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... STRUCTURE AND DISEASES OF THE TESTIS . With 24 highly - finished Coloured Plates . Second Edition . £ 1 . 10s . 5. LAWRENCE'S TREATISE ON RUPTURES . Fifth Edition . 8vo . HADE 16s . ON 4F16 No.1870 Book 64-18 Shelf 95 68 724 Worcester ...
... STRUCTURE AND DISEASES OF THE TESTIS . With 24 highly - finished Coloured Plates . Second Edition . £ 1 . 10s . 5. LAWRENCE'S TREATISE ON RUPTURES . Fifth Edition . 8vo . HADE 16s . ON 4F16 No.1870 Book 64-18 Shelf 95 68 724 Worcester ...
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... structure - from a simple organ to a perfect organism , and from the complicated nervous , vascular , or osseous systems , to the more rudimentary parts of the economy . I have traced , also , the same principle into inorganic bodies ...
... structure - from a simple organ to a perfect organism , and from the complicated nervous , vascular , or osseous systems , to the more rudimentary parts of the economy . I have traced , also , the same principle into inorganic bodies ...
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... however , it may be well to endeavour to obtain some preliminary information upon the mode in which the bodily structures are affected by some of the more ordinary varieties of what may be called extra B 2 RESPECTING VITAL MOTION . 3.
... however , it may be well to endeavour to obtain some preliminary information upon the mode in which the bodily structures are affected by some of the more ordinary varieties of what may be called extra B 2 RESPECTING VITAL MOTION . 3.
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... structures subordinate to true muscle . It is of moment , therefore , that we find these tissues to con- tract when exposed to cold , and to pass into an oppo- site state under the influence of warmth , inasmuch as this action must be ...
... structures subordinate to true muscle . It is of moment , therefore , that we find these tissues to con- tract when exposed to cold , and to pass into an oppo- site state under the influence of warmth , inasmuch as this action must be ...
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... structures of the bark , passing at the same time inwardly and horizon- tally through the tissues which form the medullary rays . " Very little of the elaborated sap reaches the roots , from which the motion commenced ; and none of it ...
... structures of the bark , passing at the same time inwardly and horizon- tally through the tissues which form the medullary rays . " Very little of the elaborated sap reaches the roots , from which the motion commenced ; and none of it ...
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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...