Bones: inside and out. Roy Mils

A lively illustrated story about 500 million years of bone history - a cornerstone for understanding the life of vertebrates, our health, history of people and human culture.

The human bone is universal and completely unique. It heals itself without scars, it is light, but resistant to the load, it is so durable that it lasts millennia. The orthopedist surgeon Roy Mils explores and extols this amazing material, without which the life of the vertebrates is impossible.

inside the body, the bone manifests itself as the best building material in the world. The author considers its biological composition, refutes myths about how the bones grow, break and heal, compares the features of their structure in a person with various variations in other representatives of the animal kingdom. In a clear and convincing manner, he refutes the common ideas - for example, that a person has exactly 206 bones - and also talks about frequent bone diseases, including osteoporosis and arthritis and their treatment. Along the way, he explains medical innovations - from the first x -rays to advanced surgical techniques - and introduces the reader to the giants of orthopedic surgery that created them and facilitated our life. To prove yourself after a hundred million years later. Miles with enthusiasm and humor tells about many roles that bones played in human culture for centuries. He writes about the mentions of bones in religion and literature - from the ribs of Adam to the Hamlet skull, about their stable presence in fossil residues, the use of bones as tools and even to create musical instruments starting from the Tibetan horn of Ganlin from the femoral and ending with ordinary drum sticks. Humanity from its very origin to this day finds all new applications to Kosties - they not only serve us support and protection, but also teach, entertain and give inspiration.

This book is an affordable, interesting and saturated story about A frame that our body cannot do without.

The book opens a series of books of popular medicine “Body. Instructions ". These are well -designed medical books from doctors and scientists - leading experts in their fields, who increase the level of awareness and awareness of the human body (how it works, how it works, is there problems and how to prevent them).