Excerpt from Handbook of the Hospital Corps, United States Navy, 1953 As a hospital corpsman, you must have a good basic knowledge of how the human body is con structed and how it works. This is known as anatomy (structure) and physiology (function). In your job of caring for the sick and injured, you will be constantly interested in the body. Just as a successful automobile mechanic knows the parts of his machine, the hospital corpsman must be familiar with the parts of the body and how each operates. Although such a knowledge will not cure patients, it is a basic tool needed for the successful treatment of disease and injury. The human body is a combination of organ systems, with a supporting framework of muscles and bones and an external covering of skin. The smallest unit of life. The cell. Is the building block of which all these organs and systems are made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.