The Study of Medicine, Volume 4Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 - Medicine |
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... sound , taste , and smell , and the seat of general feeling or motivity . The investigations and experiments of Mr. C. Bell , and M. Magendie , to which we shall presently advert , pave the way to some important doctrines in respect to ...
... sound , taste , and smell , and the seat of general feeling or motivity . The investigations and experiments of Mr. C. Bell , and M. Magendie , to which we shall presently advert , pave the way to some important doctrines in respect to ...
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... sound . Fishes are well known to possess a hearing organ , and the skate and shark have the rudiment of an external ear ; but like other fishes they seem chiefly to receive sound by the internal tubule alone . That insects in general ...
... sound . Fishes are well known to possess a hearing organ , and the skate and shark have the rudiment of an external ear ; but like other fishes they seem chiefly to receive sound by the internal tubule alone . That insects in general ...
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... sound . A distinct organ is not always requisite for a distinct sense . In man himself we have already seen this in regard to the sense of touch , which exists Le Règne Animale distribué d'apres son Organization , 4 Tomes . 8vo . Paris ...
... sound . A distinct organ is not always requisite for a distinct sense . In man himself we have already seen this in regard to the sense of touch , which exists Le Règne Animale distribué d'apres son Organization , 4 Tomes . 8vo . Paris ...
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... sounds ? or are we sure Of Berkeley that there is any external world whatever ; any thing and Hume . beyond the intellectual principle that perceives and the sensations and notions that are perceived ; or even any thing beyond those ...
... sounds ? or are we sure Of Berkeley that there is any external world whatever ; any thing and Hume . beyond the intellectual principle that perceives and the sensations and notions that are perceived ; or even any thing beyond those ...
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... sound : it is strictly original in its matter , highly im- portant in its subject , luminous and forcible in its argu- ment , perspicuous in its style , and comprehensive in its scope . It steers equally clear of all former systems : we ...
... sound : it is strictly original in its matter , highly im- portant in its subject , luminous and forcible in its argu- ment , perspicuous in its style , and comprehensive in its scope . It steers equally clear of all former systems : we ...
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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.
Page 170 - I am conscious, and confess Fearless, a soul that does not always think. Me oft has fancy ludicrous and wild Soothed with a waking dream of houses, towers, Trees, churches, and strange visages express'd In the red cinders, while with poring eye I gazed, myself creating what I saw.
Page 53 - Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shape, her features, Seem to be drawn by LOVE'S own hand ; by LOVE Himself in love.
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.
Page 138 - An only son of a weak and indulgent mother was encouraged in the gratification of every caprice and passion of which an untutored and violent temper was susceptible. The impetuosity of his disposition increased with his years. The money with which he was lavishly supplied removed every obstacle to the indulgence of his wild desires. Every instance of opposition or resistance roused him to acts of fury. He assaulted his...
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...
Page 585 - The infusion of tobacco when injected into the intestine, and the upas antiar when applied to a wound, have the power of rendering the heart insensible to the stimulus of the blood, thus stopping the circulation ; in other words, they occasion syncope. 3.
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.