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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... perform a great variety of motions besides walking . It can run , jump , leap , climb , & c . 3. You see the same difference , if instead of look- ing at the body as a whole , you look at any particular part of it . Look , for example ...
... perform a great variety of motions besides walking . It can run , jump , leap , climb , & c . 3. You see the same difference , if instead of look- ing at the body as a whole , you look at any particular part of it . Look , for example ...
Page 10
... perform . 4. But besides being a locomotive machine , capable of all this variety of motion , the human body is also a machine in which many things are made . Blood is made in it . This red fluid is made out of the food which this ...
... perform . 4. But besides being a locomotive machine , capable of all this variety of motion , the human body is also a machine in which many things are made . Blood is made in it . This red fluid is made out of the food which this ...
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... performing some of their motions this substance is very much moved and stretched , but it always yields easily and is not torn . 18. The cells of this substance are kept moist by a very little watery fluid . When this fluid is in ...
... performing some of their motions this substance is very much moved and stretched , but it always yields easily and is not torn . 18. The cells of this substance are kept moist by a very little watery fluid . When this fluid is in ...
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... perform the grinding motion . 9. Man eats all kinds of food , or is omnivorous ; he therefore has the various kinds of teeth . But ob- serve , that his grinding teeth are not such thorough grinders as the cow and the horse have . He ...
... perform the grinding motion . 9. Man eats all kinds of food , or is omnivorous ; he therefore has the various kinds of teeth . But ob- serve , that his grinding teeth are not such thorough grinders as the cow and the horse have . He ...
Page 57
... the air is forced out , and the spaces or air - cells are small . So when expiration is performed by the chest Give the illustration of the bellows . What is expiration ? the air - cells shrink as the air passes out 3 * RESPIRATION . 57.
... the air is forced out , and the spaces or air - cells are small . So when expiration is performed by the chest Give the illustration of the bellows . What is expiration ? the air - cells shrink as the air passes out 3 * RESPIRATION . 57.
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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...