The Study of Medicine, Volume 4Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 - Medicine |
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... present day that is free from it : and we have hence an incontroverti- ble proof that it existed as a doctrine of general belief at a time when mankind , few in number , formed a com- mon family , and were regulated by common notions ...
... present day that is free from it : and we have hence an incontroverti- ble proof that it existed as a doctrine of general belief at a time when mankind , few in number , formed a com- mon family , and were regulated by common notions ...
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... present it is suspicion and nothing more . In the insect tribes , we have much reason for believing such a sense to reside in the antennas or in the tentacles ; whence the former of these are denominated by the Ger- man naturalists ...
... present it is suspicion and nothing more . In the insect tribes , we have much reason for believing such a sense to reside in the antennas or in the tentacles ; whence the former of these are denominated by the Ger- man naturalists ...
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... present , we must confine ourselves to their actuating principle , whatever that may consist in . Oxygene was at this time the popular aura of the phi- La- losophers , as caloric had been a short time before . voisier had just proved ...
... present , we must confine ourselves to their actuating principle , whatever that may consist in . Oxygene was at this time the popular aura of the phi- La- losophers , as caloric had been a short time before . voisier had just proved ...
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... present itself , in the different classes of animals , under various scales of elaboration ; but in every scale to be a secernent nent organ : organ through its entire range ; operating by means of two or more different sets of fibres ...
... present itself , in the different classes of animals , under various scales of elaboration ; but in every scale to be a secernent nent organ : organ through its entire range ; operating by means of two or more different sets of fibres ...
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... present . “ It is more than probable , " says he , " that what may be called organs of sense ( local organs ) have particular nerves whose mode of action • De Hippocr . et Plat . Decret . Lib . 1. Tom . 1. p . 921 . is different from ...
... present . “ It is more than probable , " says he , " that what may be called organs of sense ( local organs ) have particular nerves whose mode of action • De Hippocr . et Plat . Decret . Lib . 1. Tom . 1. p . 921 . is different from ...
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Page 83 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 85 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
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Page 68 - When we set before our eyes a round globe of any uniform colour, vg, gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that the idea thereby imprinted in our mind is of a flat circle variously shadowed, with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex...
Page 233 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
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Page 68 - ... with several degrees of light and brightness coming to our eyes. But we having by use been accustomed to perceive what kind of appearance convex bodies are wont to make in us, what alterations are made in the reflections of light by the difference of the sensible figures of bodies, the judgment presently, by an habitual custom, alters the appearances into their causes ; So that from that which...
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Page 90 - he composed this book .with a view of relieving his own melancholy, but increased it to such a degree, that nothing could make him laugh but going to the bridge foot and hearing the ribaldry of the bargemen, which rarely failed to throw him into a violent fit of laughter. Before he was overcome with this horrid disorder, he in the intervals of his vapours was esteemed one of the mpst facetious companions in the university.