Human Physiology, Statical and Dynamical, Or, The Conditions and Course of the Life of Man

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Harper & Brothers, 1865 - Physiology - 649 pages
 

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Page 558 - De 1'Hospital, one of the greatest mathematicians of the age, to the English who visited him. " I represent him to myself as a celestial genius, entirely disengaged from matter.
Page 28 - Before the discovery of the passage to the East by the Cape of Good Hope, and the...
Page 576 - On this difference of 10 degrees in the facial angle the superior beauty of the European depends ; while that high character of sublime beauty which is so striking in some works of ancient statuary, as in the head of Apollo, and in the Medusa of Sisocles, is given by an angle which amounts to 100 degrees.
Page 282 - ... be carried into a dark place and laid on a piece of hot metal, the spectre of the key will come forth. In the case of bodies more highly phosphorescent than paper, the spectres of many different objects which may have been in succession laid originally thereupon will, on warming, emerge in their proper order.
Page 413 - ... had not been able to form from them the idea of a square and a disc, until he perceived a sensation of what he saw in the points of his fingers, as if he really touched the objects.
Page 407 - I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I endeavored to recall the ideas ; they were feeble and indistinct. One recollection of terms however presented itself, and, with the most intense belief and prophetic manner, I exclaimed to Dr. Kinglake, ' Nothing exists but thoughts ; the universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures, and pains.' " In like manner, the intoxication that arises from alcohol has two distinct stages, depending on entirely...
Page 563 - ... placed near the solitary den of the Bushman, where the lean and hungry savage crouches in silence like a beast of prey...
Page 583 - ... in which the same metal abounds. I believe, therefore, that the coloration of the skin, whatever the particular tint may be, tawny-yellow, olive-red, or black, is connected with the manner in which the liver is discharging its function. That deposits of black pigment can normally arise in the way of a true secretion by cell action, is satisfactorily proved by their occurrence in angular and ramified patches in the skin of such animals as the frog ; and that hcomatin, in its degeneration, may...
Page 576 - ... found to exist between different nations ; and it might be concluded that Nature has availed herself, at the same time, of this angle to mark out the diversities of the animal kingdom, and to establish a sort of scale from the inferior tribes up to the most beautiful forms which are found in the human species. Thus it will be found that the heads of birds display the smallest angle, and that it always becomes of greater extent in proportion as the animal approaches more nearly to the human figure....
Page 160 - Connection be- after the fullest inspiration" bears a singular relation to the tiMum"^1™ height of the individual, as was discovered by Dr. Hutchheight, inson. " For every inch of stature from five to six feet, eight additional cubic inches of air at 60° Fahr. may be thus given out.

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