Familiar Lessons on Physiology: Designed for the Use of Children and Youth in Schools and Families |
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Page 63 - I, are branches of the artery going to the two sides of the lungs, which carry the blood there ; m, m, the veins which bring the blood back from the lungs to the left side of the heart ; n, is the right auricle ; o and p, are the ascending and descending veins, which meet and form the right auricle ; p represents the veins from the liver, spleen, and bowels : s, is the left artery, one which nourishes the heart. THE HEART.
Page 25 - ... mastication of their food. 48. Man has only one stomach, and this is all he needs in the digestion of his food, and in preparing it for blood ; but we see that different animals require and have different stomachs : some two, three, or four, as the occasion may require. 49. Lobsters and crabs have a very singular stomach. Near the lower end of it there are five little teeth placed on the opposite side ; and these being moved up and down by muscles belonging to them, grind the food passed between...
Page 54 - Fontana, the masterworkman, had forbidden all talking, and they now stood holding on the tackles so silently that you might have heard a whisper. Suddenly an English sailor cried out
Page 53 - Egyptian granite, one hundred and twenty-four feet high. It was brought from Egypt to Rome, by order of the Roman emperor Caligula, where it...
Page 89 - A cat frequented a closet, the door of which was fastened by a common iron latch. A window was situated near the door. When the door was shut, the cat gave herself no uneasiness ; for...
Page 91 - In Delhi, an elephant, passing along the streets, put his trunk into a tailor's shop, where several people were at work; one of them pricked the end of it with a needle ; the beast passed on, but, in the next dirty puddle, filled his trunk with water, returned to the shop, and, spurting every drop among the people who had offended him, spoiled their work.
Page 54 - ... remove it fifty or sixty rods farther, to its present situation. 69. " When they had at length reached the spot, the grand difficulty was to raise it. They erected a pedestal or foot-piece, shaped like four lions, for it to rest on ; and by means of powerful machines, and many strong ropes and tackles, they placed the bottom of it on the pedestal. Then they began with their machinery to raise it. But when it was nearly up, so that it would almost stand, the ropes, it is said, had stretched so...
Page 87 - The grocer's name was Gardner — the distance is certainly above a mile, and through the most crowded part of London. The case of bees is referable to Instinct clearly. Honey-finders in America trace their nests by catching two bees, carrying them to a distance, and letting them fly. Each takes the straight line towards the nest or hive, and by noting these two lines, and finding where they intersect each other, the hive is found. Now the bee is known to have a very confined sphere of vision, from...
Page 26 - In plants, nourishment is absorbed from the earth by the roots, or from the air by the leaves, which serve as lungs to them.
Page 54 - It was brought from Egypt to Rome, by order of the Roman Emperor Caligula, where it lay partly buried in the earth, on the spot where it was laid down, till about 250 years ago, when Pope Sixtus V, by the help of forty-one strong pieces of machinery, eight hundred men, and one hundred and sixty horses, in eight days succeeded in getting it out of the ground ; but it took four months more to remove it fifty or sixty rods farther, to its present situation. When they had at length reached the spot,...