Human Physiology: Designed for Colleges and the Higher Classes in Schools, and for General Reading |
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agency animals aorta apparatus arrangement arteries arytenoid cartilages auricle blood body bone brain called capillaries carbon carbonic acid cartilages causes cavity cells cerebellum cerebrum chapter chest chyle circulation cochlea color common commonly connection contraction countenance Describe digastric muscle digestion disease distinction effect endowments epiglottis example exercise expression fact fibres fluid force formative vessels give glands gray substance heart heat Illustrate images impression influence instinct instrument lacteals larynx lungs membrane ment mental mind motion mouth move movements muscles muscular action nerves nervous system object observe oesophagus organs oxygen pass peculiar phrenology physiology plant portion produced regard relation represented in Fig respiration result retina seen sensation senses side skin sometimes sound spinal column spinal marrow stomach structure supposed surface teeth tendons thing tion tissue trachea transmitted tube tubuli valves varied variety veins ventricle vertebræ vibration vocal ligaments voice
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Page 240 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Page 240 - And but for that sad shrouded eye, That fires not, wins not, weeps not, now. And but for that chill changeless brow, Where cold Obstruction's apathy Appals the gazing mourner's heart...
Page 302 - ... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it •was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of anything, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...
Page 301 - When he first saw, he was so far from making any judgment about distances, that he thought all objects whatever touched his eyes (as he expressed it), as what he felt did his skin ; and thought no objects so agreeable as those which were smooth and regular, though he could form no judgment of their shape, or gusss what it was in any object that was pleasing to him.
Page 219 - There is no other source of knowledge, but a sense of the degree of exertion in his muscular frame, by which a man can know the position of his body and limbs, while he has no point of vision to direct his efforts, or the contact of any external body. In truth, we stand by so fine an exercise of this power, and the muscles are, from habit, directed with so much precision and with an effort so slight, that we do not know how we stand. But if we attempt to walk on a narrow ledge, or stand in a situation...
Page 352 - This pause was sometimes followed by changing the position of the material 'judged,, and sometimes it was left in its place. After he had piled up his materials in one part of the room (for he generally chose the same place), he proceeded to wall up the space between the feet of a chest of drawers, which stood, at a little distance from it, high enough on its legs to make the bottom a roof for him, using for this purpose dried turf and sticks, which he laid very even, and filling up the interstices...
Page 360 - is that side of our nature which is in relation with the Infinite ;'' and it is the existence of this relation, in whatever way we may describe it, which seems to constitute Man's most distinctive peculiarity. For it is in the aspiration after a nobler...
Page 302 - At first he could bear but very little light, and the things he saw he thought extremely large, but upon seeing things larger, those first seen he conceived less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw ; the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could be bigger.
Page 260 - The same can be said of n, except that in pronouncing it we press the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth just behind the front teeth...
Page 308 - In considering vision as achieved by the means of an image formed at the bottom of the eye, we can never reflect without wonder upon the smallness, yet correctness, of the picture, the subtilty of the touch, the fineness of the lines. A landscape...