First Book in Physiology: For the Use of Schools and Families. Intended as Introductory to the Larger Work by the Same AuthorSheldon and Company, publishers, 1872 - 191 pages |
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... action are modifications of this principle . After presenting this view of obligation , the author takes up the questions of Practical Ethics , Government and Personal Rights and Duties , and treats them in their relation to Benevolence ...
... action are modifications of this principle . After presenting this view of obligation , the author takes up the questions of Practical Ethics , Government and Personal Rights and Duties , and treats them in their relation to Benevolence ...
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... action of muscles before I come to the chapter on the muscles , I will explain to you now the manner in which they act . A muscle is composed of a great number of very small fibres or threads . When it acts , each one of these fibres ...
... action of muscles before I come to the chapter on the muscles , I will explain to you now the manner in which they act . A muscle is composed of a great number of very small fibres or threads . When it acts , each one of these fibres ...
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... action of the lower jaw , as it is moved up and down by the muscles , in eating . In Fig . 4 , e is like the lower jaw when it is down ; and in Fig . 5 it is like it when it is up , so that its teeth press against those of the fixed ...
... action of the lower jaw , as it is moved up and down by the muscles , in eating . In Fig . 4 , e is like the lower jaw when it is down ; and in Fig . 5 it is like it when it is up , so that its teeth press against those of the fixed ...
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... action will be sufficient for the present . In some of the succeeding chapters you will see examples of other ways in which the muscles operate ; and , in the chapter on the muscles , the many various ways in which they act will be ...
... action will be sufficient for the present . In some of the succeeding chapters you will see examples of other ways in which the muscles operate ; and , in the chapter on the muscles , the many various ways in which they act will be ...
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... actions of the heart plain to you by certain comparisons . When you press the two sides of a pair of bellows together by the handles , as represented in Fig . 18 , you contract the bellows- FIG . 18 . that is , you make the room in it ...
... actions of the heart plain to you by certain comparisons . When you press the two sides of a pair of bellows together by the handles , as represented in Fig . 18 , you contract the bellows- FIG . 18 . that is , you make the room in it ...
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Page 112 - BO many different bones, instead of being one solid, tight box. If a blow be received on the head, these bones give a little upon each other, as it is expressed, and so they are not often broken. They give more in the child than in the adult, because, besides being less brittle, they are less tightly put together. It is well that it is so ; for if it were not, the skull would often be fractured, in the frequent falls which the child has. 9. The bones on the top of the head are fastened together by...