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... . OF VITAL MOVEMENTS IN THE HEART . 106 CHAPTER V. OF THE NERVOUS INFLUENCE AS AN AGENT IN VITAL MOVEMENT · • 126 CHAPTER VI . OF THE ACTION OF MIND IN VITAL MOVEMENT 128 PREFACE . In a work lately published under the title iv CONTENTS .
... . OF VITAL MOVEMENTS IN THE HEART . 106 CHAPTER V. OF THE NERVOUS INFLUENCE AS AN AGENT IN VITAL MOVEMENT · • 126 CHAPTER VI . OF THE ACTION OF MIND IN VITAL MOVEMENT 128 PREFACE . In a work lately published under the title iv CONTENTS .
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... 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 potent ...
... 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 potent ...
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... action of muscle , the beating of the heart , and many other mysteries of life , will no longer perplex us , for each will interpret the other , and all will refer to a common law - cosmical - one . 4 , Henrietta - street , Cavendish ...
... action of muscle , the beating of the heart , and many other mysteries of life , will no longer perplex us , for each will interpret the other , and all will refer to a common law - cosmical - one . 4 , Henrietta - street , Cavendish ...
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... actions are regulated and governed , but this does not supersede the foreign powers which acted upon the egg . It is a constant rule , indeed , for this animal to be active and full of life in warm weather , and to hybernate in cold ...
... actions are regulated and governed , but this does not supersede the foreign powers which acted upon the egg . It is a constant rule , indeed , for this animal to be active and full of life in warm weather , and to hybernate in cold ...
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... action that is peculiar to the creature itself , but also upon a more general and comprehensive agent , which affects at one and the same time the entire realm of nature . As in the sensitive plant and lizard , so in other plants and ...
... action that is peculiar to the creature itself , but also upon a more general and comprehensive agent , which affects at one and the same time the entire realm of nature . As in the sensitive plant and lizard , so in other plants and ...
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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...