Scenes in the Practice of a New York Surgeon, المجلد 3DeWitt & Davenport, 1855 - 407 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 42
... living and independent creature , under the influence of its nerves , per- forms its voluntary and appropriate actions . We feel that all our reliable investigations into the nature of the nerve power , can only commence in the second ...
... living and independent creature , under the influence of its nerves , per- forms its voluntary and appropriate actions . We feel that all our reliable investigations into the nature of the nerve power , can only commence in the second ...
الصفحة 43
... living animal , still there is one experi- ment that would seem conclusively to prove that electricity is not the sole power that governs our bodies . When a liga- ture is tightly drawn around a nerve , its functions , as a conductor of ...
... living animal , still there is one experi- ment that would seem conclusively to prove that electricity is not the sole power that governs our bodies . When a liga- ture is tightly drawn around a nerve , its functions , as a conductor of ...
الصفحة 46
... living body , the energy of muscular contraction is determined by the supply of arterial blood which the muscle receives . It is well known that when a ligature is applied to a large artery in the human subject , there is not only the ...
... living body , the energy of muscular contraction is determined by the supply of arterial blood which the muscle receives . It is well known that when a ligature is applied to a large artery in the human subject , there is not only the ...
الصفحة 56
... living in imagi- nation in a world of an entirely different sort . The world of fiction is as far off the world of fact as Jupiter is from our planet . Now , those who thus artificially stimulate their minds and feelings ...
... living in imagi- nation in a world of an entirely different sort . The world of fiction is as far off the world of fact as Jupiter is from our planet . Now , those who thus artificially stimulate their minds and feelings ...
الصفحة 57
... living on tolerably substantial food , do little or nothing with her brain , except receive a succession of pleasing sensations , which require a very slight expenditure of the caloric of the blood , com- monly called " nervous fluid ...
... living on tolerably substantial food , do little or nothing with her brain , except receive a succession of pleasing sensations , which require a very slight expenditure of the caloric of the blood , com- monly called " nervous fluid ...
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الصفحة 378 - David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
الصفحة 379 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth...
الصفحة xv - Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
الصفحة 396 - Oft did the cliffs reverberate the sound Of parted fragments tumbling from on high; And from the summit of that craggy mound The perching eagle oft was heard to cry, Or on resounding wings to shoot athwart the sky.
الصفحة 128 - Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit shall be hewn down, and cast into the fire.
الصفحة 323 - Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. Sleep, my babe; thy food and raiment, House and home, thy friends provide; All without thy care or payment, All thy wants are well supplied. How much better thou'rt attended Than the Son of God could be, When from Heaven He descended, And became a child like thee! Soft and easy is thy cradle: Coarse...
الصفحة 124 - Jesus can make a dying bed Feel soft as downy pillows are, While on his breast I lean my head, And breathe my life out sweetly there.
الصفحة 137 - ... than the four elements, and as God permits them. Wherefore, of these sublunary devils, though others divide them otherwise according to their several places and offices, Psellus makes six kinds, fiery, aerial, terrestrial, watery, and subterranean devils, besides those fairies, satyrs, nymphs, &c. Fiery spirits or devils are such as commonly work by blazing stars, firedrakes, or ignes fatui, which lead men often in flumina, out pr&cipitia, saith Bodine (lib.
الصفحة 157 - If a person spits blood who has received no injury to the chest, in whom the uterine functions are healthy and right, and who has no disease of the heart, the odds that there are tubercles in the lungs of that person are fearfully high.
الصفحة 42 - When a ligature is applied to a large arterial trunk in the human body, there is not only a deficiency of sensibility in the surface, but also a partial or complete suspension of muscular power, until the collateral circulation is freely established.