This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... her little hefty fellow hanging at her skirts. You notice its legs are bent and bandy, like a croquethoop. Under its weight its bones have yielded. Or to put the point another way, they have diverted from the natural shape into a curved and crooked shape, as jelly moulds itself to the form of a can. Bones are just ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ... her little hefty fellow hanging at her skirts. You notice its legs are bent and bandy, like a croquethoop. Under its weight its bones have yielded. Or to put the point another way, they have diverted from the natural shape into a curved and crooked shape, as jelly moulds itself to the form of a can. Bones are just soft tissues stiffened up with lime, and on their first appearance in the infant are easily bendable, like putty or modelling clay; the bones are fixed with lime just as a photograph is fixed with "hypo." Bones change according to the exercise they get. If you ever had teeth extracted and a dental plate fitted you will know how the jaw changes its shape after extraction of the teeth. The Chinese were wont to bandage the feet of their growing girls tightly, and the bones moulded themselves together and became cramped (After William Leclie.) Fig. 201.--A marsupial--the kangaroo--with a youngster in its pouch. and dwarfed and deformed in consequence; a condition not wholly absent from our modern society. The Frenchman Sedillot cut out part of the shin-bone from the leg of a young dog, and found afterwards that the splint-bone, which is usually only a fifth or a sixth the thickness of the other, had enlarged to bear the unwonted weight until it became as thick as the shin-bone would have been if it had been left in place. And as early as 1739 Duhamel found that when a silver ring is tied round a young growing bone it gets covered in, just as the wire of a fence gets overgrown by a tree, and finally comes to lie loose in the marrow cavity. In the thigh bone of a man (shown in fig. 204), we see the two ends of the bone have healed and glued together, after one Fig. 204.--The fluidity of bone. A badly-healed break near the middle of the thigh ...
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Fair. Hardcover, no dust jacket. 1919. Previous owner's note on end paper, pages are otherwise clean, crisp and unmarked, though lightly tanned. Binding is tight, Hinges strong. Covers show light edge wear. A bit musty.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Add this copy of The Life of Matter: an Inquiry and Adventure to cart. $9.00, fair condition, Sold by The Book Bin rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Salem, OR, UNITED STATES, published 1919 by J. B. Lippincott Company.
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Fair. 324 pp, blue cloth-covered boards. Some rubbing, edgewear on exterior; some yellowing on spine, and edges; darkening on front/back. Previous owner's name stamped on front endpapers. Pages have some yellowing on edges; clean inside. Cracked hinges at front and back endpapers; otherwise sound binding. B/w illustrations, plates; few color plates. Size: 8vo-over 7 3/4 in-9 3/4 in Tall. Year: 1919.
