The Philosophy of Vital MotionJohn Churchill, 1851 - 158 páginas |
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... 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 life , and which we are obliged to refer to an incomprehensible and ...
... 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 life , and which we are obliged to refer to an incomprehensible and ...
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... muscular system generally have been passed in review . ( b . ) Of the organic force , not of a nervous character , as an agent in the capillary movements of animal bodies . The force here referred to is of a twofold nature : on the one ...
... muscular system generally have been passed in review . ( b . ) Of the organic force , not of a nervous character , as an agent in the capillary movements of animal bodies . The force here referred to is of a twofold nature : on the one ...
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... muscular contraction is something more than mere passive relaxation . This view has been advocated by more than one writer , and it is distinctly enunciated in the works of Bichât . In regard to the voluntary muscles , how- ever , the ...
... muscular contraction is something more than mere passive relaxation . This view has been advocated by more than one writer , and it is distinctly enunciated in the works of Bichât . In regard to the voluntary muscles , how- ever , the ...
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... muscular structures it would appear therefore that there are two modes of motion , one of contraction , and another of an opposite cha- racter . And to show the definitiveness of the idea which Bichat possessed in relation to the latter ...
... muscular structures it would appear therefore that there are two modes of motion , one of contraction , and another of an opposite cha- racter . And to show the definitiveness of the idea which Bichat possessed in relation to the latter ...
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... muscular action will receive some explana- tion from the history of the fibrine dissolved in the blood , for this substance is analogous , in essential particulars , to that which occurs in muscular tissue . Now the history of the two ...
... muscular action will receive some explana- tion from the history of the fibrine dissolved in the blood , for this substance is analogous , in essential particulars , to that which occurs in muscular tissue . Now the history of the two ...
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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...