenuity, is the grand
which from the lower part of the spne perOraling
bones muscles and snews reach the pedal extremtes
of the feet Before getting them, spreads like
ducks foot the plantar surface of the feet. The
of this singular mechanism has only recently been found
is for the purpose Of contracting consumpohs
being well ascertained fact that one, endowed
with this distribution Of the grand scatic has ever had
that disease This expansion of in the sole of
foot being but slightly protected by skin and muscle /;
when their shoes in damp weather. gets cold
which goes up the grand sciac and the spine to the
brain and lungs, and then hear kuc kuc kuc :
the Miss begins to cough and consumption supervenes
Whoopng cough aud phhyslc begin in the same way
The usefulness of the grand scialic is immense IL is
of this that always sleep with
their feet 10 the fire. when the heat Initiates up the
spinal marrow thence up to the little BRAIN then TO the
poseror extremity of the big brain whence poarizes
the hemispheres the anterior extremity
where it with the lymph and generates pleasant
dreams Negroes have consumption because they
mofy this by this species of frequent toasting.
will close by stating that in addition the immense
amount of anatomical knowledge communicated must be
added his very lucid aud philosophical remarks upon
fond and physiology. disease and divinity preesInaIiOn
and freknowedge gospel dispensaons and of ma
ture abdominal elocuon and diagnosis grace the
levIahans that uxurate in drop of vinegar &c &c.
&c. PUPIL"
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