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... 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 hand , it is the exponent of the changes which ...
... 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 hand , it is the exponent of the changes which ...
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... reviewed the phenomena of voluntary muscular action in relation to the several correlated aspects of physical force , and from this examination it appears that the muscles are subject to each and all of these agents , as inorganic ...
... reviewed the phenomena of voluntary muscular action in relation to the several correlated aspects of physical force , and from this examination it appears that the muscles are subject to each and all of these agents , as inorganic ...
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... REVIEW , addressed to the respective Editors , are received and duly forwarded by Mr. Churchill . THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICO - CHIRURGICAL REVIEW ; OR , QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE . Price Six Shillings . Nos . 1 to 12 ...
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... Review . SURGICAL ANATOMY . A Series of Dissections , illustrating the Principal Regions of the Human Body . By JOSEPH MACLISE , F.R.C.S. Fasciculi I. to VII . Imperial Folio , 5s . each . To be completed in Eight Numbers . " As a ...
... Review . SURGICAL ANATOMY . A Series of Dissections , illustrating the Principal Regions of the Human Body . By JOSEPH MACLISE , F.R.C.S. Fasciculi I. to VII . Imperial Folio , 5s . each . To be completed in Eight Numbers . " As a ...
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... Review . " It is incumbent upon us to express our decided sense of the value of this work , and to assure those readers who are willing to follow Dr. Addison through his somewhat profound and difficult microscopic and pathological ...
... Review . " It is incumbent upon us to express our decided sense of the value of this work , and to assure those readers who are willing to follow Dr. Addison through his somewhat profound and difficult microscopic and pathological ...
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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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Page 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.
Page 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...