The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine1843 - Medicine |
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... organs with which it has come into contact , or through which it has passed . Among the substances which so pass , are the carbonate , chlorate , nitrate , and sulpho - cy- anite of potass , and the bi - borate of soda - these pass ...
... organs with which it has come into contact , or through which it has passed . Among the substances which so pass , are the carbonate , chlorate , nitrate , and sulpho - cy- anite of potass , and the bi - borate of soda - these pass ...
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... organs which may be in a state of congestion become relieved of the load which oppresses them . The lungs , thus relieved , become better able to arterialize the blood ; and this im- proved blood becomes better adapted for the ...
... organs which may be in a state of congestion become relieved of the load which oppresses them . The lungs , thus relieved , become better able to arterialize the blood ; and this im- proved blood becomes better adapted for the ...
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... organs . Some will have it , however , that there is no such thing as a direct , primary sedative ; but that the sedative effect was only the secondary result of exhaustion from stimulus . To this conclusion they are led from the state ...
... organs . Some will have it , however , that there is no such thing as a direct , primary sedative ; but that the sedative effect was only the secondary result of exhaustion from stimulus . To this conclusion they are led from the state ...
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... organs of taste ; the papillæ of the tongue become corrugated , and a sensation of roughness is commu- nicated to the taste . Astringent substances are found in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms - thus , the mineral acids are found to ...
... organs of taste ; the papillæ of the tongue become corrugated , and a sensation of roughness is commu- nicated to the taste . Astringent substances are found in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms - thus , the mineral acids are found to ...
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... organs , which assist in the circulation or preparation of the blood ; at the very most minutely divided fibrine floating in the serum has been observed , and that but seldom . I found it but once in the blood of a man who laboured ...
... organs , which assist in the circulation or preparation of the blood ; at the very most minutely divided fibrine floating in the serum has been observed , and that but seldom . I found it but once in the blood of a man who laboured ...
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Page 281 - I have referred rests on this doctrine : ' the population is increasing in a geometrical progression, the means of subsistence in an arithmetical progression, and unless wars, destructive epidemics, marshes, dense towns, close workshops, and other deadly agents, carry off the excess of the numbers born — unless the outlets of life and blood be left open — the whole people must be exposed to a slow process of starvation.
Page 435 - OWEN. - LECTURES ON THE COMPARATIVE ANATOMY and PHYSIOLOGY of the INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843.
Page 174 - It is not a question of time. It is a question of being. It is not a question of...
Page 359 - The subject here presented is one of the most important that can engage the attention of the profession. The volume should be generally read, as the subject-matter is of great importance to society.
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Page 258 - A living body has no power of forming elements, or of converting one elementary substance into another ^ ; and it therefore follows that the elements of which the body of an animal is composed must be the elements of its food.
Page 306 - Humus acts in the same manner in a soil permeable to air as in the air itself; it is a continued source of carbonic acid, which it emits very slowly. An atmosphere of carbonic acid, formed at the expense of the air, surrounds every particle of decaying humus.
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Page 304 - The proper, constant, and inexhaustible sources of oxygen gas are the tropics and warm climates, where a sky seldom clouded permits the glowing rays of the sun to shine upon an immeasurably luxuriant vegetation.
Page 308 - The process of assimilation, in its most simple form, consists in the extraction of hydrogen from water, and carbon from carbonic acid, in consequence of which, either all the oxygen of the water and carbonic acid is separated, as in the formation of caoutchouc, the volatile oils which contain no oxygen, and other similar substances, or only a part of it is exhaled.