Medical Extracts: On the Nature of Health, with Practical Observations and the Laws of the Nervous and Fibrous Systems by a Friend to Improvements, Volume 41797 |
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Page 623
... seem to conduct them to this conclufion . The nervous energy appears to them to be moved with prodigious velo- city . Baron de HALLER obferves how often a muscle of any distant part could act in a minute ; and fuppofing that , previous ...
... seem to conduct them to this conclufion . The nervous energy appears to them to be moved with prodigious velo- city . Baron de HALLER obferves how often a muscle of any distant part could act in a minute ; and fuppofing that , previous ...
Page 631
... seems , that the ORGANS of SENSE are com- pofed of minute fibres ; and it is probable that the loco- motive muscles , as well as the vascular ones , of micro- fcopic animals have much greater tenuity than thefe fibres of the retina ...
... seems , that the ORGANS of SENSE are com- pofed of minute fibres ; and it is probable that the loco- motive muscles , as well as the vascular ones , of micro- fcopic animals have much greater tenuity than thefe fibres of the retina ...
Page 640
... seems impoffible , and incomprehenfible , that any mechanical power , any or- ganization of mere matter , could of itself , without di- rection , or art , produce vegetables and animals , all ma- chines of exquifite conftruction , at ...
... seems impoffible , and incomprehenfible , that any mechanical power , any or- ganization of mere matter , could of itself , without di- rection , or art , produce vegetables and animals , all ma- chines of exquifite conftruction , at ...
Page 651
... seems poffible , that any one of good understanding should reject that idea , when once it is suggested . —A purpose , an intention , a design , is evident in every thing ; and when our comprehenfion is so far enlarged as to contemplate ...
... seems poffible , that any one of good understanding should reject that idea , when once it is suggested . —A purpose , an intention , a design , is evident in every thing ; and when our comprehenfion is so far enlarged as to contemplate ...
Page 733
... seems to threaten immediate ruin . It overpowers reafon ; con- founds our ideas ; difterts the appearances , and blackens the colour , of every object . As it swells , it constantly juftifies to our apprehenfions the tumult which it cre ...
... seems to threaten immediate ruin . It overpowers reafon ; con- founds our ideas ; difterts the appearances , and blackens the colour , of every object . As it swells , it constantly juftifies to our apprehenfions the tumult which it cre ...
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