The Physiology of Common Life, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1875 |
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... matter in this work . roneous . It is in the chapters on the Nervous System that the great- est amount of dissent from current opinions will be found ; and it is there that the reader will most probably feel the greatest difficulty in ...
... matter in this work . roneous . It is in the chapters on the Nervous System that the great- est amount of dissent from current opinions will be found ; and it is there that the reader will most probably feel the greatest difficulty in ...
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... 52 of the liver , 42 of the muscles , 16 of the bones , and only 2 of the nerve - substance , by the time starvation has terminated in death . The idea of our solid bones , principally composed of inorganic matter , losing eight.
... 52 of the liver , 42 of the muscles , 16 of the bones , and only 2 of the nerve - substance , by the time starvation has terminated in death . The idea of our solid bones , principally composed of inorganic matter , losing eight.
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George Henry Lewes. bones , principally composed of inorganic matter , losing eight times as much as our semi - liquid nerves , which are so pre- dominantly organic in their structure , will seem very para- doxical ; and the paradox is ...
George Henry Lewes. bones , principally composed of inorganic matter , losing eight times as much as our semi - liquid nerves , which are so pre- dominantly organic in their structure , will seem very para- doxical ; and the paradox is ...
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... matter that the body should lose a pour ? Is water an essential part of the body ? Is it indis- pensable to life ? Not only is water an essential part of the body , it might be called the most essential , if pre - eminence could be ...
... matter that the body should lose a pour ? Is water an essential part of the body ? Is it indis- pensable to life ? Not only is water an essential part of the body , it might be called the most essential , if pre - eminence could be ...
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... matter how slight it may be , and in this respect is unlike Hunger , which , in its incipient state of Appetite , is decidedly agreeable . The bodies of those who have perished from Thirst show a general dryness of all the tissues , a ...
... matter how slight it may be , and in this respect is unlike Hunger , which , in its incipient state of Appetite , is decidedly agreeable . The bodies of those who have perished from Thirst show a general dryness of all the tissues , a ...
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The physiology of common life: with numerous woodcuts ; in 2 vol, Volume 1 George Henry Lewes Visualização integral - 1860 |
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absorbed action albumen alcohol alimentary amount Animal Heat arterial blood atmosphere auricle become beef Bernard bile bird body breathing burning capillaries carbonic acid caseine cause cease cells changes chemical chemist Chemistry chyle circulation Claude Bernard coagulation cold contain death diet digestion discovery discs drink eaten effect endosmosis exhalation experiments fact fibrine fish flesh fluid fresh frog gases gastric juice Gelatine glands Harvey heart Hunger hypothesis increase influence inorganic INTESTINAL JUICE intestine lacteals less Liebig liquid liver living lungs meat milk minutes muscle muscular nervous nitrogen nourish nutritive value observed organic substances oxidation oxygen Pancreatic Juice passes Physiologie portal vein produce proportion quantity reader Respiration saliva salt secretion sensation solid starch stomach suffice sugar take place temperature theory thirst tion tissues tubes vegetable veins venous blood ventricle vessels vital activity warm-blooded warm-blooded animals waste
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Página 36 - The two latter I frequently dislodged by shifting my hold on the bars, and driving my knuckles into their ribs ; but my friend above stuck fast, and, as he held by two bars, was immovable.
Página 149 - It would be very desirable indeed, if the men could acquire the taste for Greenland food, since all experience has shown that the large use of oil and fat meats is the true secret of life in these frozen countries, and that the natives cannot subsist without it, becoming diseased, and dying with a more meagre diet.
Página 36 - Mr. Jervas Bellamy, who lay dead, with his son, the lieutenant, hand in hand, near the southernmost wall of the prison.
Página 31 - ... eighteen feet, in a close sultry night, in Bengal, shut up to the eastward and southward (the only quarters from whence air could reach us) by dead walls, and by a wall and door to the north, open only to the westward by two windows, strongly barred with iron, from which we could receive scarce any the least circulation of fresh air.