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Page vii
... common law , let us not seek the explanation in the body alone in which the movements are manifested , but in a wider range of causes . Let us treat unity as a reality and not as a fiction , and wait patiently for the result . If we do ...
... common law , let us not seek the explanation in the body alone in which the movements are manifested , but in a wider range of causes . Let us treat unity as a reality and not as a fiction , and wait patiently for the result . If we do ...
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... under the influence of warmth , inasmuch as this action must be supposed to be common to all the rudimentary tissues of the economy . In this way , then , we obtain evidence of the operation of external RESPECTING VITAL MOTION . 5.
... under the influence of warmth , inasmuch as this action must be supposed to be common to all the rudimentary tissues of the economy . In this way , then , we obtain evidence of the operation of external RESPECTING VITAL MOTION . 5.
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... common fixed centre or heart , but a complex movement , consisting of many distinct currents directed to and from certain independent centres , the positions of which are subject to continual change . This is the plan observable in the ...
... common fixed centre or heart , but a complex movement , consisting of many distinct currents directed to and from certain independent centres , the positions of which are subject to continual change . This is the plan observable in the ...
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... common cell are called into action at the same time , and the season which determines or suspends the vascular changes determines and suspends also the growth and internal movements of the cell . Whatever may be the cause of the ...
... common cell are called into action at the same time , and the season which determines or suspends the vascular changes determines and suspends also the growth and internal movements of the cell . Whatever may be the cause of the ...
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... common squirrel , for example , which hybernates in high northern latitudes no longer does so if it be removed to a warm climate ; but he returns to his old habit if again restored to his former home : and this is the common experience ...
... common squirrel , for example , which hybernates in high northern latitudes no longer does so if it be removed to a warm climate ; but he returns to his old habit if again restored to his former home : and this is the common experience ...
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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...