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... turn by the branch d into the gall - bladder . In what way it is made to take this sharp turn we do not know . After we have eaten a meal , and the chyme begins to be poured from the stomach into the intes- tine , then much bile is ...
... turn by the branch d into the gall - bladder . In what way it is made to take this sharp turn we do not know . After we have eaten a meal , and the chyme begins to be poured from the stomach into the intes- tine , then much bile is ...
Page 40
... turns contracts and enlarges , just as you contract and enlarge the bellows in working them , as you blow the fire . Is the heart in action , or is it at rest , when it dilates ? How are the fibres of the heart arranged ? Give the ...
... turns contracts and enlarges , just as you contract and enlarge the bellows in working them , as you blow the fire . Is the heart in action , or is it at rest , when it dilates ? How are the fibres of the heart arranged ? Give the ...
Page 116
... turn your body one way and another . As you do this , each bone moves with a rotary motion a very little . But as there are twenty - four bones , all these little motions between them together make a considerable twist of the whole ...
... turn your body one way and another . As you do this , each bone moves with a rotary motion a very little . But as there are twenty - four bones , all these little motions between them together make a considerable twist of the whole ...
Page 117
... turn your head to look at the one side or the other . In performing this rotary motion the skull does not move alone , as in the first motion , but it moves together with the first vertebra . The first vertebra in this motion moves on ...
... turn your head to look at the one side or the other . In performing this rotary motion the skull does not move alone , as in the first motion , but it moves together with the first vertebra . The first vertebra in this motion moves on ...
Page 118
... turn the telescope so as to see as far to the one side or to the other as you please . This is like the motion per- formed between the first and second vertebra . FIG . 47 . 18. The vertebræ vary much in different kinds of animals ...
... turn the telescope so as to see as far to the one side or to the other as you please . This is like the motion per- formed between the first and second vertebra . FIG . 47 . 18. The vertebræ vary much in different kinds of animals ...
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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...