Fourteen Weeks in Human PhysiologyA.S. Barnes, 1872 - 238 σελίδες |
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absorbed acid action animals arteries auricle bath become blood blood-vessels body bones brain breath called capillaries carbonic acid cartilage cause cells cerebellum cerebrum chest circulation class of lever clothing cold contract crystalline lens Cure cuticle delicate Describe digestion disease disks elastic exercise feet fibres fingers fluid foot force gastric juice give glands glottis hair hand head heart heat Illustrate inch injurious intestines joint juice lacteals larynx limbs liquid lungs lymphatics matter meat motion mouth mucous membrane muscles muscular nails nervous nose organs oxygen pain pair of nerves papillæ peculiar periosteum person physician poison PRACTICAL QUESTIONS produce respiration ribs right auricle salt scrofula secretion sensitive side skin skull spinal cord spine stomach structure substance sugar surface syrup of ipecac teeth tendon tion tissue tongue tricuspid valve tubes ulna valves veins ventricle vertebræ walk warm weight
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Σελίδα 64 - It is found on nearly all parts of the body, except the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet. The...
Σελίδα 157 - Then mark the cloven sphere that holds All thought in its mysterious folds, That feels sensation's faintest thrill, And flashes forth the sovereign will ; Think on the stormy world that dwells Locked in its dim and clustering cells ! The lightning gleams of power it sheds Along its hollow glassy threads.
Σελίδα 81 - The smooth, soft air with pulse-like waves Flows murmuring through its hidden caves, Whose streams of brightening purple rush, Fired with a new and livelier blush, While all their burden of decay The ebbing current steals away, And red with Nature's flame they start From the warm fountains of the heart.
Σελίδα 137 - ... their sisters, husbands their wives, and parents their children for salt. In the district of Accra, on the gold coast of Africa, a handful of salt is the most valuable thing upon earth after gold, and will purchase a slave or two. Mungo Park tells us that with the Mandingoes and Bambaras the nse of salt is such a luxury that to say of a man, ' he flavors his food with salt...
Σελίδα 169 - From these, delicate nerves, generally soft and of a grayish color, run to the organs on which life depends — the heart, lungs, stomach, etc. — to the blood-vessels, and to the spinal and cranial nerves over the body. Thus the entire system is bound together with cords of sympathy, so that, "if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.
Σελίδα 171 - There is a story, which is credible enough, though it may not be true, of a practical joker, who, seeing a discharged veteran carrying home his dinner, suddenly called out, 'Attention!' Whereupon the man instantly brought his hands down, and lost his mutton and potatoes in the gutter. The drill had been thorough, and its effects had become embodied in the man's nervous structure...
Σελίδα 146 - ... the saliva, the gastric juice, the bile, the pancreatic juice, and the intestinal...
Σελίδα 200 - O Father ! grant thy love divine To make these mystic temples thine ! When wasting age and wearying strife Have sapped the leaning walls of life, When darkness gathers over all, And the last tottering pillars fall, Take the poor dust thy mercy warms, And mould it into heavenly forms...
Σελίδα 122 - Tic-tac! tic-tac! go the wheels of thought; our will cannot stop them ; they cannot stop themselves ; sleep cannot still them ; madness only makes them go faster ; death alone can break into the case, and, seizing the ever-swinging pendulum, which we call the heart...
Σελίδα 174 - An infant kept in absolute darkness would only grow into a shapeless idiot. That room is the healthiest to which the sun has the freest access. Epidemics frequently attack the inhabitants of the shady side of a street, and totally exempt those on the sunny side. If, on a slight indisposition, we should go out into the open air and bright sunlight, instead of shutting ourselves up in a close, dark chamber, we might avoid many a serious illness.