Human Body

Our bodies are the only things we ever truly own, yet most of us havent got a clue what they are made of and how they manage to grow, breed and cope with everything we chuck at them. In this delightful little book, the smallest of its kind ever produced, Dr Betts tells the incredible story of the human body, and how it got to where it is today. With useful appendices and a glossary. a hrefhttpwoodenbooks.comfeature.htm targetblankSee Lancet Reviewa

• Two early engravings of human trees of veins and arteries. Treelike structures are an ideal way to
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• Contents Introduction 1 Round Windows 2 Asian Fusion 4 Elements and Humors 6 PreConception 8 And DNA
• 1 The human mind is so curious, and our bodies are so intricate, that inquisitive men and women have
• 3 2 round WIndoWs see for yourself Little was known of the interior layout, let alone the workings o
• 4 AsIAn FusIon ancient Indian and Chinese systems The basic premise of all ancient systems is that w
• 6 ElEmEnts And Humours man mirrors nature Medieval folk assumed they were composed of the same numbe
• 9 8 The egg bobbed at anchor, with a thousand others, made in your mothers ovary before her own birt
• 10 And dnA cooking up shapes in the protein kitchen Down in molecule sea, DNA functions as a cookboo
• 12 tHE EArlIEst survIvor one stormy night about four billion years ago Organic life sprang from one
• 14 tHE cEll lifes electric microcosm You are made of cells, many trillions of them, in forms as dive
• 16 tIssuEs saltwater archipelagos Tissues are communes of similar cells performing the same tasks se
• 19 18 Embryology one cell becomes human Uterine milk nourishes the embryo during the rapid cell divi
• 20 tHE dIssEctors drEAm systems and organs Three truths about your body are it was once one cell, it
• 22 Four Plus onE is phive Variations in human shape are started off in utero, and the three very bas
• EArtH And FIrE transformation in gut and liver The pleasant thought of food, which makes you go and
• 27 26 In and out endlessly like the tides, the air you breathe refreshes the blood with oxygen to ta
• 28 The heart starts life as two primitive tubes that unite to form a cylinder, which is beating by t
• 31 30 vEIns And ArtErIEs two trees unite The fact that the blood circulates endlessly was not discov
• 32 lymPH PAtrol apprehension of miscreants Like the sea, extracellular fluid contains flotsam and je
• 34 Immunology discrimination of self Childhood is when you learn the most, and nowhere more so than
• 36 nErvEs your electrical intranet The major divisions of the nervous system are sensory, motor, and
• 38 tHE brAIn nobodys cracked the walnut Intelligence had to find a structure on which to discriminat
• 40 FIvE sEnsEs and the twelve cranial nerves All but XII nerves run to and from the brain in the spi
• 42 What to do with heavy, doublecharged, celltrashing calcium Dump most of it as shells, coral reef
• 45 44 EndocrInology hormonal biorhythms Hormones dictate what phase body systems are in, from growth
• 46 46 47 47 HomEostAsIs patterns in status quo Imagine all the various communications going on at th
• 48 nIgHt And dAy which need each other The reason you feel as if youre falling apart after youve bee
• 51 50 WHErE ArE WE goIng what is it for The Earth has been revolving around our Sun for five billion
• 53 52 smAll glossAryIndEx oF ItAlIcIsEd tErms brainstem 26, 38, 48 the oldest part of your brain,
• WAtEr, mInErAls, And FluId comPArtmEnts When biologists are asked what sort of life we have on Earth
• tHrEEFold systEms WEstErn FourFold systEm Nerves send their messages to other nerves or muscles usin
• cHInEsE systEm Yin Organ zang in charge of Muscle meridians Yang Organ fu in charge of Mu