Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-01-24
BY IAcoBus sTEEpEN, NJ. D.,

Professor Of .7nafonsy an the Ona,
persaz College Of Physicnaen and
,Sawbones.
Gentlemen Of the rising medical
generation:--To your hands will short
" be committed the intestines OF
large portion of your fellow-citizcns..
On you and your friends the druggists
will depend in great measure, the
solution of the question, whether,
through neglect and inactivity the pub
lie health shall be suffered to increase,
and the profession which you have
chosen be classed among the unneces-
sary evils OF the day-or, by patients,
perseverance and physic, you shall
divide with bread the honor of being
called the Staff of life. 1t is, there
fore, necessary that you should have
thorough knowledge of every part of
your profession. The subject of anat-
omy, as you well know without my
telling you, is one of the most impor-
tant branches inthe tree of medical ed
ucaticn; but, unfortunately, owing to
the hard and unmeaning names with
which the different parts ofthe human
system have been christened, and the
obscure and unintelligible language in
which they have been described, by
most writer's on anatomy, it is one of
the most difficult to comprehend. Re-
Numbering the time and tallow which
from the cause have just mentioned,
it cost me to acquire complete knowl-
edge of the human tabernacle, with its
various parts, organs and functions: it
shall be my effort, in the lecture which
I am about to deliver, totreat the SUBJ
iect in such manner as to give you
clear, correct and complete idea of it,
and at the same time, save yon a vast
deal of laborious study and middling
oil. So without further introduction,
| come at once to the marrow of the
matter, and begin with the matter of
marrow.
Marrow occurs in bones and meat
shops, and is good to eat; but whale
bone does not contain marrow, though
it is sometimes used to stay ladies'
stomachs. Ok marrow is a kind OF
bone manure for the head, and is said
to make the hair grow on anything,
from liberty pole to head of steam
Marrow is pith, but pith witches are
not made of marrow, although sand
witches may be; nor does it follow that
a pithy letter is necessarilya marrow
Iat pea, although M. P.'s are said to be
men Of pth. The "ente.priscs of great
pith and moment alluded to by Shaks-
peare, are thought by some to be the
digging out of the marrowbones ofthe
Mastodon. Having got through the
marrow, we now come to the bones.
A bone is anything appropriated
without the leave Of the owner. For
example, il an NJ. P. had heard loaf
or say he intended 10 bone some
burnt coffee or calico, in the great
burnt district, he would probably have
kept his eye on him, and, if he carried
out his intention, would have made nc
bones of carrying him off to the COM
mon receptacle of bones, the Iombs.
A bone Of contention is very differ
cnt thing; sometimes it means large
bird, as, Cor instance, Turkey is said to
be bone Of contention in Europe,
though nothing like so formidable a
bone as Bonaparte was. Turkeys, un-
less they are boned, always contain
bones-but skeleton keys do not; Tor
which reason the police often has
bone TO pick with the owners OF such
articles. which generally ends in their
being locked up, pro bono pu6f'co;-
Cta bono? is rather a questionable
kind ofbone; bat bone IN your throat
is a bona fde or "fxed fact" Bones
contain lime and phosphorus; but you
cannot make quicklime out of a sloth's
bones, nor bird-lime out of whalebone'
Nor can you light taper with even
the lightest bonein taper finger; tho,
the marrowbones are sometimes used
in making matches. The bones are
not used in any composition of Han
dels. though knife-handles are often
composed of bone. Strictly speaking
however, bones are what buttons are
made OF.
A muscle is longish kind Of hoped,
always salt when fresh, and of very
sluggish habits. being generally found
in bed between two testaceous cover
lids. Muscles, being all muscle, are
very strong, and hard to dislodge; but
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