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... take place even when the brain is whole and sound . 24. Many ordinary and very complicated muscular acts are mere reflex processes . 25. Artificial reflex actions . 26. The sympathetic system . Education . LESSON XII . HISTOLOGY , OR ...
... take place even when the brain is whole and sound . 24. Many ordinary and very complicated muscular acts are mere reflex processes . 25. Artificial reflex actions . 26. The sympathetic system . Education . LESSON XII . HISTOLOGY , OR ...
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... take the same course , the lime - water will soon become milky , from the precipitation of carbonate of lime , showing the pre- sence of carbonic acid , which , like the heat , is given off by the man . Again , even if the air be quite ...
... take the same course , the lime - water will soon become milky , from the precipitation of carbonate of lime , showing the pre- sence of carbonic acid , which , like the heat , is given off by the man . Again , even if the air be quite ...
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... takes their waste products , and , finally , re- turns by the veins , loaded with useless and injurious ex- cretions , which sooner or later take the form of water , carbonic acid , and urea . 23. These excretionary matters are ...
... takes their waste products , and , finally , re- turns by the veins , loaded with useless and injurious ex- cretions , which sooner or later take the form of water , carbonic acid , and urea . 23. These excretionary matters are ...
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... takes place , the body , as a 18 [ LESS . ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY . Accessory muscles Variations in the quantity of matter lost by perspiration The stomach and the gastric juice Means of effecting them The bony labyrinth.
... takes place , the body , as a 18 [ LESS . ELEMENTARY PHYSIOLOGY . Accessory muscles Variations in the quantity of matter lost by perspiration The stomach and the gastric juice Means of effecting them The bony labyrinth.
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Thomas Henry Huxley. When death takes place , the body , as a whole , dies first , the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval . Hence it is that , for some little time after what is ordi- narily ...
Thomas Henry Huxley. When death takes place , the body , as a whole , dies first , the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval . Hence it is that , for some little time after what is ordi- narily ...
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