Human Physiology, Volume 1Lea and Blanchard, 1850 - Human physiology |
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... Sensibility PAGE 3885 33 34 39 43 47 53 56 61 63 69 72 1. Nervous System 72 2. Physiology of Sensibility 110 a . Sensations . 110 a . External Sensations 119 Sense of Tact or Touch - Palpation 121 1. Anatomy of the Skin , Hair , Nails ...
... Sensibility PAGE 3885 33 34 39 43 47 53 56 61 63 69 72 1. Nervous System 72 2. Physiology of Sensibility 110 a . Sensations . 110 a . External Sensations 119 Sense of Tact or Touch - Palpation 121 1. Anatomy of the Skin , Hair , Nails ...
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... sensibility , or the faculty of consciousness and feeling ; and motility , or the power of moving at will the whole body or any of its parts . Vegetables are possessed of spontaneous , but not of voluntary motion . Of the former we have ...
... sensibility , or the faculty of consciousness and feeling ; and motility , or the power of moving at will the whole body or any of its parts . Vegetables are possessed of spontaneous , but not of voluntary motion . Of the former we have ...
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... sensibility and locomotility . For example , every part of the generative act , as before remarked , is , in the vegetable , without the perception or volition of the being : the union of the sexes , fecundation , and the birth of the ...
... sensibility and locomotility . For example , every part of the generative act , as before remarked , is , in the vegetable , without the perception or volition of the being : the union of the sexes , fecundation , and the birth of the ...
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... sensibility , and of his power over the beings that surround him . But these differences in function are not so discriminate as they may appear at first . There are many animals , that are as irresistibly at- tached to the soil as the ...
... sensibility , and of his power over the beings that surround him . But these differences in function are not so discriminate as they may appear at first . There are many animals , that are as irresistibly at- tached to the soil as the ...
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... sensibility - the skin - serves as an outer envelope to the whole body . It was before observed , that two kinds of elements enter into the composition of the body - the chemical or inorganic ; and the organic , which are compound , and ...
... sensibility - the skin - serves as an outer envelope to the whole body . It was before observed , that two kinds of elements enter into the composition of the body - the chemical or inorganic ; and the organic , which are compound , and ...
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Page 33 - Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
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