Familiar Lessons on Physiology: Designed for the Use of Children and Youth in Schools and Families

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Fowlers and Wells, 1854 - Physiology

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Page 160 - Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours ; And ask them, what report they bore to heaven ; And how they might have borne more welcome news.
Page 70 - A tight bandage is placed around the arm above the place where the vein is to be opened. The blood in returning through it toward the heart, is interrupted in its passage, and as the artery underneath is not compressed, the vein is filled with blood, and is swelled. If the vein be then opened below the bandage, the blood will flow freely ; but if the bandage be tight enough to compress the artery, the blood cannot pass through it from the heart, so there will soon be none in the vein ; or, if the...
Page 95 - Why, he gave it you, and it is your own now : the good man say, That not right, the tobacco is yours, not the money ; the bad man say, Never mind, you got it, go buy some dram: the good man say, No, no, you must not do so.
Page 94 - They are capable of forming strong attachments even with other animals, and then exhibit mildness, affection, and docility. 37. Monkeys and orang-outangs can be taught to do almost anything that we can. They ride on ponies, feed themselves with a spoon, and appear to understand what is said to them. The great naturalist, Buffon, speaks of one orang-outang which would present his hand when any one came to see him, and would walk along with great composure. He would sit down at the table, unfold his...
Page 167 - In Germany, every child is taught to use its voice, while young. In their schools, all. join in singing, as a regular exercise, as much as they attend to the study of geography ; and, in their churches, the singing is not confined to a choir, who sit apart from the others, OBSERVING AND KNOWING FACULTIES.
Page 57 - They say that it does them no harm, and that they cannot live without it. They take it, they say, as a stimulant, or to excite them. In reality it does excite their nerves, and their minds become weakened by it. It is better to drink clear, cold water ; the drink which nature has provided for us. 8. It is pleasant for us to enjoy food, and it is well that it is so ; for if it were not the case, many would become so much absorbed in their different pursuits that they would forget to eat, and...
Page 17 - The eye of the infant is larger, in proportion to the size of the body, than that of the adult; but it is by no means certain that the eye of the male is larger proportionately to the size of the body than the eye of the female. By some anatomists the human eye...
Page 167 - In G-ermany every child is taught to use its voice while young. In their schools all join in singing, as a regular exercise, as much as they attend to the study of geography ; and in their churches the singing is not confined to a choir, who sit apart from the others, perhaps in one corner of the house...

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