Medical notes and reflectionsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839 - 628 páginas |
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... nerves , & c . , we have every reason to suppose , though the proof be less direct , that they are subject to hereditary variations of structure , not merely in detached parts of each system , but throughout those minute branches and ...
... nerves , & c . , we have every reason to suppose , though the proof be less direct , that they are subject to hereditary variations of structure , not merely in detached parts of each system , but throughout those minute branches and ...
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... nervous system may be chiefly looked to and there is certainly nothing to disprove the possibility that irregular structure of certain parts of this system may be transmitted by descent , so as to become a source of the disordered ...
... nervous system may be chiefly looked to and there is certainly nothing to disprove the possibility that irregular structure of certain parts of this system may be transmitted by descent , so as to become a source of the disordered ...
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... nervous substance itself . In hereditary affections of the nerves , as in those of other * Here again , as so often before , we are called upon to note the close relation of particular morbid phenomena to more general laws ; and , in ...
... nervous substance itself . In hereditary affections of the nerves , as in those of other * Here again , as so often before , we are called upon to note the close relation of particular morbid phenomena to more general laws ; and , in ...
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... nervous power , - - - or on defi- cient circulation of the blood within the brain , or on altered qualities of this blood , —or , it may be , on morbid changes in the nervous substance itself . Theory might suggest that , in some of ...
... nervous power , - - - or on defi- cient circulation of the blood within the brain , or on altered qualities of this blood , —or , it may be , on morbid changes in the nervous substance itself . Theory might suggest that , in some of ...
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... nervous energy testified in slighter cases chiefly by its influence on the mind and animal spirits ; in those more severe , by the tendency produced to convulsive and paralytic affections . This temperament , doubtless depending on a ...
... nervous energy testified in slighter cases chiefly by its influence on the mind and animal spirits ; in those more severe , by the tendency produced to convulsive and paralytic affections . This temperament , doubtless depending on a ...
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Página 232 - When Nature rests, Oft in her absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her; but, misjoining shapes, Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams ; 111 matching words and deeds long past or late.
Página 462 - Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death extracteth a third part of our lives," says Sir Thomas Browne ; a writer whose genius and eloquence give him a high place in English literature, as well as in that of the profession to which he belonged.
Página 259 - in maintaining their healthy structure, by keeping all the air passages duly open and pervious; secondly, in preventing congestion in the pulmonary circulation; thirdly, in providing more completely for the necessary chemical action on the blood, by changing at each act of respiration a sufficient proportion of the whole air contained in the lungs,
Página 263 - as to posture, articulation, and the avoidance of all excess, such exercises may be rendered as salutary to the organs of respiration, as they are agreeable in their influence on the ordinary voice. Even singing may for the same reasons be allowed in many of these cases; but within narrower limits, and under more cautious notice
Página 468 - variation consisting, not only in the different degrees in which the same sense or faculty is submitted to it, but also in the different proportions in which these several powers are under its influence at the same time. We thus associate together under a common principle all the phenomena, however remote and anomalous they may seem ; — from the
Página 465 - be, it is important in all our reasonings, practical and theoretical, upon sleep, to keep in mind that it is not a unity of state with which we are dealing, but a series of fluctuating conditions, of which no two moments perhaps are strictly alike. It may be affirmed that these variations extend
Página 9 - be that so ably developed by Dr. Prichard; viz. that all original or connate bodily peculiarities tend to become hereditary ; while changes in the organic structure of the individual from external causes during life, end with him, and have no obvious influence on his progeny.* I
Página 259 - emptied of air ? Though suggestions to this effect occur in some of our best works on consumption, as well as in the writings of certain continental physicians, they have hitherto had less than their due influence; and the principle, as such, is little
Página 169 - come under the description of what has been termed double consciousness; where the mind passes by alternation from one state to another, each having the perception of external impressions and appropriate trains of thought, but not linked together by the ordinary gradations, or by mutual memory. I have seen one or two singular
Página 260 - the blood, by changing at each act of respiration a sufficient proportion of the whole air contained in the lungs, and giving it more complete access to the vascular tissues;—all objects of great importance, and all capable of being promoted more or less by the means in question.*