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... LARGER WORK BY THE SAME AUTHOR . BY WORTHINGTON HOOKER , M. D. , PROFESSOR OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN YALE COLLEGE ; AUTHOR OF PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT , , " " HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY , " ETC. " " ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS . NEW ...
... LARGER WORK BY THE SAME AUTHOR . BY WORTHINGTON HOOKER , M. D. , PROFESSOR OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN YALE COLLEGE ; AUTHOR OF PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT , , " " HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY , " ETC. " " ILLUSTRATED BY ENGRAVINGS . NEW ...
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... larger work on Physiology , it is adapted for general reading . It will prepare the reader and the scholar for the more full examination of the subject in the larger work . I need hardly say , that in order to teach from this book ...
... larger work on Physiology , it is adapted for general reading . It will prepare the reader and the scholar for the more full examination of the subject in the larger work . I need hardly say , that in order to teach from this book ...
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... larger , and in manhood it is of its full size . But no machine . made by man can grow to be a larger one . Now , the machinery of the body not only grows , but it is kept in use while it is growing . A small telescope never grows to be ...
... larger , and in manhood it is of its full size . But no machine . made by man can grow to be a larger one . Now , the machinery of the body not only grows , but it is kept in use while it is growing . A small telescope never grows to be ...
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... larger than in others . The fat of the body is in cells of this substance , mostly When the cells contain fat they are larger than they usually are . just under the skin . 17. This cellular substance is very yielding , so that the ...
... larger than in others . The fat of the body is in cells of this substance , mostly When the cells contain fat they are larger than they usually are . just under the skin . 17. This cellular substance is very yielding , so that the ...
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... larger . 5. I will make these two 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 ...
... larger . 5. I will make these two 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 ...
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Page 112 - This is one reason also why it is made up of so 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...
Page 169 - It is often produced by the vibration of the air. This is the case in whistling. In the flute it is the vibration of the air in the instrument that produces the sound. And so of other similar instruments. 3. When the vibrations are equal, the sound is a musical one. But when they are irregular, the sound is a noise, that is, a confused sound. 4. Sound passes through the air by vibrations. It may be said to pass by waves in all directions, just as waves go in all directions on the surface of water...
Page 54 - ... supply of impure air afforded by the Yoga exercises, we should aim at a large supply of pure air. How is this to be secured ? The air we breathe goes down into the lungs, which are full of small air cells, somewhat like a sponge. As a sponge is much larger when its cells are filled with water than when dry, so the lungs swell out when their cells are filled with air. How many little air cells are there in the lungs ? About sixty lakhs ! The air after staying a little time in the air cells, goes...