First Book in Physiology: For the Use of Schools and FamiliesSheldon & Company, 1869 |
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Page 20
... skin cover- ing them up from our view . It also defends them from injury . While for this purpose it is very firm , it is at the same time quite yielding , so that it may not restrain the motions of the body . Underneath the skin the ...
... skin cover- ing them up from our view . It also defends them from injury . While for this purpose it is very firm , it is at the same time quite yielding , so that it may not restrain the motions of the body . Underneath the skin the ...
Page 21
... skin of the body . It is termed the mucous membrane , be- cause it is moistened by mucus , a glairy fluid which constantly oozes from it . The red covering of the lips does not seem to be either skin or mucous mem- brane , but a texture ...
... skin of the body . It is termed the mucous membrane , be- cause it is moistened by mucus , a glairy fluid which constantly oozes from it . The red covering of the lips does not seem to be either skin or mucous mem- brane , but a texture ...
Page 41
... skin in various parts of the body , but you do not see the arteries . deeper than these veins that you see . this . It would be dangerous to have near the skin as some of the veins are . For the heart is pumping the blood directly into ...
... skin in various parts of the body , but you do not see the arteries . deeper than these veins that you see . this . It would be dangerous to have near the skin as some of the veins are . For the heart is pumping the blood directly into ...
Page 55
... skin , and of the capillaries that branch out upon this skin . It is by the airing that the blood thus takes , that every drop of dark blood that goes to the lungs is changed to red blood . 4. The great object of the machinery of ...
... skin , and of the capillaries that branch out upon this skin . It is by the airing that the blood thus takes , that every drop of dark blood that goes to the lungs is changed to red blood . 4. The great object of the machinery of ...
Page 77
... skin , and the teeth . Some of the parts of the body are totally unlike the blood , and it seems impossible that they can be made from it . It would seem comparatively easy to make the red muscles out of the blood , but it is not so ...
... skin , and the teeth . Some of the parts of the body are totally unlike the blood , and it seems impossible that they can be made from it . It would seem comparatively easy to make the red muscles out of the blood , but it is not so ...
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acid gas air-cells animals apparatus arteries auricle bellows body brain breast-bone breathing building called capillaries carbonic acid carbonic acid gas cavity chain of bones changed chapter chest chinery chyle chyme circulation cles comes concert of action contracts cords daguerreotyping dark blood drum duct elbow-joint fastened feel fibres fingers fluid foot formative vessels front gall-bladder glands goes grinding hand head hearing heart hinge-joint images instrument intestines joint kinds larynx ligaments liver look lower jaw lungs membrane messages mind motion mouth muscles act muscles that move nerves nervous oesophagus organs oxygen parietal bones particles pass pull red blood repairing represented in Fig respiration retina right auricle sent serous membrane shape shoulder-joint side skin socket sound spinal column stomach structures substance tear-gland tears teeth tendons thing tion tube ulna valves variety veins ventricle vertebræ vibration winding passages windpipe