Home > Authors Index > Aristotle > Aristotle's Book Of Problems > This page
Aristotle's Book Of Problems, a non-fiction book by Aristotle |
||
Of The Shoulders And Arms |
||
| < Previous |
Table of content |
Next > |
|
________________________________________________
_ Q. Why hath a man shoulders and arms? A. To lift and carry burdens. Q. Why are the arms round? A. For the swifter and speedier work. Q. Why are the arms thick? A. That they may be strong to lift and bear burdens, and thrust and give a strong blow; so their bones are thick, because they contain much marrow, or they would be easily corrupted and injured. Q. Why do the arms become small and slender in some diseases, as in mad men, and such as are sick of the dropsy? A. Because all the parts of the body do suffer the one with the other; and therefore one member being in grief, all the humours do concur and run thicker to give succour and help to the aforesaid grief. Q. Why have brute beasts no arms? A. Their fore feet are instead of arms, and in their place. _ |
||