XII. Tables of the weights of the human body and internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages, arranged from 2614 post-mortem examinations

1861 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 241-262 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Causes Of Death ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
The Body ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Average Height ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Human Organs

These Tables have been compiled from notes of 2086 examinations made at St. Marylebone Infirmary, between 1839 and 1847; and of 528 examinations in cases of insanity made at the Somerset Lunatic Asylum, between 1848 and the end of December 1860, comprehending in all a period of twenty-one years. The calculations alone have been the labour of many months; a task, which, owing to the pressure of daily duties in a large establishment, I could not now have completed but for the able assistance of my relative Major Boyd. The Tables are submitted with a hope that they may aid in forming a standard of the weight of the human organs from early infancy to old age. The cases are arranged at eighteen periods of life, under eighteen different heads, showing the average height and weight of the body (the measurement of the head, and weight of the spinal marrow in. No. 2), the average weight of the encephalon and its several parts; also of each lung, of the heart, and of all the abdominal viscera. The assigned causes of death are given in the margin; also the variations in weight of the lungs, heart, and liver.

scholarly journals I. Tables of the weights of the human body and the internal organs in the sane and insane of both sexes at various ages

1862 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 124-126
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Left Lung ◽  
Lunatic Asylum ◽  
The Body ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Abdominal Organs ◽  
The Right ◽  
Maximum Minimum

These Tables have been compiled from notes of 2086 examinations made at St. Marylebone Infirmary between 1839 and 1847, and of 528 examinations in cases of insanity made at the Somerset Lunatic Asylum, between 1848 and the end of December 1860, comprehending, in all, a period of twenty-one years. The Tables are submitted with the hope that they may aid in forming a standard of the weight of the human organs at different stages of life from early infancy to old age. The cases are distributed under eighteen periods of life, and the Tables show the height and weight of the body, and the weight of the encephalon and its several parts, the right and left lung, the heart and all the abdominal organs; giving the maximum, minimum and average in each period.

scholarly journals El Cuerpo como Fábrica y el Cirujano como su Arquitecto / The Body as a Factory and the Surgeon as its Architect

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristóbal Pera
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Body ◽  
Human Body ◽  
El Paso ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Expiration Date ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTIf the human body is really a fabric, should surgeons be considered architects, as some surgeons describe themselves today? The author raises and analyzes this question, and he concludes that vsurgeons cannot be considered as such: the architect is the creator of his work —fabric or building—, but the surgeon is not the creator of this complex biological fabric —vulnerable and subject to deterioration and with an expiration date— which is the human body. This body is the object upon which his hands and instruments operate. The surgeon cures and heals wounds, immobilizes and aligns fractured bones in order to facilitate their good and timely repair, and cuts open the body’s surface in order to reach its internal organs. He also explores the body with his hands or instruments, destroys and reconstructs its ailing parts, substitutes vital organs taken from a donor’s foreign body, designs devices or prostheses, and replaces body parts, such as arteries and joints, that are damaged or worn out. In today’s culture, dominated by the desire to perfect the body, other surgeons keep retouching its aging façade, looking for an iconic and timeless beauty. This longing can drive, sometimes, to surgical madness. The surgeon is not capable of putting into motion, from scratch, a biological fabric such as the human body. Thus, he can’t create the subject of his work in the way that an architect can create a building. In contrast, the surgeon restores the body’s deteriorated or damaged parts and modifies the appearance of the body’s façade.RESUMEN¿Si el cuerpo humano fuera realmente una fábrica, podría el cirujano ser considerado su arquitecto, como algunos se pregonan en estos tiempos? Esta es la cuestión planteada por el autor y, a tenor de lo discurrido, su respuesta es negativa: porque así como el arquitecto es el artífice de su obra —fábrica o edificio— el cirujano no es el artífice de la complejísima fábrica biológica —vulnerable, deteriorable y caducable— que es el cuerpo humano, la cual le es dada como objeto de las acciones de sus manos y de sus instrumentos. El cirujano cura y restaña sus heridas, alinea e inmoviliza sus huesos fracturados para que su reparación llegue a buen término, penetra por sus orificios naturales o dibuja sobre la superficie corporal incisiones que le permitan llegar a sus entrañas, las explora con sus manos o mediante instrumentos, destruye y reconstruye sus partes enfermas, sustituye órganos vitales que no le ayudan a vivir por los extraídos de cuerpos donantes, y concibe, diseña y hace fabricar artefactos o prótesis, como recambio fragmentos corporales deteriorados o desgastados, como arterias o articulaciones. Otros cirujanos, en la predominante cultura de la modificación del cuerpo, retocan una y otra vez su fachada envejecida ineludiblemente por el paso del tiempo, empeñados en la búsqueda incesante de una belleza icónica y mediática e intemporal, una pretensión que puede conducir, y a veces conduce, al desvarío quirúrgico. En definitiva, el cirujano es incapaz de poner de pie, ex novo, una fábrica biológica como la del cuerpo humano y, por lo tanto, no puede ser su artífice, como lo es el arquitecto de su edificio. A lo sumo, es el restaurador de sus entrañas deterioradas y el modificador de su fachada, de su apariencia.

scholarly journals Influence of different types of loads on the cardiovascular and muscular systems in the process of physical education classes in the department of athletic gymnastics

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-132
Author(s):  
Svitlana Тymchik ◽  
Оleksandr Bryksin ◽  
Eugenia Omelyanchuk
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Musculoskeletal System ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Environmental Influences ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physical Work ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Regular Exercise ◽  
Internal Organs

In the modern world with the advent of devices that facilitate work (computer, technical equipment) has decreased sharply motor activity of people compared to previous decades. This, in the end, leads to a decrease in human functionality, as well as various diseases. Today, purely physical work does not play a significant role, it is replaced by mental. Intellectual work dramatically reduces the efficiency of the body. Lack of human energy expenditure leads to inconsistencies in the functioning of individual systems (muscular, skeletal, respiratory, cardiovascular) and the body as a whole with the environment, as well as reduced immunity and impaired metabolism. Exercise affects all muscle groups, joints, ligaments, which become strong, increase muscle volume, elasticity, strength and rate of contraction. Increased muscle activity forces the heart, lungs and other organs and systems of our body to work with additional load, thereby increasing the functional capabilities of man, his resistance to adverse environmental influences. Regular exercise primarily affects the musculoskeletal system, muscles. When you exercise, the muscles generate heat, to which the body responds by increased sweating. During exercise, blood flow increases: the blood brings oxygen and nutrients to the muscles, which in the process of life break down, releasing energy. When movements in the muscles additionally open reserve capillaries, the amount of circulating blood increases significantly, which causes an improvement in metabolism. In response to the reaction of the human body to exercise, the first place is occupied by the influence of the cerebral cortex on the regulation of the functions of the basic systems: there is a change in the cardiorespiratory system, gas exchange, metabolism, and others. Exercises enhance the functional restructuring of all parts of the musculoskeletal system, cardiovascular and other systems, improve tissue metabolism. Under the influence of moderate physical activity increases the efficiency of the heart, hemoglobin and red blood cell count, increases the phagocytic function of the blood. Improves the function and structure of the internal organs, improves chemical processing and promotion of food in the intestine. The combined activity of muscles and internal organs is regulated by the nervous system, the function of which is also improved by regular exercise. If the muscles do not work - their nutrition deteriorates, volume and strength decrease, elasticity and resilience decrease, they become weak, sluggish. Restrictions in movement (hypodynamia), passive lifestyle lead to various pre-pathological and pathological changes in the human body. So, the American doctors, having deprived volunteers of movements by imposing of high plaster and having kept to them a normal diet, were convinced that in 40 days at them muscle atrophy began and fat has accumulated. At the same time increased the reactivity of the cardiovascular system and decreased basal metabolism. However, during the next 4 weeks, when the subjects began to move actively (with the same diet), the above phenomena were eliminated, the muscles were strengthened and hypertrophied. Thus, due to physical exertion, recovery was possible both in functional and structural terms. Exercise has a multifaceted effect on the human body, increasing its resistance to adverse environmental influences. For example, physically trained people have better tolerance to oxygen starvation than untrained people. High ability to work at increase of body temperature over 38 ° C during physical exertions is noted. It has been noticed that radiologists who exercise have a lower degree of influence of penetrating radiation on the morphological composition of the blood. Animal experiments have shown that regular muscle training slows the development of malignant tumors. Regular exercise in physical education promotes good health and affects the various physiological adaptations of the neuromuscular, cardiovascular and respiratory systems of the human body. Types of physical activities are considered: aerobic, anaerobic, interval and hypoxic physical activities.

scholarly journals GAME PENGENALAN ORGAN TUBUH MANUSIA BERBASIS MULTIMEDIA MENGGUNAKAN STRUKTUR ALUR MULTIMEDIA HIERARKI

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 621-629
Author(s):  
Hamdan Hamdan ◽  
Umar Mansyuri ◽  
Beni Junedi
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Application System ◽  
Human Organ ◽  
Adobe Flash ◽  
Human Organs ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Learning Game ◽  
The Media

Natural science is the study of nature and all its contents in it, one of which studies the human body organs which are divided into two parts, namely internal organs and human external organs. The delivery of learning materials in schools is still conventional, namely using the media of printed books. The delivery media that is still conventional and many terms on the material of human organs cause students to have difficulty in understanding the material. There are many media that can be applied in learning human organs, one of which is by using learning game media. Game is a medium of delivery that is widely enjoyed by all people. So it is necessary to create an application system or multimedia-based learning game, as a solution to solving the problem of students' difficulties in understanding the material. Multimedia has aspects that are of interest to students because of its appearance in the form of images, animations, audio, and video. In designing this game, the human body uses a hierarchical multimedia flow structure, while the software used to build this game is Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Flash, and CorelDraw. The results of the game design will be implemented into a multimedia-based human organ recognition game using a multimedia hierarchy structure which is expected to be an effective way of delivering material in overcoming various problems that occur in learning human organs

scholarly journals What the Polish Mother Does Not Say. Zbylut Grzywacz Against the Myth

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Dorota Kudelska
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 62, issue 4 (2014). The article presents the art of Zbylut Grzywacz in the context of his post-mortem exhibition in the Kraków National Museum in 2009. The subjects of the analysis are his paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, presenting women through a simple rough treatment of human body form, without an academic idealization. The destruction of the form conforms to the deconstruction of the myth of a Polish Mother. It is due to the change of a social position of the figures whom Grzywacz gives the roles of guardians of tradition, as well as due to their mental and moral degradation. The artist uses an irony in showing his knowledge of the tradition of showing a human body in an academic nude (what he denies), in a Flemish art of showing torn animal meat (with the Rembrandt’s reflection) and Holbein’s tradition of the post-mortem decay (The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb). One of the main themes in Grzywacz’s paintings is the loneliness, especially distinct in a representation of symbolically naked persons among insensible pedestrians. The Polish Mother—here she doesn’t belong to any society. The explicitness and the picturesque materiality covers a certain “crack” in the world presented inside the hard-to-comprehend present-day multitude of Grzywacz’s paintings. Behind the cover of the foreground tale, as one could think on the basis of the sketchbooks, there is a kind of an “unpresented world”, in which the author incessantly tells us about the pain of his existence with no anaesthetization by grotesque.

Physiology of the Internal Organs

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingduan Yang ◽  
Daniel A. Monti
Keyword(s):  
Small Intestine ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Body Fluids ◽  
The Body ◽  
Connective Tissues ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Physiological Functions ◽  
Human Organs

This chapter provides a detailed description of the concepts of internal human organs from a Chinese medicine perspective, including two additional organs: Pericardium and San Jiao (cavities of chest, abdomen, and pelvic). It describes in detail the manifestation (Xiang) of physiological functions of solid organs (Zang) such as the Heart, Liver, Lungs, Spleen, Kidneys, and Pericardium, and hollow organs (Fu) such as Small Intestine, Larger Intestine, Gallbladder, Bladder, Stomach, and San Jiao. It teaches the functions that overlap largely with modern medical physiology as well as the additional functions due to the energetic connections of each internal organ with the rest of the body, including their specific impacts on sensory faculties, connective tissues, body gestures and movements, and body fluids. This chapter emphasizes that the internal organs in acupuncture and Chinese medicine should be perceived not only as structural and biochemical centers but also as energetic centers.

scholarly journals The Dead Body as a 'Lieu De Mémoire'. The Body-Object and the Living Body in Caitlin Doughty’s Nonfiction

Linguaculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-101
Author(s):  
Cristina-Mihaela Botîlcă
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
First Century ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Living Body ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Twenty First Century

Between Pierre Nora’s lieux de mémoire and Paul Ricoeur’s body-object there appears to be a relation of community and personal memory. Before death, the human body holds three meanings: material, symbolic, and functional, but post-mortem the body also becomes a place where both community and individual can update their relationship with death and mortality. In the twenty-first century, secularization of death practices inevitably leads to a secular view of the body. In Cailin Doughty’s nonfiction, the body seems to stand at the crossroad between spirituality and secularization, so between the meaning of the body and the body as a lieu. This paper will discuss how Nora’s and Ricoeur’s interpretations of memory and body apply to Doughty’s representation of the dead body within a death denying twenty-first century Western society.

scholarly journals PERANCANGAN DAN PEMBUATAN PROTOTYPE SHANK PROSTHESES KAKI BAGIAN BAWAH LUTUT

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Agung Prakoso
Keyword(s):  
Stainless Steel ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Daily Activity ◽  
High Growth ◽  
The Body ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Stainless Steel 316L ◽  
Below The Knee ◽  
Design And Manufacture

The existence o f fe e t as the part of the human body is very important to support the daily activities which is to support the body and to walk. The lost of the under knee part (amputation) is the dominant case of the total cases of amputation in Indonesia. So that we need a tool to restore the balance of the human body to be able to do our daily activity. The tool is called prostheses. The design and manufacture of prototypeshank prostheses under knee is intended for persons who have 162 cm height and 57 Kg of average weight. Prostheses are aimed to the persons who only lost one limb below the knee. In this design, the length of the shank can be set according to the length of leg amputated and is intended to persons who are still experiencing high growth (teenager). The material is stainless steel 316L. The shank has a length 200-300 mm, width 67 mm and 2 mm thick.

scholarly journals Allegories of life, death and immortality in the book of Ecclesiastes 12:5b–7

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Tantlevskij
Keyword(s):  
Olive Oil ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Natural Phenomena ◽  
Life Activity ◽  
Golden Bowl ◽  
The Golden Bowl

Analyzing the famous passage Eccl. 12:5b–7, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the expression "the almond tree blossomed" (12:5bα) contains the allegory of man’s birth and his young years; the phrase "the locust/locust tree became loaded" (12:5bβ) can be interpreted as an indication of the mature, productive/fruitful years of human life activity; the allegory of the caper, falling to winter ("and the caper bush fell"; 12:5bγ), correlates with the metaphorical description of old age and the approach of death in Eccl. 12:1b–2. So, one can assume that the passage Eccl. 12:5bα–γ includes the allegories of man's earthly birth, making up of his personality, maturity and old age in the form of natural phenomena that take place in Judea throughout the year — approximately from the second half of January to December. The allegory of the breaking "silver cord" (Eccl. 12:6aα), symbolizing the earthly demise, can be understood as a break in the connection between the spirit and the flesh of man (cf.: Eccl. 12:7). In 12:6аβ–b, Ecclesiastes adduces the allegories of death, expressed through the broken vessels ("golden bowl", "jar", a certain "vessel"), symbolizing the human body. The context also suggests that an allusion to the human spirit implicitly present in these allegories as well, which is symbolized by olive oil (in the "golden bowl") and water (in the "jar" and in the "vessel"), – not directly called, but contextually implied – returning to their eternal Fountain (cf.: Jer. 2:13, 17:13, also: Ps. 36:10) when their temporary receptacles are broken. The "spring" and the "well" (Eccl. 12:6b) are veritable symbols of life, and in the light of Eccl. 12:7b – perhaps symbols of eternal life in the Book of Ecclesiastes. As for the allegory of "the golden bowl", it clearly goes back to Zech. 4:2–3. In the light of the allegorical picture attested in Zech., chap. 4, and the text of Eccl. 12:7b, the allegory of Eccl. 12:6aβ – "the golden bowl will crack" – can presuppose implicitly not only the death of the body/"the golden bowl", but also that its contents – "oil", symbolizing the spirit abided in the body – will merge with the "oil" of the Divine Luminary, scil., with the Spirit of God.

scholarly journals »Det gör ont i hela kroppen på mig.»: Prepositionen på som possessivmarkör i nominalfraser

2019 ◽  
Vol NF 28 (2018) ◽  
pp. 22-47
Author(s):  
Olof Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Common View ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The Common

This is a study of grammaticalization within the prepositional system of Swedish. While in general terms av is undoubtedly the most grammatically defined preposition in Swedish, the preposition på has become a primarily grammatical tool in the specific case where it serves semantically to link a part or an organ of the human body to its possessor. It is argued that used in this way the preposition på, although spatial in its lexical meaning, conveys no meaning of location but fills the function of a possessive marker. It is shown that the grammatical status of the preposition på in this construction rests essentially on the following three factors: (1) loss of the original meaning of the preposition; (2) extension of its range of application; (3) its obligatory use even when speaking of internal organs of the body. Further, the article does not support the common view of the two nominal units of the noun phrase as standing in a part–whole relation to one another, the reason being that the “whole” in question is not the possessor of the body but the body itself, expressed in the word kropp (‘body’). Evidence is given in favour of analysing the semantic connexion assigned to the preposition på not as partitive, but as strictly possessive. Finally, it is argued that the use of på in this construction applies not only to relations concerning the human body, but extends into the domain of inanimates.

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