The Philosophy of Vital MotionJohn Churchill, 1851 - 158 páginas |
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... can be expected to receive an opinion which is based merely on transcendental facts and arguments , especially when it is belied ( or seems to be ) by his own daily experience . Let us encounter , then , this objection on the vi PREFACE .
... can be expected to receive an opinion which is based merely on transcendental facts and arguments , especially when it is belied ( or seems to be ) by his own daily experience . Let us encounter , then , this objection on the vi PREFACE .
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... arguments for a common law , let us not seek the explanation in the body alone in which the movements are manifested , but in a wider range of causes . Let us treat unity as a reality and not as a fiction , and wait patiently for the ...
... arguments for a common law , let us not seek the explanation in the body alone in which the movements are manifested , but in a wider range of causes . Let us treat unity as a reality and not as a fiction , and wait patiently for the ...
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... argued that the vital movements of the sensitive plant are due to the joint operation of cosmical force , and of an innate principle which belongs to the individual organism . The egg of the lizard ... argue -2 PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.
... argued that the vital movements of the sensitive plant are due to the joint operation of cosmical force , and of an innate principle which belongs to the individual organism . The egg of the lizard ... argue -2 PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.
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Charles Bland Radcliffe. sleep throughout the night ; -and hence we may argue that the vivifying rays of the sun are essential to the continuance as well as to the commencement of exist- ence , and that the vital movements of the lizard ...
Charles Bland Radcliffe. sleep throughout the night ; -and hence we may argue that the vivifying rays of the sun are essential to the continuance as well as to the commencement of exist- ence , and that the vital movements of the lizard ...
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... argue that the quantity of latex present in any part of the laticiferous web , will be a fitting measure of the capacity of that part for the production of heat . A greater amount of this influ- ence , we may argue , will be extricated ...
... argue that the quantity of latex present in any part of the laticiferous web , will be a fitting measure of the capacity of that part for the production of heat . A greater amount of this influ- ence , we may argue , will be extricated ...
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agencies agent alimentary canal analogous ANATOMY animal bodies appear argue arterial auricles blood capillary carbonic acid cause cavities cells centres chemical chemical affinity CHEMISTRY circulation cloth coats coloured condition connexion consequence cyclosis dartos diastole dilatation DISEASES electricity electrometer Engravings erectile tissue evidence existence expansion extra-organic force fact Fcap fibres fibrine fluid Foolscap 8vo Foreign Medical Review frog heart heat hence HOSPITAL inorganic irritability latex laticiferous light limb manner MANUAL Medical Journal MEDICINE ments mind mode muscular action muscular contraction muscular system nature necessary nerves nervous influence nervous system OBSERVATIONS operation ordinary organic force PATHOLOGY peculiar PHARMACOPOEIAS phenomena phenomenon physical PHYSICIAN PHYSIOLOGY Plates Post 8vo practical practitioner present principle racter reason recommend relation respiration SCROFULA Second Edition sensitive plant stimulus suppose SURGERY Surgical systole Third Edition tion tissues traction treatise TREATMENT uterus vascular ventricles vessels vital motion VITAL MOVEMENTS volume voluntary muscles
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Página 132 - This possession was rendered more probable by the known fact that she was, or had been, a heretic. Voltaire humorously advises the devil to decline all acquaintance with medical men; and it would have been more to his reputation if he had taken this advice in the present instance. The case had attracted the particular attention of a young physician, and by his statement many eminent physiologists and psychologists visited the town and cross-examined the case on the spot.
Página 134 - ... that all thoughts are in themselves imperishable ; and that if the intelligent faculty should be rendered more comprehensive, it would require only a different and apportioned organization — the body celestial, instead of the body terrestrial — to bring before every human soul the collective experience of its whole past existence. And this — this, perchance, is the dread book of judgment, in whose mysterious hieroglyphics every idle word is recorded...