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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Page 72
... vibrate . You can see this vibration , also , if you look into a piano while some one is playing on it , and observe the strings as they are struck by the keys . 40. The air is passing out and in through the chink Describe the apparatus ...
... vibrate . You can see this vibration , also , if you look into a piano while some one is playing on it , and observe the strings as they are struck by the keys . 40. The air is passing out and in through the chink Describe the apparatus ...
Page 168
... vibration or shaking of some substance . You can perceive this vibration in a bell if you touch it after it has been struck . If the bell is quite large you can see as well as feel the vibration . You can see it in the string of a piano ...
... vibration or shaking of some substance . You can perceive this vibration in a bell if you touch it after it has been struck . If the bell is quite large you can see as well as feel the vibration . You can see it in the string of a piano ...
Page 170
... vibration will come to your ear through the water . If you place a watch between your teeth , you hear its ticking quite as dis- tinctly as when you put it to your ear . In this case the vibration goes to the nerve of hearing by the ...
... vibration will come to your ear through the water . If you place a watch between your teeth , you hear its ticking quite as dis- tinctly as when you put it to your ear . In this case the vibration goes to the nerve of hearing by the ...
Page 172
... vibration of the drum over the opening makes this fluid to vibrate or shake . 12. The fine delicate fibres of the nerve of hearing are in the midst of the fluid in the winding passages . They feel the vibration of the fluid there , and ...
... vibration of the drum over the opening makes this fluid to vibrate or shake . 12. The fine delicate fibres of the nerve of hearing are in the midst of the fluid in the winding passages . They feel the vibration of the fluid there , and ...
Page 177
... vibration as when we hear in the common way . There are only three vibrations to follow each other for every sound , viz . , the vibration of the teeth , that of the bones between the teeth and the winding passages of the ear , and that ...
... vibration as when we hear in the common way . There are only three vibrations to follow each other for every sound , viz . , the vibration of the teeth , that of the bones between the teeth and the winding passages of the ear , and that ...
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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...