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Esoteric Anthropology, the Mysteries of Man. from the Amer Thomas Low Nichols No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 190 - Corvisart candidly agreed with me that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. Water, air and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Page 160 - Certainly man by nature was never made to be a carnivorous animal, nor is he armed at all for prey or rapine, with jagged and pointed teeth, and crooked claws sharpened to rend and tear; but with gentle hands to gather fruit and vegetables, and with teeth to chew and eat them."* 97.
Page 190 - Its own means are superior to all the apparatus of your laboratories. Corvisart candidly agreed with me, that all your filthy mixtures are good for nothing. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Page 160 - But though I think that man has from nature the capacity of living, either by prey, Or upon the fruits of the earth ; it appears to me, that by nature, and in his original ftate, he is a frugivorous animal, and that he only becomes an animal of prey by acquired habit.
Page 167 - Any deviation from health in function or structure ; the cause of pain or uneasiness ; distemper ; malady ; sickness ; disorder ; any state of a living body in which the natural functions of the organs are interrupted or disturbed, either by defective or preternatural action, without a disrupture of parts by violence, which is called a wound.
Page 161 - It is, I think, not going too far to say, that every fact connected with the human organization goes to prove, that man was originally formed a frugivorous animal ; and therefore tropical, or nearly so, with regard to his geographical position.
Page 33 - ... side. It is also shorter, from the great convexity of the liver, which presses the diaphragm upward upon the right side of the chest, considerably above the level of the left. It has three lobes. The left lung is smaller, has but two lobes, but is longer than the right." The lungs present to the view a spongy mass, made up of air-tubes, air-cells, and blood-vessels, all bound together by a cellular tissue. Of the air-cells there are many millions ; and the internal surface presented by the combined...
Page 160 - The teeth of man have not the slightest resemblance to those of the carnivorous animals, except that their enamel is confined to the external surface. He possesses, indeed, teeth called ' canine ;' but they do not exceed the level of the others, and are obviously unsuited to the purposes which the corresponding teeth execute in carnivorous animals.
Page 16 - Their termination is either in the veins, or in capillary exhaling vessels, or they anastomose with one another. It is by their means that the blood is carried from the heart to every part of the body, for nutrition, preservation of life generation of heat, and the secretion of the different fluids. The action of the arteries, called the...
Page 161 - This opinion is principally derived from the formation of his teeth and digestive organs, as well as from the character of his skin, and the general structure of his limbs.