The Philosophy of Health: Or, An Exposition of the Physical and Mental Constitution of Man, with a View to the Promotion of Human Longevity and Happiness, المجلد 1C. Cox, 1847 |
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abdomen action afford albumen aliment animal annorum apparatus artery articulation attached auricle blood body bones brain capable capillaries carpus cartilage cavity cellular clavicle coagulation combined composed condyle consciousness consists constitutes contained convex cranium degree diaphragm distinct elastic endowed existence extended external surface faculty femur fibres fibrin fibula fingers flexor fluid fore-arm function head heart human humerus intervertebral substance joint ligament living lower extremity lung LXIX LXXXII matter membrane ment mode mortality motion muscle called muscular nature nerves nervous object organic organs osseous Ostend particles partly peculiar pelvis performed period physical agents placed plant pleasure portion posterior processes proportion proximate principles radius render respiration ribs scapula selfish sensation sentient serous membrane solid spinal column spinal cord sternum stomach structure superior extremities tendons termed thigh thorax tibia tion tissue triginta trunk ulna ultimate upper veins ventricle vertebræ vessels vital
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الصفحة 65 - fingers, hands, and arms was altered with difficulty, but preserved every form of flexure they acquired: nor were the muscles of the neck exempted from this law, her head maintaining every situation in which the hand could place it, as firmly as her limbs.
الصفحة 65 - scarcely perceptible, operated in rendering the similitude to marble more exact and striking. The position of her fingers, hands, and arms was altered with difficulty, but preserved every form of flexure they acquired: nor were the muscles of the
الصفحة 71 - And now the processes of life at an end, the body falls within the dominion of the powers which preside universally over matter; the tie that linked all its parts together, holding them in union and keeping them in action, in direct opposition to those powers dissolved, it feels and obeys the new
الصفحة 395 - rising and falling a few inches with each pulsation of the heart. In this animal, then, the heart acts with a force capable of maintaining a column of ten feet. Now a column of ten feet indicates a pressure of about four pounds and a half in a square inch of surface. Suppose the human heart to
الصفحة 11 - to open, exalt, and purify their minds, and to fit them for the performance of their duties, as alike degrading to those to whom it affects to show respect, and debasing to the mind that entertains it.
الصفحة 155 - that one of the ultimate forms of animal matter is a coagulable substance, becoming concrete or solid under the process of coagulation. The commencement of organization seems to be the arrangement of this concrete matter into straight thready lines, at first so small as to be imperceptible to the naked eye. Vast numbers of these
الصفحة 72 - primitive elements; these elements, set at liberty, enter into new combinations, and become constituent parts of new beings; those new beings in their turn perish; from their death springs life, and so the changes go on in an everlasting circle.