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... 6s . 24. JONES ON ANIMAL CHEMISTRY IN ITS RELATION TO STOMACH AND RENAL DISEASES . 8vo . 6s . A detailed Catalogue of MR . CHURCHILL'S PUBLICATIONS may be BOWMAN'S INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY ; with numerous En- gravings on.
... 6s . 24. JONES ON ANIMAL CHEMISTRY IN ITS RELATION TO STOMACH AND RENAL DISEASES . 8vo . 6s . A detailed Catalogue of MR . CHURCHILL'S PUBLICATIONS may be BOWMAN'S INTRODUCTION TO CHEMISTRY ; with numerous En- gravings on.
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... relation to form , we may conclude that there is one archetypal law in all created things , whether animate or inanimate . Heat , light , chemical affinity , electricity , motion , and other physical agencies , have also been found to ...
... relation to form , we may conclude that there is one archetypal law in all created things , whether animate or inanimate . Heat , light , chemical affinity , electricity , motion , and other physical agencies , have also been found to ...
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... ebb and flow in direct relation to the varying intensity of the sunbeams . At daybreak , also , the B leaves recover from the closed and pendent condition in which CHAPTER PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING VITAL MOTION.
... ebb and flow in direct relation to the varying intensity of the sunbeams . At daybreak , also , the B leaves recover from the closed and pendent condition in which CHAPTER PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS RESPECTING VITAL MOTION.
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... relation to cosmical as well as to organic force , - or rather in relation to the forces which originate within and without the organism -- for we find , on the one hand , that cosmical force pervades the organism and constitutes part ...
... relation to cosmical as well as to organic force , - or rather in relation to the forces which originate within and without the organism -- for we find , on the one hand , that cosmical force pervades the organism and constitutes part ...
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... agencies which are correlative of heat- namely , light , electricity , and the rest - and therefore we leave our present point of view , and proceed to study the phenomena of cyclosis in relation to the agents 16 OF VITAL MOTION .
... agencies which are correlative of heat- namely , light , electricity , and the rest - and therefore we leave our present point of view , and proceed to study the phenomena of cyclosis in relation to the agents 16 OF VITAL MOTION .
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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...