The Philosophy of Vital MotionJohn Churchill, 1851 - 158 páginas |
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... increased warmth of the season . It does not appear , however , by what means the solar heat can be concerned in the production of the focal movements by which the latex is agitated , for this agency operates uniformly and equally upon ...
... increased warmth of the season . It does not appear , however , by what means the solar heat can be concerned in the production of the focal movements by which the latex is agitated , for this agency operates uniformly and equally upon ...
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... increased vigour . These phenomena afford a twofold illustration of the importance of the nervous principle as an agent of life , " and of the nature of the agency physically considered . 66 As evidenced in the capillary vessels ...
... increased vigour . These phenomena afford a twofold illustration of the importance of the nervous principle as an agent of life , " and of the nature of the agency physically considered . 66 As evidenced in the capillary vessels ...
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... increased manifestation of heat shows that this con- dition is attended with an inordinate amount of common force . In anæmia , on the contrary , where the watery blood is insufficient to the fit discharge of the function of nutrition ...
... increased manifestation of heat shows that this con- dition is attended with an inordinate amount of common force . In anæmia , on the contrary , where the watery blood is insufficient to the fit discharge of the function of nutrition ...
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... increased freedom in the respiratory changes ; and in autumn , when the powers of vegetation are sickening , the quantity of the same gas is greater than during the summer . In animal bodies , also , the products of expiration are ...
... increased freedom in the respiratory changes ; and in autumn , when the powers of vegetation are sickening , the quantity of the same gas is greater than during the summer . In animal bodies , also , the products of expiration are ...
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... increased afflux of blood , which again , by its own peculiar molecular changes , would keep up and servient to the wants of the animal system , for to animal and vegetable it is a direct and deadly poison . We are obliged to admit ...
... increased afflux of blood , which again , by its own peculiar molecular changes , would keep up and servient to the wants of the animal system , for to animal and vegetable it is a direct and deadly poison . We are obliged to admit ...
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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...