The Study of Medicine, Volume 4J. and J. Harper, 1829 - Medicine |
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... spinal marrow ; which may hence be regarded as a continuation of the brain communicating with its different parts by the aid of numerous commissures , the querbänder of the German writers , and extended through the whole chain of the ...
... spinal marrow ; which may hence be regarded as a continuation of the brain communicating with its different parts by the aid of numerous commissures , the querbänder of the German writers , and extended through the whole chain of the ...
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... spinal marrow . marrow the brain , or the brain We have thus far represented the spinal marrow as Whether the spinal issuing from the brain , in conformity with the general doctrine that has hitherto been held upon the subject . issues ...
... spinal marrow . marrow the brain , or the brain We have thus far represented the spinal marrow as Whether the spinal issuing from the brain , in conformity with the general doctrine that has hitherto been held upon the subject . issues ...
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... spinal marrow alone in acephalous monsters , and of a nervous chord without a brain , answer- its ramifica- ing the purpose of a spinal marrow , in most invertebral animals . Whence it is inferred , that the nervous column is the ...
... spinal marrow alone in acephalous monsters , and of a nervous chord without a brain , answer- its ramifica- ing the purpose of a spinal marrow , in most invertebral animals . Whence it is inferred , that the nervous column is the ...
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... vertebral influence . It is of the brain , connected both with the brain and spinal marrow , and its ramifica may be said to arise from either . Admitting the brain to be its source , it is an offset from the sixth pair of nerves , on ...
... vertebral influence . It is of the brain , connected both with the brain and spinal marrow , and its ramifica may be said to arise from either . Admitting the brain to be its source , it is an offset from the sixth pair of nerves , on ...
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... spinal marrow itself . tions and substitutes . Nervous animals . Possess a nervous chord pro- It is not , therefore , to be wondered at that animals of a structure in still lower description , and without a vertebral column , in vertebral ...
... spinal marrow itself . tions and substitutes . Nervous animals . Possess a nervous chord pro- It is not , therefore , to be wondered at that animals of a structure in still lower description , and without a vertebral column , in vertebral ...
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action affected afterwards amaurosis animal antispasmodics apoplexy appears arteries atony bleeding blood body brain Carus cataract cerebellum chiefly chorea CLASS clonic Clonus cold common consequence constitution convulsions cornea costiveness Cullen cure debility degree dependent disease distinct doses Ecphronia employed Entasia epilepsy exciting cause external faculties fibres fluid frequently GEN.VIII genus habit heart hemiplegia hence hydrophobia hypochondrias ideas inflammation insanity instances irregular irritation kind less limbs lyssa Medical medicine ment mental mind morbid motion muscles muscular nature nerves nervous system nosologists Nosology objects occasionally organs pain palpitation palsy Paropsis paroxysm passion patient peculiar persons poison present produced pupil rabies remedy retina Sauvages seems sensation sense sensibility sensorial power singular sleep sometimes spasm spasmodic spastic SPEC species SPECIES II spinal marrow stimulants stomach strabismus symptoms Syspasia term tetanus tion tonics Trans treatment trismus variety various VIII violent vitreous humour writers
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Page 84 - And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason.
Page 69 - 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...
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...
Page 557 - Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy ; Which with the heart there cools and ne'er returneth To blush and beautify the cheek again. But see, his face is black and full of blood. His eye-balls further out than when he lived, Staring full ghastly like a strangled man ; His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd with struggling ; His hands abroad display'd, as one that grasp'd And tugg'd for life and was by strength subdued...
Page 239 - 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 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 appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Page 166 - The sooty films, that play upon the bars Pendulous, and foreboding in the view Of superstition, prophesying still, Though still deceived, some stranger's near approach.
Page 84 - ... 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 misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
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 most facetious companions in the University.
Page 30 - On laying bare the roots of the spinal nerves, I found that I could cut across the posterior fasciculus of nerves, which took its origin from the posterior portion of the spinal marrow without convulsing the muscles of the back; but that on touching the anterior fasciculus with the point of the knife, the muscles of the back were immediately convulsed.