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... death into the signs of com- mon decay . The plant , also , lives less intensely at night than during the day , and at this time the greater amount of carbonic acid exhaled is the evidence of increased freedom in the respiratory changes ...
... death into the signs of com- mon decay . The plant , also , lives less intensely at night than during the day , and at this time the greater amount of carbonic acid exhaled is the evidence of increased freedom in the respiratory changes ...
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... death we may argue that there is during life , if not a condition of fluidity , a quasi - softness approaching to this state . In addition to the solidifi- cation which supervenes upon death , there is also another form which occurs ...
... death we may argue that there is during life , if not a condition of fluidity , a quasi - softness approaching to this state . In addition to the solidifi- cation which supervenes upon death , there is also another form which occurs ...
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... things ) in dispossessing his mind of the idea that the spasms were owing to the operation of a vital stimulus . So far from supposing this , he will imagine , what was actually the case , that death was prematurely 74 OF VITAL MOTION .
... things ) in dispossessing his mind of the idea that the spasms were owing to the operation of a vital stimulus . So far from supposing this , he will imagine , what was actually the case , that death was prematurely 74 OF VITAL MOTION .
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... death ; for though there is no direct evidence on the subject , yet it may be argued from analogy that it might be so . Indeed , in cases of extreme typhoid depression , where the condition is very closely allied to malignant cholera ...
... death ; for though there is no direct evidence on the subject , yet it may be argued from analogy that it might be so . Indeed , in cases of extreme typhoid depression , where the condition is very closely allied to malignant cholera ...
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... death , are sufficient proofs that there is still a possi- bility of contraction in the paralysed muscle . And , lastly , it is shown , in the last paper contributed by Matteucci to the Transactions of the Royal Society , that the ...
... death , are sufficient proofs that there is still a possi- bility of contraction in the paralysed muscle . And , lastly , it is shown , in the last paper contributed by Matteucci to the Transactions of the Royal Society , that the ...
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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...