The Philosophy of Vital MotionJohn Churchill, 1851 - 158 páginas |
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... body is obedient to a law which is totally different to anything we find in inorganic nature ? Will it explain the hitherto inexplicable capillary movements of the blood ? -will it solve the oft- perplexed , and still unread riddle of ...
... body is obedient to a law which is totally different to anything we find in inorganic nature ? Will it explain the hitherto inexplicable capillary movements of the blood ? -will it solve the oft- perplexed , and still unread riddle of ...
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... 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 result . If we do this , every phenomenon will be found to point to ...
... 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 result . If we do this , every phenomenon will be found to point to ...
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... body . Before we enter upon any special and syste- matic enquiries , however , it may be well to endeavour to obtain some preliminary information upon the mode in which the bodily structures are affected by some of the more ordinary ...
... body . Before we enter upon any special and syste- matic enquiries , however , it may be well to endeavour to obtain some preliminary information upon the mode in which the bodily structures are affected by some of the more ordinary ...
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... body , may be called intra- organic . And this shall be the subject of our present chapter . As we might anticipate , the parts of the plant or animal which respond most readily to extra- organic agents , are those which are simple and ...
... body , may be called intra- organic . And this shall be the subject of our present chapter . As we might anticipate , the parts of the plant or animal which respond most readily to extra- organic agents , are those which are simple and ...
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... body are greatly elongated , provided they were previously in a contracted state ; and in the fibres of the dartos and erectile tissue , the former length may be doubled . In inorganic solids , on the contrary , the change , under these ...
... body are greatly elongated , provided they were previously in a contracted state ; and in the fibres of the dartos and erectile tissue , the former length may be doubled . In inorganic solids , on the contrary , the change , under these ...
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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...