Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy (1835) (14776739775)

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Title: Medical and physical researches, or, Original memoirs in medicine, surgery, physiology, geology, zoology, and comparative anatomy
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Harlan, Richard, 1796-1843
Subjects: Medicine Natural History Paleontology
Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by Lydia R. Bailey
Contributing Library: U.S. National Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine



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width of the spinal canal, nearly three inches. PI. 28, fig. 1, represents another vertebra of the na-tural size, and as it presents no mark for the attachmentof a rib, must also be referred to the lumbar region ; it isnearly as long again as it is broad, being in total lengthtwelve and a half inches, and not exceeding seven inchesin diameter, and is nearly cylindrical, excepting in thevicinity of the processes. The blind foramen is almostobsolete. The spinous process has been elevated, con-torted, and fractured, by the pressure of the rock, whenforced in whilst in a semi-fluid state, and which now oc-cupies the place of the spinal marrow. Ribs. PL 27. fig. 2. The most numerous portion of our collection consists infragments of ribs, not one of which even approaches toperfection ; the spinal extremities, or articulating sur-faces, exist in very few of them; these serve, however,to demonstrate an attachment both to the bodies andtransverse apophyses of the vertebrae. (•I. XXVIII Fur /
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