The Philosophy of Vital MotionJohn Churchill, 1851 - 158 páginas |
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... to ebb and flow in direct relation to the varying intensity of the sunbeams . At daybreak , also , the B leaves recover from the closed and pendent condition in which CHAPTER PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING VITAL MOTION.
... to ebb and flow in direct relation to the varying intensity of the sunbeams . At daybreak , also , the B leaves recover from the closed and pendent condition in which CHAPTER PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING VITAL MOTION.
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... direct and immediate gradation . Each form , indeed , is transitional to the other , and the whole constitute a group that includes all structures subordinate to true muscle . It is of moment , therefore , that we find these tissues to ...
... direct and immediate gradation . Each form , indeed , is transitional to the other , and the whole constitute a group that includes all structures subordinate to true muscle . It is of moment , therefore , that we find these tissues to ...
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... direct diminution of the local manifestation of organic heat . Other agencies , without doubt , have some share in the determination of these phenomena , as we shall see in the sequel ; but in the operation of heat , we find— as it ...
... direct diminution of the local manifestation of organic heat . Other agencies , without doubt , have some share in the determination of these phenomena , as we shall see in the sequel ; but in the operation of heat , we find— as it ...
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... direct , and , as it were , orbital movement around the body which is the principal source and spring of action . At the present stage of our inquiry we may only hope to obtain presumptive arguments , for those which furnish ...
... direct , and , as it were , orbital movement around the body which is the principal source and spring of action . At the present stage of our inquiry we may only hope to obtain presumptive arguments , for those which furnish ...
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... direct and deadly poison . We are obliged to admit , therefore , that inorganic bodies are concerned in the decomposition of this gas - for agents must be employed to conquer the affinities of its component elements ; and as this is the ...
... direct and deadly poison . We are obliged to admit , therefore , that inorganic bodies are concerned in the decomposition of this gas - for agents must be employed to conquer the affinities of its component elements ; and as this is the ...
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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...