The Philosophy of Vital MotionJohn Churchill, 1851 - 158 páginas |
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... blood ? -will it solve the oft- perplexed , and still unread riddle of muscular action ? -will it tell us why the heart continues its mysterious beatings ? —will it give the clue to a hundred acts and movements which are distinctive of ...
... blood ? -will it solve the oft- perplexed , and still unread riddle of muscular action ? -will it tell us why the heart continues its mysterious beatings ? —will it give the clue to a hundred acts and movements which are distinctive of ...
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... blood or other nutrient fluids in vessels independently of any cardiac impulse , the action of muscle , the beating of the heart , and many other mysteries of life , will no longer perplex us , for each will interpret the other , and ...
... blood or other nutrient fluids in vessels independently of any cardiac impulse , the action of muscle , the beating of the heart , and many other mysteries of life , will no longer perplex us , for each will interpret the other , and ...
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... to movement under slight alterations of heat , much greater in degree than that which belongs to water , or blood , or the allied fluids , and therefore we suppose that the expansion of the latex will not OF VITAL MOTION . 15.
... to movement under slight alterations of heat , much greater in degree than that which belongs to water , or blood , or the allied fluids , and therefore we suppose that the expansion of the latex will not OF VITAL MOTION . 15.
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... by other facts . If , for example , the hand be held to the fire it becomes flushed with blood , and this condition may increase D until a high degree of inflammatory action is kindled in OF VITAL MOTION . 33 In capillary vessels In cells.
... by other facts . If , for example , the hand be held to the fire it becomes flushed with blood , and this condition may increase D until a high degree of inflammatory action is kindled in OF VITAL MOTION . 33 In capillary vessels In cells.
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... blood no longer moves in a continuous stream in one direction in the capillaries , but oscillates irre- gularly to and from certain points , in such a manner as to show a tendency to the revival of those nume- rous centres of action ...
... blood no longer moves in a continuous stream in one direction in the capillaries , but oscillates irre- gularly to and from certain points , in such a manner as to show a tendency to the revival of those nume- rous centres of action ...
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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...